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A man thought to be a Chadian soldier shot at two French soldiers as they left a military base near the capital N'Djamena on Wednesday, injuring one troop in the elbow, officials said. "The two French soldiers left their base in a vehicle," a French embassy official in Chad told AFP. "As they were about to take a main road,
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Mao — Late Chadian government recognition of a food crisis, a slow build-up from aid agencies, and severe pipeline constraints due to closed Libyan and Nigerian borders mean food aid has not yet arrived in Chad, despite many thousands of people having already run out of food. Residents of Eri Toukoul village in Kanem Region, western Chad, told IRIN they
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About 13 million people living in west and central Africa face a major food crisis unless immediate action is taken, humanitarian group Oxfam warned Thursday. A dangerous combination of drought, high food prices, reduced harvests, poverty and conflict are driving an emerging crisis across several nations including Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and northern Senegal, the group said. In
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The Chadian president's office on Thursday announced it would send meat and medical supplies to the Republic of Congo, where explosions in an arms depot killed almost 200 people. "The Chadian minister of foreign affairs, Moussa Faki Mahamat, (on Wednesday) took 200 sheep carcasses and 50 beef carcasses for the use of the Congolese government. He also handed over the
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has set public hearings for March in a case that has pitted Senegal against Belgium over the extradition of former Chadian president Hissene Habré. Belgium, under the principal of universal jurisdiction, wants to try the former leader for alleged atrocities he committed while in power from 1982 to 1990. The country
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Chad Monday announced it was reopening a major oil refinery it had earlier ordered shut because of a price dispute with its Chinese part-owners. "To help negotiations which are to continue, we have decided to reopen the refinery," Justice Minister Abdoulaye Sabre Fadoul said on public radio. The Djarmaya refinery, ordered closed on January 19, is located 40 kilometres (25
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The United Nations has allocated $6m for urgent food aid to Chad, where 127 000 children are suffering acute malnutrition, its office for humanitarian co-ordination said on Wednesday. Besides the children, the money would also help some 4.5 million other people in the country of 11 million who do not know where their next meal will come from, in 10
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Chad's main opposition parties announced Monday they had formed a broad alliance to challenge President Idriss Deby Itno's ruling party in the central African state's first local polls. Sixteen of Chad's main opposition parties -- grouped under the Coordination of Political Parties for the Defence of the Constitution (CPDC) umbrella -- will field joint candidates in the January 22 election.
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Khartoum — The Chadian president Idriss Deby is now engaged to the daughter of the notorious Darfuri Janjaweed leader Musa Hilal, according to a news report. The privately-owned al-Sudani newspaper said that Deby got engaged to Amani Musa Hilal during his most recent visit to Sudan, which took place last month. "Africa Alyom" newspaper, quoting informed Chadian sources, said that
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Khartoum — Chadian President Idris Deby said today that bilateral relations with the neighbouring Sudan are strategic stressing that time has come for peace in Darfur. Deby arrived Monday to the Sudanese capital where he was received by President Omer al-Bashir at in Khartoum Airport. The atmosphere of good relations dominated their reunion reminding the years of close brotherhood between
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The west and central Africa region is facing one of the worst cholera epidemics in its history, with over 85,000 cases reported leading to 2,466 deaths this year, the UN children's agency warned Tuesday. "The size and scale of the outbreaks means the region is facing one of the biggest epidemics in its history," said a UNICEF spokeswoman. "The most
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Kigali — Contrary to media reports that Rwanda proposed the prosecution of embattled former Chad president, Hissène Habré, it is the African Union (AU), which instead requested the former to come in after Senegal declined, the Minister of Justice, Tharcisse Karugarama, told The New Times on Sunday.
"The fact is that Rwanda has never requested to
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The decision to give the Right Livelihood Award to Jacqueline Moudeïna, the lawyer for the victims of the exiled former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, highlights the victims' 20-year quest to bring Habré to justice, Human Rights Watch said today.
The award, announced on September 29, 2011, in Stockholm, cited Moudeïna, "for her tireless efforts at
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Chad today called for continued international aid to carry out the tasks it has taken over from a United Nations peacekeeping force to protect hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), as well as in dealing with the influx of Chadians fleeing Libya.
"On this point the Government is aware that this task
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N'Djamena - Chad on Saturday "categorically denied" claims that it tortured a late rebel leader while he was in prison.
Chad's ANCD rebel group last week issued a statement claiming that their military commander Djibrine Azene, who was arrested in August of last year but pardoned in January, died from health complications related to torture.
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Libreville - A Chad rebel group said on Thursday that its military commander, who was arrested last year but pardoned in January, died from health complications related to the torture he suffered in prison.
The ANCD rebel group issued a statement saying Djibrine Azene died in his home village on Tuesday.
The group,
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Idriss Deby Itno vowed he would battle corruption as he was sworn in as president of Chad for a new five-year term on Monday, extending a rule which already stretches back more than two decades.
"There will be no pardon for people who misappropriate public funds", said Deby at the ceremony in the capital N'Djamena.
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Hundreds of stranded Chadian migrants have been airlifted home from southern Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in Geneva on 2 August.
"The operation, which ended on 30 July, provided evacuation assistance to 1,398 vulnerable Chadian migrants and other third-country nationals, including many women, children and [the] elderly, who fled areas around Tripoli, Misrata,
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Chad said on Friday it backed sending former dictator Hissene Habre for trial in Belgium, just weeks after an abortive bid by Senegal to fly him back to his home country.
A statement from Chad's junior foreign minister Mahamat Bechir Okoromi said the country favoured sending Habre for trial in Belgium, in accordance with one option
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Hissene Habre, the former dictator of Chad who faces forcible repatriation there after years of exile in Senegal, denounced what he called a "kidnapping" his lawyer said Saturday.
Habre had reacted with "astonishment and surprise" to the Senegalese government's decision to send him back to the country he once ruled, said El Hadji Diouf, one of his Senegalese
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Chad on Wednesday signalled readiness to negotiate the French military presence on its soil after France's foreign minister said Paris was mulling a troop withdrawal from its former central African colony.
"Chad is prepared to begin negotiations with French authorities as early as next week on the presence of Operation Epervier (Sparrowhawk)," a senior ministry official
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BANGUI (AFP) – A Chad rebel group has signed a peace accord with the government, paving the way for it to return home after setting up in Central African Republic around three years ago, officials said Tuesday.
The accord between a Chad mediator and the leader of the rebel Popular Front for Reconstruction (FPR) was signed
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Human rights bodies Thursday accused Senegal of delaying justice for Chad's ex-president Hissene Habre and demanded it extradite him to Belgium to stand trial for alleged atrocities under his rule.
"Today, the last chance to obtain justice for the mass crimes of which Habre is accused is his extradition to Belgium," a coalition of his alleged
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Chad's Constitutional Council on Saturday confirmed the re-election of incumbent President Idriss Deby Itno with 83.59 percent of the vote in the first round of elections held on April 25.
Chad's incumbent president, Idriss Deby, has been returned to power in an election boycotted by the opposition, according to preliminary results published by the country's election commission.
Radio France Internationale reports that the commission said Deby won the April 25 presidential election with 88.66 percent of the vote - preparing the way for him to serve
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