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Chad is a landlocked country in one of Africa's most unstable regions, its history a litany of military coups, foreign incursions and brutal dictatorship. Gold, uranium, and more recently, oil, are sources of wealth for the government, which is ranked as one of the world's most corrupt. Among the population, poverty is severe.
Tensions have been rising between Chad and Sudan, which share a porous border along the war-ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur. Chad has accused Sudan of arming rebels seeking to overthrow the president, Idriss Déby, who has ruled Chad since he took over in a military putsch in 1990.
Sudan, meanwhile, has accused Chad of harboring and helping the Sudanese rebels who have been fighting the government and its allied militias in Darfur. Darfur rebels, many of whose leaders share clan links with Mr. Déby, have operated with complete freedom in the vast, arid borderlands between the countries.
United Nations officials are worried that current instability in the form of rebel attacks in Chad's capital, Ndjamena, could threaten major relief efforts elsewhere in the country. Chad has become a temporary home to nearly a quarter of a million refugees from the conflict in Darfur, and tens of thousands more refugees from the Central African Republic; more than 200,000 citizens have been internally displaced.
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11/22/2011 08:00 AM
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Rare Krypton 81 Isotope Helps Track Water in Ancient Nubian Aquifer
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 Krypton 81 allows researchers to reach back a million years to study one of the world’s oldest aquifers.
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07/11/2011 08:00 AM
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No Extradition for Chad Leader
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Senegal on Sunday suspended a decision to send Hissène Habré, the former Chad leader, back home to face trial for crimes committed while he was in power in the 1980s.
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04/13/2011 08:00 AM
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Directs ‘A Screaming Man’ - Review
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 “A Screaming Man,” by the Chadian-born filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, is a tender story about an individual at the intersection of the personal and the political.
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10/29/2010 08:00 AM
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4 Nations With Child Soldiers Keep U.S. Aid
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 The Obama administration is allowing military aid to continue to four countries, issuing a waiver of the 2008 law, the Child Soldiers Prevention Act.
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02/25/2010 08:00 AM
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Regional Shift Helps Darfur, Amid Doubts
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The preliminary peace treaty signed on Tuesday night between the rebel movement in Darfur and the Sudanese government could help bring Darfur’s sputtering conflict to an end, Sudan observers say.
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02/21/2010 08:00 AM
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Darfur Rebels Agree to Truce With Sudan
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The rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, said the agreement reached was not a final peace deal but set out the terms for negotiations.
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02/07/2010 08:00 AM
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Nelson Mandela’s Captive Audience: Ray of Light
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Mr. Mandela showed a survivor in Chad that prison can strengthen a man.
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12/16/2009 08:00 AM
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Chad Uses Air Support to Fight Rebels
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Chadian armed forces called in air support during clashes with rebels in the east of the country, the first such fighting since May, both sides confirmed Tuesday.
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05/30/2009 08:00 AM
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Holding On to Our Humanity
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The tendency to draw an impenetrable psychic curtain across the worst that the world has to offer is understandable. But it’s a tendency that must be fought.
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05/18/2009 08:00 AM
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Chad Says It Hit Rebels in Air Raids Inside Sudan
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Chad and Sudan have long traded accusations of backing each others’ rebels, who have waged offensives along the border of the two nations.
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03/17/2009 07:00 AM
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Europeans Transfer Chad Mission to U.N.
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 In a ceremony attended by the French foreign minister, European politicians and U.N. officials, the Europeans transferred command of its peacekeeping mission in Chad to the United Nations.
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02/26/2009 08:00 AM
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Africa’s ‘Obama’ School
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Darfur refugees hope that the Obama administration can help bring an end of the long slaughter in Sudan by backing an arrest warrant for the country’s president.
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