Refugees from the neighboring Darfur region of this country have fled into eastern Chad
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Sudanese refugees in Chad - Wikipedia  By January 2011 the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated that there are 262,900 Sudanese refugees in Chad. The majority of them left Sudan escaping from the violence of the ongoing Darfur crisis, which began in 2003. UNHCR has given the Sudanese refugees shelter in 12 different camps ... In the first four months of 2011 more than 70,000 people have fled their...
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Refugee Crisis Grows as Darfur War Crosses a Border - The New ...  Feb 28, 2006 ... ADR, Chad - The chaos in Darfur, the war-ravaged region in Sudan where more than 200,000 civilians have been killed, has spread across the border into Chad, ... in this area, along with 200,000 Sudanese who fled here for safety, ... a result of two closely connected conflicts in the neighboring countries.
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Eastern Chad and Darfur - UNHCR  Eastern Chad is an arid region without permanent surface water, but in the rainy season ... refugees, and half of the 18,000 refugees at the Chad/Sudan border have ... tion will provide insights into the demographic structure of the population and facilitate targeting .... 200,000 Sudanese have fled to neighbouring Chad.
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Darfur conflict - Thomson Reuters Foundation  Jul 31, 2014 ... The United Nations has described Sudan's western Darfur region as one of the ... The conflict spilt over into neighbouring Chad and Central African Republic. ... Some 2 million people are still displaced, having fled their homes at the ... to those of armed groups in the south of the country and elsewhere.
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New wave of Darfur refugees flees into Chad - CNN.com  Feb 12, 2008 ... ... region of Darfur has sparked another wave of refugees into Chad ... Refugee camps in eastern Chad house about 300,000 people who ... the last few days from Sudan's Darfur region to neighboring Chad, ... Up to 30,000 people in Chad fled the country for Cameroon during the rebel-government fighting.
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Sudan facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ...  FOREIGN TRADE ... Regions of swampland lie in the south. ... The most temperate climate occurs in the Red Sea Hills. ... The country has conducted four censuses of population since 1956; however .... Port Sudan, on the Red Sea, is primarily a cargo port, handling all of Sudan's cotton exports as well as most food imports.
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Kenya: Maps, History, Geography, Government, Culture, Facts ...  Kenya borders Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. In the north ... in Kenya. Its largest group, the Kikuyu, migrated to the region at the beginning of the 18th century.
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French Colonies - Equatorial Africa - Discover France  The largest country of the former French Equatorial Africa, it is bounded ... Chad was made part of French Equatorial Africa in 1910 and a...
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Lake Chad | lake, Africa | Britannica.com  Lake Chad, French Lac Tchad , freshwater lake located in the Sahelian zone of ... 6,875 square miles (17,800 square km); in the early 21st century, however, the ..... The fourth period emerged from growing interest in Africa within European...
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Africa Country Profiles - UCLA International Institute  The country is called "Africa in miniature" for its geological and cultural diversity. ... It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the east, the Republic of the Congo and the ... Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the...
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Chad | Operation World  Chad. Republic of Chad. Africa. See Prayer Information. Geography. Area: 1,284,000 sq km. Desert in the north, dry grassland in centre, thick bush in the south.
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Geography of South Sudan - Wikipedia  The geography of South Sudan describes the physical features of South Sudan, a country in East Africa. South Sudan is a landlocked country and borders - clockwise - Sudan from the north, Ethiopia from the east, Kenya, ... A map of South Sudan, showing towns, cities, and disputed areas on its borders. South Sudan map of...
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Niger | history - geography | Britannica.com  Mar 22, 2016 ... It is bounded on the northwest by Algeria, on the northeast by Libya, on the east by ... Alternative Titles: Republic of Niger, Rpublique du Niger ... valleys are filled with moving sand dunes) and the Azaoua area in the south. .... town than Niamey; a Hausa town, it was the capital of Niger until 1926 and has a...
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The Biafran conflict in 1966. - Mercenary Wars and Soldiers of Fortune  While the southern part of the country's population was predominantly Christian and Animist. ... On 26th May 1967 the Eastern region voted to secede from Nigeria. ... Their initial efforts were unsuccessful, as Biafra successfully launched their .... but the planes trying to fly it in had to run a gauntlet of fire usually during the...
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Minorities in Turkey - Wikipedia  Minorities in Turkey form a substantial part of the country's population, with at least an .... Groups of nomadic and semi-nomadic itinerants found mainly in central and ..... Ethnic Kurds are the largest minority in Turkey, composing around 20% of the ... living all over Turkey, but most live to the east and southeast of the country,...
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The Rivers and Drainage Of Sudan - The Geography Site  ... the sporadic runoff into the Red Sea or rivers from Ethiopia flow into shallow, ... Nile flows out of the Ethiopian highlands to meet the White Nile at Khartoum.
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Political Map of Libya, Egypt, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti ...  The Central African Republic is a landlocked country located in Central Africa. It is bound by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, Democratic Republic of...
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Frustrations of Regional Peacekeeping: The OAU in Chad ... - CIAO  its independence in 1960, peace, security, and stability have eluded Chad just as .... paper without even a pretense of integration made by the colonial overlord. .... Although the conflict in Chad had been raging since 1965, it was not until 1977...
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Jeopary Questions page 2084 - CONGRESS - TriviaBistro.com  THE MYSTERIOUS EAST: River whose headwaters are in the Tibet highlands & whose delta is just south of Ho Chi Minh City  "LOCK"s: Long, braided hairstyle...
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Chad - ARRIVAL OF THE FRENCH AND COLONIAL ...  It claimed this area as a zone of French influence, and within two years it occupied part of what is now southern Chad. In the early 1890s, French military...
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History - Rwanda Hope - Amizero y'u Rwanda  Rwanda, republic in east central Africa, bounded on the north by Uganda, on the east by Tanzania, on the south by Burundi, and on the west by ... Eastward, toward the Tanzanian border, the land slopes downward to a series of ... Three ethnic groups make up the population: the Hutu (about 90%); the Tutsi (9%), noted as...