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.

01.04.2008 Euroopan unionia arvostellaan Tshadin-operaatiostaan. Arvostelijoiden mukaan EU:n Tshadiin lähettämät ranskalaisvoittoiset Eufor-joukot sekoitetaan helposti niihin Ranskan joukkoihin, jotka ovat maassa hallituksen tukena.

07.03.2008 Europarlamentin käsittelyyn on piakkoin tulossa päätöslauselmaesitys, jossa vaaditaan asekauppasääntöjen muuntamista sitoviksi lain edessä. Lisäksi parlamentti vaatii ministerineuvostolta selitystä jäsenmaiden asekaupoista Tshadiin. Maa kärsii hallituksen ja kapinallisten välisestä väkivallasta.

06.03.2008 Tšadin kuumentuneen sisällissodan juuret ovat Darfurissa. Kansainväliseksi laajentuneessa konfliktissa Sudanin ja Tšadin hallitukset ovat kumpikin sekaantuneet toistensa sisäisiin levottomuuksiin.

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.

25.02.2008 Suomi osallistuu kriisinhallintaoperaatioon auttaakseen Sudanista tulleita pakolaisia Tshadissa. Samaan aikaan Tshadin hallitus jatkaa kovien otteiden käyttämistä nujertaakseen vastustajansa. Tshadilainen oppositiojohtaja pelkää, että maa voi valtataistelun vuoksi kadota kartalta, naapuriensa jakamana.

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."

07.02.2008 Viimeaikaisten levottomuuksien repimässä Tshadissa on jo ennestään noin 180 000 tshadilaista evakkoa ja 300 000 sudanilaista sekä keskiafrikkalaista pakolaista. Maan humanitaarisen avun tarve lisääntynee, arvioi Kirkon Ulkomaanapu, joka jatkaa työtään Itä-Tshadin Koukoun alueella levottomuuksista huolimatta.

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.

04.02.2008 I ribelli del Ciad hanno lasciato la scorsa notte la capitale n'Djamena "per offrire alla popolazione la possibilità di scappare": le strade della città sono pattugliate dai militari, dopo i duri scontri di ieri, che hanno visto le forze governative far intervenire elicotteri e carrarmati rompere l'assedio al Palazzo Presidenziale. Il Segretario generale dell'Onu è "profondamente allarmato per la situazione pericolosa in Ciad" ed ha espresso particolare preoccupazione per il "deteriorarsi della già grave situazione umanitaria dei 285.000 rifugiati e di 180.000 sfollati interni che si trovano nel Ciad orientale". Il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'Onu si riunirà in una sessione d'urgenza per discutere la situazione. Rinviata la missione Eufor Ciad-Rca, rimane da vedere se la Francia deciderà di intervenire a sostegno del regime o lasciare gli eventi fare il loro corso.

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

13.11.2007 Ranskalaisen Zoén arkki -nimisen järjestön työntekijöitä pidätettiin Tšadissa epäiltynä 103 lapsen sieppaamisesta ja yrityksestä lennättää heidät Ranskaan.

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".