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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Eastern Chad is a powder keg with potential to destabilise the entire country as well as neighbouring states and worsen the already dire humanitarian situation. Local conflicts based on resource scarcity have been exacerbated by national and regional political manipulation. The population has already suffered enormously, from the domestic Chadian disputes, the Darfur crisis and the proxy war between...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Activists in the southern province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, have urged the authorities to try to return shegues, or street children, currently in care to their parents.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The top humanitarian official in Chad called for urgent attention to be paid to providing a better life for young men and women languishing in camps for refugees and displaced persons, warning that the alternatives for them would be prostitution or violence.
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CICR (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
N'Djamena/Geneva (ICRC) – An expatriate staff member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was abducted by several armed men last night in the village of Kawa, in eastern Chad, near the border with Sudan.
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Executed Today (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
On this date in 2003, seven Chadians were shot in the capital of N’Djamena, with an eighth in the eastern city of Abeche. (A ninth would be executed three days later.) Chad’s first known judicial executions since 1991 came as a shock to observers; the country had publicly mooted death penalty abolition earlier that very year. It [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Landmines and armed attacks in Senegal's Casamance region are preventing farmers from maximizing production from the region's fertile soil, but there is another problem, too: not enough young people are taking up farming, residents and experts say.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Visiting Chadian leader, Idriss Deby Itno, left the airport yesterday amidst airs of satisfaction and hope for a deepened bi-lateral relation.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
On the invitation of President Paul Biya, his counterpart from the Republic of Chad, Idriss Deby Itno paid a two-day official visit to Cameroon that ended yesterday October 29. Such a summit meeting between the leaders of Cameroon and Chad cannot be under estimated. It is not just the bond of friendship that both leaders share, but the multifaceted regional and sub-regional engagements that condition...
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Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Appointed in December 2008 by the President Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian envoy Mikhail Margelov speaks fluent Arabic. His appointment signals the desire of the Russian government to play a greater role in Sudan which has good economic and military ties with Moscow. From Sudan Radio Service , 22 October 2009: Russian Envoy Holds Talks With JEM in Chad (London) - The Russian envoy to Sudan, Mikhail Margelov,...
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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
During the period under review, the Government of Chad and the political opposition made some progress in the implementation of the agreement of 13 August 2007. The general population census was completed on 30 June. The data, which is a precondition for voter registration and constituency delimitation, was released on 13 October. The results have been accepted by the parties to the agreement of 13...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The Obama administration on Sunday welcomed recent talks between the governments of Chad and Sudan, urging the two countries to take "meaningful and concrete steps" to promote regional security. A delegation led by Ghazi Salahadin, special advisor to Sudanese President, recently visited the Chadian capital of N'Djamena and held talks with President Idriss Deby Itno and Foreign Minister Moussa...
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Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
A 17-member official Sudanese delegation was visiting Switzerland, in a mission to learn about federalism. "We are learning how the system works and whether it can help us in Sudan with out diversities as well," said John Ukec Lueth Ukec, Sudan's ambassador to Switzerland. Switzerland, with four language groups, religious divides and other difference between regions, has prided itself on...
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Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
On August 21, 2009 China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) President Jiang Jiemin and Chad's oil and mineral resources minister Mahamat Hassan Nasser signed a memorandum of understanding on appling for preferential export buyer's credit for the Sino-Chadian joint venture N'Djamena Refinery. Representatives of the two parties also signed a supplementary agreement of the joint-venture agreement and...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
In continuation of its expansion drive across the continent and following the approval of the financial sector regulatory authorities in that country, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has commenced full scale banking operations in the Republic of Chad.
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