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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A follow up committee that supervised the project presented its end-of-mandate report to stakeholders yesterday.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Three years after asking Senegal to prosecute the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, the African Union should ensure that the trial finally begins to move forward, eight African and international human rights groups said today. African heads of state will come together in Sirte, Libya on July 1, 2009, for an AU summit.
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UNHCR (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
UNHCR begins a programme to resettle 1,800 refugees in Chad to the United States, with a first group of 11 flying out of N'Djamena at the weekend.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
As part of a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) programme, the first group of refugees has left Chad to begin new lives in the United States.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Nearly two hundred thousand local people fled their homes when armed militias began to devastate eastern Chad in late 2005. Now, as conditions improve, some are trying to return home. Many find their land has been seized. Others are forced to join one of the paramilitary groups that still roam the countryside. Some face death. "Many of those people who attacked us are still there," one of...
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i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
A former child soldier following literacy lessons at a transit and orientation centre in N'Djamena The Government of Chad today released to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 84 child soldiers who had been captured with rebel units last month, the agency announced.This brings to 555 the number of child soldiers turned over to UNICEF since 2007, when the agency and the Government signed...
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The centre due to open on Wednesday (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
Sort by date with duplicates included. New bill would let terror victims sue rogue states. Libya confirms to buy all of Verenex. Amnesty Int l Report on Libya Proves the Futility of US, EU. Plans by state owned power equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd Bhel to secure new Sunkist elementary school in Iraq and Libya have run into trouble because. Obama speaks in Cairo Live blog. But he cautioned...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Pope Benedict XVI has created a new Apostolic Vicariate in Mongo and appointed the first Apostolic Vicar.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
A report by the United Nations that the Sudanese Air Force bombed northeastern Chad near a refugee camp has sparked strong condemnation from the Save Darfur Coalition (SDC) following military and paramilitary attacks over the past week.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
Some 110,000 Sudanese refugees over the age of 18 in eastern Chad will receive identity cards under a new programme launched with the support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Darfuri women who have fled as refugees to Chad live in fear of being raped and as a result ostracized by their families, says a new study.
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
From BBC: The UN is working to release more than 80 child soldiers taken prisoner by the Chad army during fighting with rebels. The children were seized from the rebel Union of Resistance Forces (UFR) group, the UN children's fund (Unicef) says. The UFR mounted a failed attack in the east of Chad early in May which led to troops capturing many prisoners. On Wednesday, Unicef staff finally began interviewing...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has published a report documenting the scope and long-term impact of rape and other sexual violence experienced by women who fled attacks on their villages in Darfur and are now refugees in neighboring Chad.
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Libyaonline.com (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
Libyan leader and African Union chairman Muammar Gaddafi appealed to the leaders of Chad and Sudan on Friday to settle an armed standoff along their shared border.Khartoum says Chad is harbouring rebel fighters from the Sudanese region of Darfur, while Chad has acknowledged it launched air attacks on camps inside Sudan it says are used by rebels opposed to its rule.Gaddafi, who holds the rotating chairmanship...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
Newly elected Pan African Parliament (PAP) President Moussa Ndele Indris has promised to redouble the institution's efforts of strengthening democracy in Africa.