New force for Chad and CAR
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The UN Security Council approves a French plan to send UN and EU forces to protect refugees from Darfur.
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Chadian former rebel leader Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim becomes the country's minister of defence.
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The N.A.A.C.P. is looking for a new leader. It also needs to come up with a new sense of purpose
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A beefed-up joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur is set to take over from the current under-manned AU force on Monday in a bid to end years of bloodshed.
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PARIS, Aug 11  (IPS) - France and the United States have begun a new race  to compete for favours with  undemocratic regimes in Africa. The  competition is growing particularly in the oil-  rich North and  West Africa.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad will not accept an international military presence on its eastern border with Sudan's Darfur region but wants a civil protection force of police and gendarmes, the government said on Wednesday.
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The African Union could have troops in the Somali capital in a few weeks to help set up the new Somali government.
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ABOU GOULEM, Chad  - Muslim tribesmen in east Chad hope EU peacekeepers will shelter their families from civil war and ethnic conflict, but memories of colonial rule have left them wary of Western meddling in their affairs.
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N'DJAMENA, Chad The air is still cool at 9:30 a.m. as Yagoub Ali Hamid steps out of his pale yellow house into the sandy courtyard that leads to his office. His blue and gray plaid tunic skims the ground as his black sandals gently sink in with each step. The sound of a generator firing up across...
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NEAR ABECHE, Chad -- The Chadian government and its allied militias are indiscriminately targeting Arab nomads in eastern Chad, according to interviews with dozens of nomads, who described raids on their temporary villages, at least two aerial bombings, harassment and incidents of torture over the...
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The U.N. force in Lebanon will soon receive the first real boost in weapons and manpower: one battalion each of Italian and French troops with heavy armor, including tanks and artillery, officials said ...
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France has sent about 150 supplementary troops to Chad as a "precautionary measure" in response to a rebel offensive in the central African nation, a French Defense Ministry official said Friday.
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N'DJAMENA  - After surviving an assault by rebels last weekend, residents of the Chadian capital N'Djamena are now facing another battle to put food on the family table.
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The United States Air Force will push development of a new fuel to power its bombers and fighters, mixing conventional and nonpetroleum fuels.
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The United Nations Security Council authorized on Tuesday a European Union force and U.N. police to help protect civilians in Chad and the Central African Republic caught in the spillover from the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
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The violence in Chad has opened up a new conflict next to Sudan's wartorn Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have died since early 2003 and 2.5 million people have been chased into refugee camps.
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âWe are going to work with the new US administration that is formed ... We have many things to do, both on the current crises - in Iraq, the Middle East, Iran, the fate of the African continent - and to renovate the transatlantic relationship.