Chad Deploys 200 Soldiers to Defend Elephants From Poachers
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Text of report by Radio France Internationale on 6 June  [Chadian President] Idriss Deby Itno has deployed 400 regular army soldiers to defend the elephant population decimated by poachers. In 20 years, the country's elephant population has reduced from 40,000 elephants to 6,000.
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BAHAI, Chad Under the wide arms of an acacia tree, Khadija Adam Ahmed, 47, chronicled her search for refuge: Sudanese soldiers stealing her 75 cows during an attack at the village well six weeks ago, then shooting at her foot to keep her from running, ...
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France has sent around 100 extra troops  to the Central African Republic after a series of rebel attacks  in the poor, landlocked country, which borders Sudan's violent  Darfur region, the French military said on Thursday.
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Sudan's government  agrees to the deployment of some 3,500 extra African troops in war-torn Darfur.
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The African elephant got a new line of defense against poachers Monday after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent's illegal ivory trade.
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Chadian air force planes on Monday attacked a Chadian rebel base across the border, southwest of El-Geneina in the Darfur region of Sudan, a military source said.
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The UN secretary general calls for up to 11,000 troops to be sent to Chad and the Central African Republic.
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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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France will start flying humanitarian supplies into eastern Chad on Sunday to help tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadians, an army spokesman said.
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The U.N. Security Council generally supports deploying a U.N. force in Chad and Central African Republic to protect civilians who have fled fighting and monitor borders to reduce cross-border attacks, council diplomats said Tuesday.
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Twenty German soldiers were deployed on Friday to help recapture around 17,000 minks on the run.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 17 (IPS) - The deployment of a European Union peacekeeping  force in Eastern Chad has fallen behind schedule amid fears that  its French-dominated troops could come under attack after setting  foot in the troubled African state.
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Chad's government denies the capital is under threat from a rebel advance, as troops deploy outside the capital.
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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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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's government on Wednesday displayed more than 100 prisoners it said were captured during a rebel assault on the capital this month, branding them Sudanese mercenaries, Islamic militants and members of al Qaeda.
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Between 2,000 and 3,000 rebel soldiers armed with rifles were moving around the capital of Chad today as Chadian troops used helicopters against them, a French Defense Department spokesman said. The French government said it expected to evacuate 400 foreign nationals today after taking the same number out of its former colony the day before.
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The UN Security Council has expressed its support for a joint United Nations-European Union security force for eastern Chad and the northeastern region of the Central Africa Republic in order to protect civilians affected by strife in neighbouring Darfur.