At a Camp In Chad, Hope Wanes
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DOGDORE, Chad The sun beat down on 18-month-old Izzedine Adam, who sat naked and crying on the floor of his roofless straw hut. His mother cannot afford a sturdier home or ev en clothes to protect him from the cold desert nights. For now, she is just trying to find enough food to keep him alive.
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The Darfur region of Sudan, located in the western portion of the country along its border with Chad, is poor and remote, even by African standards.
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Chadian rebels said Monday they had voluntarily withdrawn from Chadâs capital overnight, but it was unclear if they succumbed to government forces.
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BELIEL CAMP, Sudan -- Dinka men once danced in a green field here in Darfur. A weave of drum rhythms would rise with the smoke of their twilight bonfires. The men would form a tight line with their spears, honoring their lost homeland in war-scattered southern Sudan and chanting praise for the peace they had found as refugees.
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AL-SALAM CAMP, Sudan  - A day before Darfur peace talks are due to open in Libya, many victims of the 4-1/2 year conflict in Sudan's remote west have already doomed them to failure.
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Chadian rebels said Monday they had voluntarily withdrawn from Chad's capital overnight, but it was unclear if they succumbed to the helicopter gunships and tanks deployed by government forces.
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Fighting raged for a second day in the capital of Chad on Sunday, with the government making an all-out attempt to beat back rebels who overran the capital on Saturday, Chadian officials said.
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NYALA, Sudan  - Refugee camps in Chad housing  200,000 Sudanese fleeing fighting in Darfur are near capacity  and placing a huge burden on Sudan's impoverished western  neighbor, the United Nations said Friday.
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French aid workers are accused of trying to steal more than 100 children in Chad. The charity says the children were orphans from Sudan's Darfur region being taken to foster families. But Chad officials say the children, some as young as 1, are its nationals, and the United Nations appears to be backing Chad.
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Angelina Jolie made a two-day trip to a camp in eastern Chad this week, where she visited refugees from neighboring Sudan's Darfur region.
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KALMA CAMP, Sudan -- She has been in the world for 18 days, and her life is tainted. Curled naked under a blanket close to her mother, Nashwa is too young to know shame, the emotion that will be like a shadow to her.
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N'DJAMENA  - African leaders held talks in Chad on  Wednesday, hoping to revive a faltering peace process for  Sudan's Darfur region and find ways of enforcing a truce in a  civil war that has already killed tens of thousands of people.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's government said on Thursday there were hopes a U.S. missionary held by a northern rebel group could be released in the next few days.
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Now that a Chadian court has handed down their conviction, the transfer of the six back to France to serve their sentences appears to be just a matter of time. Mending the damaged relations between France and Chad could take far longer
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Problems abound for air travel. But there is hope.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 21 The grass was patchy around the carousel, and there were not yet enough plastic balls to fill the playpen. A cold gray sky mirrored the cold gray lake, and too many of the plastic chairs under the big striped tent still sat empty.
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OURE CASSONI, Chad - Before the Janjaweed militia drove Armani Tinjany and her tribe off their farmland in western Sudan, before she had to wait in line for food rations in this refugee camp in the desert, she was a high school agriculture ...