Full Coverage: Chad

07.05.2008 NGO representatives in Chad are mourning the killing by bandits of Pascal Marlinge, the country director of Save the Children UK.

05.03.2008 Chad ranks near the bottom of almost every world league table, poor, corrupt and lawless – and now under direct attack by rebels operating out of a base in Darfur in an invasion co-ordinated by Sudan, says Gérard Prunier.

28.02.2008 Violence incited by a taxi strike against high fuel prices in Douala, a major city in Cameroon, is spreading to other parts of the country, including the capital, Yaoundé.

27.02.2008 Two members of the Chadian opposition have been seized by state security services in a government crackdown on political competition following an attempted coup, writes an international human rights monitor.

14.02.2008 Given the tumultuous security situation in Chad and the Sudanese government's large-scale attack on three towns in West Darfur, the largest U.S. organization working on African affairs is calling for a "sustained, wide-ranging international engagement [in Sudan] at the highest levels."

12.02.2008 Many aid workers are leaving Chad given the recent escalation of fighting between rebels and the government, but, for now, most of the 500,000 refugees and displaced people in eastern Chad will continue to receive "at least minimal [humanitarian] assistance."

05.02.2008 A UN news service details the current situation in Chad and explains how events of the last two years led to this weekend's attempted coup.

30.01.2008 Chadian President Idriss Deby has affirmed that nearly half of the 180,000 displaced people in Chad will return to their homes by July. Local and UN officials believe this may be possible if security requirements are met.

26.12.2007 Six French aid workers have been sentenced to eight years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African children, who they said were Darfuri orphans.
From Earth Times

05.11.2007 Chad's release of two French journalists arrested in a controversy over an attempt to transport 103 African children to France has been welcomed by international media organisations.

30.10.2007 Three French journalists have been charged in Chad with kidnapping minors and fraud for covering the alleged attempt by Arche de Zoé (Zoé’s Ark) to evacuate 103 African children to France.

29.10.2007 Spain and France have sent diplomats to Chad where 16 of their nationals are still under arrest accused of child trafficking after being caught on Thursday trying to fly 103 young children out of the country to France.
From: EuroNews

27.10.2007 The UN Children's Fund has criticised an attempt to separate more than 100 young Chadian children from their parents and take them to France for adoption as “illegal and totally irresponsible".

29.08.2007 A beautiful photo essay speaks to the importance of education, both as an enjoyable sanctuary for children in crisis situations and as a means to end the cycles of violence and poverty that engulf their lives.

08.08.2007 Daratt (Dry Season) is the antithesis of Western film-making. It is slow, spare, measured, full of silences and ambiguities - and it's gripping.

29.07.2007 Daratt (Dry Season) is the antithesis of Western film-making. Set in Chad after the country's lengthy civil war, it is slow, spare, measured, full of silences and ambiguities.

17.07.2007 Despite a May promise to release underage fighters from military service, the Chadian government continues to use and recruit child soldiers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday.
From: Human Rights Watch

08.06.2007 Intense political focus on Darfur that bears little relation to reality on the ground is hindering aid to 150,000 internally displaced people in eastern Chad, warns a leading medical charity.

24.05.2007 Leading UK aid charities launched an emergency appeal today to save lives in Darfur, Chad and the Central African Republic.

21.05.2007 DENVER, May 21 (OneWorld) - Thousands of children in the African nations of Chad and the Central African Republic could be turning from the battlefield to the blackboard as a result of international negotiations over the past two weeks.