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It has been a year since the horror of the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region-with over 200,000 dead in three years-began leaking across the border into Chad. It has also been a year since a simmering conflict boiled over into a full-scale confronta

Bush administration claims it's on a mission to root out terrorism all over the world, yet it provides the Chadian military with both trainings and armaments to keep groups linked to al-Qaeda active in the Sudan troubled region, Darfur.

Oil and other extractive sector companies look to Africa for its resource wealth without seeing the people. *Emira Woods recounts a personal trip to Nigeria's oil-rich delta region and compares it to similar situations in Chad and Liberia where the comm

In September 2006, the IFC published the first issue of its new publication series entitled Lessons of Experience, which it dedicated to the experience of employing external monitors in the Chad-Cameroon Oil & Pipeline project.

Four months ago, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz was fuming at the African nation of Chad for diverting oil revenues from the Chad-Cameron pipeline slated for poverty alleviation and social spending to a budget allocation for arms purchases.

Paul D. Wolfowitz, the World Bank president, on Friday suspended all loans to the central African nation of Chad, including one that helped finance a $4.2 billion oil pipeline, on the ground that it had broken an agreement to largely dedicate its oil reve

Aid agencies and international institutions are using limited aid budgets to subsidize the expansion of the international oil industry. This list helps you stay informed about the relationship between oil aid, debt, climate change and global poverty as we

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"Far from becoming the hoped for example of a way out of the factionalism and corruption that has tended to accompany...oil reserves in Africa, Chad has developed a bloody intra-tribal struggle for control of oil revenues with little hope...in sight."

Timane Erdimi, head of the Rally of Forces for Change (RFC) which raided the capital N'Djamena early in February with other rebels groups, said his forces could halt oil output from installations in the south pumping up to 160,000 barrels per day.

REBEL leader Joseph Kony has established contact with Chad's main rebel leader, General Mahamat Nouri, days after the LRA chief relocated to [CAR], information available to Daily Monitor indicates.

the site provides general information on the social, cultural and economic situation in Chad, as well as thematic discussions on the effects of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline.