In Chad, Better the Devil You Know?
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As Sudan-backed rebels march on capital, the West faces a dilemma: Either back a repressive regime, or allow a victory for the tormentors of Darfur
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Rarely in Africa has the human cost of war and greed been clearer than in this dingy, broken, sweltering corner of hell. Yet nowhere has the expectation of change created so much hope.
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N'DJAMENA  - From landmark speeches made at independence to recordings of beloved musicians long since dead, Chad lost historic audio archives in the looting frenzy that accompanied a rebel assault on its capital this month.
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N'DJAMENA  - The leader of a French aid group accused of trying to kidnap 103 African children in Chad told a court on Friday France's government had known from the start about the group's plans to rescue war orphans from Darfur.
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N'DJAMENA  - In an anonymous compound in Chad's capital N'Djamena, young boys clad in matching shirts play volleyball, shrieking and clapping with delight.
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The clash that nearly toppled Chadâs government has heightened tensions with Sudan, threatening to pull the neighbors deeper into each otherâs problems.
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Chadian rebels from the Union of Forces for Development and Democracy (UFDD) launched a new offensive in the far east of the country, bordering Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, French and Chadian officials said.
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N'DJAMENA  - A Chadian rebel column rumbled westwards toward the capital N'Djamena on Sunday just hours after the army retook the eastern town of Abeche, a French diplomat said.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad government forces fought on Saturday with rebels around the eastern town of Abeche after the insurgents launched a fresh attack in their campaign against President Idriss Deby, the defense minister said.
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âBefore the Devil Knows Youâre Deadâ is a chronicle of destruction â physical, spiritual and moral.
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Violence in Chad could turn into a genocide, the UN says, as the country signs a peace pact with its neighbours.
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The border region between Chad and Sudan must be one of the harshest and most remote environments on earth. There is no ideal place to have a refugee crisis, of course, but as locations go this is surely among the worst.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad is extending for six months a state of emergency in large swathes of the country, saying it needs more time to pacify ethnic conflicts that have killed hundreds and which it blames Sudan for provoking.
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They have escaped to the camps of Chad with their lives, but, for the refugees from Sudan, rape and violence stalk their days and haunt their nights.
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N'DJAMENA  - Charles de Gaulle Avenue, the Chadian capital's main business street, bears the scars of war.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 7 -- Tens of thousands of Chadians who fled fighting last weekend remained hunkered down in a Cameroonian border town Thursday, as the United Nations and aid groups raced to head off mass hunger or an outbreak of disease among the refugees, humanitarian officials said.
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Chad president Idriss Deby Itno Thursday warned of an increasingly hardline response to the worst rebel attacks in the central African nation in nearly 20 years.