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<div class="WordSection1"> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">AVOID MUSLIM CHAD</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Boko Haram attack on Chad army garrison kills scores of people, government says<br> </span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">FRANCE 24<br> OCTOBER 28, 2024<br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Around 40 members of the Chadian army were killed in an overnight attack by jihadist group Boko Haram near the Nigerian border, the government and local sources said on Monday. Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said in a statement that he had visited the scene early on Monday and launched an operation "to go after the attackers and track them down in their furthest hideouts". <br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">An attack by jihadist group Boko Haram on the Chadian army killed around 40 people overnight near the Nigerian border, the government and local sources said Monday.<br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">"A garrison housing more than 200 soldiers was targeted by members of Boko Haram" late on Sunday, a local source told AFP.<br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The presidency said in a statement that the attack struck near Ngouboua in the west of the country, "tragically leaving about 40 people dead".<br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno visited the scene early on Monday and launched an operation "to go after the attackers and track them down in their furthest hideouts", the statement added.<br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The attack struck at 10:00 pm local time (2100 GMT), local sources told AFP.<br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">"Boko Haram members took control of the garrison, seized the weapons, burnt vehicles equipped with heavy arms, and left," said one local source, who asked not to be named.<br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">A vast expanse of water and swamps, Lake Chad's countless islets serve as hideouts for jihadist groups, such as Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP), who make regular attacks on the countries' army and civilians.<br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Boko Haram launched an insurgency in Nigeria in 2009, leaving more than 40,000 people dead and displacing two million, and the organisation has since spread to neighbouring countries.<br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">In March 2020, the Chadian army suffered its biggest ever one-day losses in the region, when around 100 troops died in a raid on the lake's Bohoma peninsula.<br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The attack prompted then-president Idriss Deby Itno  the current president's father  to launch an anti-jihadist offensive.<br> In June, the International Office for Migration (IOM) recorded more than 220,000 people displaced by attacks from armed groups in Lake Chad province.</span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> <br> <br> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Military says that Chad's president killed on battlefield<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">EDOUARD TAKADJI and KRISTA LARSON<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Tue, April 20, 2021,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP)  Chad s longtime leader has died of wounds suffered during a visit to front-line troops battling a little-known rebel group, the military announced Tuesday, just hours after he was declared the winner of an election that would have given him another six years in power.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The military quickly announced President <span class="SpellE">Idriss</span> <span class="SpellE">Deby</span> <span class="SpellE">Itno's</span> son as the central African nation s interim leader, succeeding his 68-year-old father who ruled for more than three decades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Some observers immediately questioned the chain of events leading up to Tuesday's stunning announcement on national radio and television.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Ayo <span class="SpellE">Sogunro</span>, a Nigerian lawyer and fellow at the South Africa-based Center for Human Rights, said that under Chadian law the term of an incumbent president who dies is completed not by family members but by the National Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> The army seizing power and conferring it on the son of the president ... is a coup and unconstitutional," <span class="SpellE">Sogunro</span> tweeted Tuesday, calling for the African Union to condemn the transfer of power.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Deby's</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> 37-year-old son, Mahamat, is best known as a top commander of the Chadian forces aiding a U.N. peacekeeping mission in northern Mali. The military said Tuesday he now will head an 18-month transitional council following his father's death.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The military called for calm, instituting a 6 p.m. curfew and closing the country's land and air borders as panic kept many inside their homes in the capital, N Djamena.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> In the face of this worrying situation, the people of Chad must show their commitment to peace, to stability, and to national cohesion, Gen. <span class="SpellE">Azem</span> <span class="SpellE">Bermandoa</span> <span class="SpellE">Agouma</span> said.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The circumstances of <span class="SpellE">Deby s</span> death could not immediately be independently confirmed due to the remote location of the fighting.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The government has released few details of its efforts to put down the rebellion in northern Chad, though it did announce Saturday that it had  totally decimated one rebel column of fighters.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The rebel group, known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, later put out a statement saying fierce battles had erupted Sunday and Monday. It released a list of five high-ranking military officials who it said were killed, and 10 others it said were wounded, including Chad's president.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The army only said Tuesday that <span class="SpellE">Deby</span> had fought heroically but was wounded in a battle. He was then taken to the capital where he died of unspecified wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Some residents of the capital, though, said they feared there was more to the story of <span class="SpellE">Deby s</span> demise.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> The rumors that are going around about the transitional council give me the impression that some information is false, Thierry <span class="SpellE">Djikoloum</span> said.  They are already talking about dissolving parliament ... <span class="GramE">So</span> for me, I d say it was a coup <span class="SpellE">d etat</span>. He was killed. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Some foreign observers also questioned how a head of state could have been killed, saying it cast doubt on his protective guard. The Chadian military has only acknowledged five deaths in weekend fighting in which it said it killed 300 rebels.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> We still don t have the whole story, Laith <span class="SpellE">Alkhouri</span>, a global intelligence adviser, told The Associated Press.  It raises concerns regarding the security forces assessment of the clashes and their intelligence regarding the severity of the situation. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Other analysts pointed to <span class="SpellE">Deby's</span> long history of visiting the battlefield as a former army commander-in-chief himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> There s no evidence to suggest this was a coup committed by his troops. Anyone who follows <span class="SpellE">Deby</span> knows he used to say 'to lead troops you have to smell the gunpowder,' tweeted Cameron Hudson with the Atlantic Council s Africa Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Deby</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> was a major French ally in the fight against Islamic extremism in Africa, hosting the base for the French military s Operation <span class="SpellE">Barkhane</span> and supplying critical troops to the peacekeeping effort in northern Mali.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">French Defense Minister Florence <span class="SpellE">Parly</span> expressed her condolences to the Chadian people, in a news conference with her German counterpart in Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> What s central to us now is that a process of democratic transition can be implemented and the stability of Chad preserved, she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> For the rest, she added, French authorities need  a bit more time to analyze the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Earlier, the French presidency called <span class="SpellE">Deby</span>  a courageous friend. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Chad is losing  a great soldier and a president who worked non-stop for the security of the country and the stability of the region for three decades, it said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Deby</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> first came to power in 1990 when his rebel forces overthrew then-President <span class="SpellE">Hissene</span> <span class="SpellE">Habre</span>, who was later convicted of human rights abuses at an international tribunal in Senegal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Over the years <span class="SpellE">Deby</span> had survived numerous armed rebellions and managed to stay in power until this latest insurgency led by the Front for Change and Concord in Chad.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The rebels are believed to have armed and trained in neighboring Libya before crossing into northern Chad on April 11. Their arrival came on the same day that Chad s president sought a sixth term in an election several top opposition candidates boycotted.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Chad says suicide blasts kill at least 15 in Lake Chad<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">BY MADJIASRA NAKO<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">December 5, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Reuters<br> <br> N'DJAMENA Four female suicide bombers attacked the Chadian island of <span class="SpellE">Koulfoua</span> on Lake Chad on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 130 in an attack blamed by security sources on militant Islamist group Boko Haram.<br> <br> The swampy maze of islands in the border areas between Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria has become one of the main targets of Boko Haram fighters who can find easy cover in the waterways. The militants are based mostly in Nigeria but have become a wider security threat for the region.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> "The provisional death toll is 19 dead, including the four kamikazes, and 130 injured," said state TV.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> A U.N. official said that there was an unspecified number of people displaced by Boko Haram-related violence on the island when the attackers struck around midday on a busy market day.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> Two of the blasts rang out from the center of the market and a third in the street as people fled. All of the bombers were female, the security sources added.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> Chad extended a state of emergency in the region last month after a double suicide attack that killed 12 people. Dozens of people were killed in multiple bombings in the border town of <span class="SpellE">Baga</span> Sola in October.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> But new restrictions, such as bans on motorized canoes aimed at stopping attacks, makes it harder for aid agencies to access the roughly 60,000 displaced people living there.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> "Evacuations will have to be done by the army with the assistance of non-governmental organizations and the United Nations to local healthcare centers like Bol," said Florent <span class="SpellE">Mehaule</span>, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Chad.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> He said most of the region's displaced had arrived in April after clashes between Chad and Boko Haram in Niger and Nigeria. <span class="SpellE">Mehaule</span> could not provide exact details of the number of displaced on the island during the attack since they have not been able to reach it for several months.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> Lake Chad countries, backed by Benin, have vowed to defeat Boko Haram using forces from an 8,700-strong regional task force which officially become operational in August.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> However, security sources say that logistical constraints have caused delays and there are growing signs that national armies are instead acting alone. Cameroon said it conducted a major operation along its long western border with Nigeria, killing 100 militants and freeing 900 people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> Ryan Cummings, chief analyst for Africa at crisis management company red24, said such a strategy would have limited effects.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> "Boko Haram requires a simultaneous multilateral counter-insurgency operation which leaves militants with nowhere to run," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Suspected Boko Haram suicide attacks kill dozens in Chad<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">2015-10-11<br> france24.com<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">At least 36 people were killed in Chad Saturday in what appeared to be a string of coordinated suicide attacks targeting a village housing thousands of Nigerian refugees that had fled Islamic extremist violence.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The five suicide bombers behind the attacks in <span class="SpellE">Baga</span> Sola, on the shores of Lake Chad, have been identified as two women, two children and a man, according to a statement from government spokesman Hassan <span class="SpellE">Sylla</span> Bakari.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Female suicide bombers hit the market in <span class="SpellE">Baga</span> Sola when it was at its busiest Saturday, killing at least 16 people, the director general of Chad s gendarmerie, General <span class="SpellE">Banyaman</span> <span class="SpellE">Cossingar</span>, said. A second group of suicide bombers also targeted a nearby refugee camp, killing dozens more.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">"There are bodies everywhere, a head here, a leg there, everyone is in a state of panic," a resident said on the condition of anonymity.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">There were conflicting reports on the number of wounded. While the government s official count was 48, the UNICEF said at least 53 people were wounded, including 14 children.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> There were three explosions at the <span class="SpellE">Baga</span> Sola market and two explosions near the Dar-es-Salam refugee camp. From our information, the explosion was not in the refugee camp, but in a part of the village nearby, police spokesman Paul <span class="SpellE">Manka</span> said, noting that two of the bombings were near the refugee camp, but not actually inside it.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">For months, <span class="SpellE">Baga</span> Sola has been home to thousands of people who already had fled deadly Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria. The United Nations says the Dar-es-Salam camp now has just over 3,000 refugees, and can house up to 15,000 people.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The village is in the Lake Chad region near the border with Nigeria, where Boko Haram first launched its insurgency six years ago. According to Amnesty International the uprising has so far killed 20,000 people.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">While Boko Haram has attacked Chad s capital before, the bombings on Saturday appear to be the largest and most elaborate staged yet in the country s lake region.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Chad has become a major military ally of Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram, which earlier this year threatened to retaliate.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">In June and July, Chad s capital, N Djamena, was rocked by a series of suicide attacks that killed dozens of people - the first such attacks since Boko Haram threatened Chad.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Boko Haram, which has pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group, has also <span class="GramE">stepped up</span> attacks in Nigeria and neighboring countries since Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari took office in May pledging to halt the uprising.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Boko Haram has used dozens of young girls and women in recent suicide bombings in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger, raising fears it is using kidnap victims to target countries involved in setting up a regional force to combat the extremists.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Fierce fighting erupts between Chadian army and Boko Haram<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">2015-07-27<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Heavy fighting pitted the Chadian army on Monday against insurgents from the Nigeria-based Boko Haram group on islands in Lake Chad, security and local sources said.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">"Violent clashes" were under way near <span class="SpellE">Baga</span> Sola, one of the main Chadian towns in the lake that straddles Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger, a Chadian security source told AFP, adding that Chadian forces had earlier "<span class="GramE">intercepted</span> fleeing Boko Haram elements" around 20 <span class="SpellE">kilometres</span> (12 miles) to the southeast.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">A source close to the local authorities said a "major search operation" was under way for Boko Haram militants hiding out on the lake's islands.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">According to the security official, the clashes between militants and Chadian forces erupted Saturday on <span class="GramE">Midi Koutou island</span>, leaving six Boko Haram fighters dead and 15 wounded. A Chadian soldier was also said to have been killed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The source said Boko Haram "kidnapped many women and children" as they fled Saturday's fighting, and added Chadian forces had "around a thousand men positioned to occupy all the islands and <span class="SpellE">neutralise</span> Boko Haram."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">The source close to local authorities said that, following a request from the central government about two weeks ago, an operation was launched "to evacuate the islands' populations," and that about 90 percent of residents had been moved to the mainland since.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Boko Haram fighters have staged several bloody attacks in recent months on islands in Lake Chad, which they have begun using as a rear-base after being routed from their traditional strongholds in Nigeria in an offensive by regional armies launched at the start of the year. (AFP)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Chad bans Islamic face veil after suicide bombings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> </span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">17 June 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">BBC<br> <br> Chad has banned people from wearing the full-face veil, following two suicide bomb attacks on Monday.<br> Chad's government accused Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram of the bombings which killed more than 20 people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The prime minister said the veil was used as a "camouflage" by militants and said the security forces will burn all full-face veils sold in markets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> Chad is to host a new regional force set up to tackle Boko Haram.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The militant group has not commented on the attack but has previously threatened to attack Chad, after its forces started to help Nigeria.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> At a meeting with religious leaders, Prime Minister <span class="SpellE">Kalzeube</span> <span class="SpellE">Pahimi</span> <span class="SpellE">Deubet</span> said the ban applied everywhere, not only public places.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> He added that any clothing that covers everything but the eyes was a camouflage.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The attackers were on motorcycles when they blew themselves up outside two police buildings in the capital, N'Djamena.<br> <br> <span class="SpellE">Borno</span> state, at the heart of the insurgency, is on the Nigerian border with Chad and Chadian forces have played a key role in helping Nigeria battle the jihadist group.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The US announced on Tuesday that it will give $5m (3.2m) towards a multi-national task force headquarters in Chad.<br> <br> The BBC World Service's Africa editor Richard Hamilton says Boko Haram militants have increasingly been using female suicide bombers in Nigeria, as they are more likely to smuggle bombs into public places without detection.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The majority of the population in Chad is Muslim and the burka is worn mainly for religious reasons, but also helps protect women from the hot, dusty climate of the Sahara.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The full-face Islamic veil was also banned in May in public places in Congo-Brazzaville, to "counter terrorism".<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> Although there has never been an Islamist attack in the country and less than 5% of the population of Congo-Brazzaville is Muslim, thousands of mostly Muslim people had fled the <span class="SpellE">neighbouring</span> Central African Republic and had taken shelter in mosques.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> NDJAMENA - Ethnic fighting between rival mobs of Muslim and non-Muslim residents killed 12 people and injured another 16 in the south Chadian town of <span class="SpellE">Bebedjia</span>, the country's <span class="SpellE">defence</span> minister said on Monday. <span class="SpellE">Bebedjia</span> lies about 35 km from Chad's oilfields at <span class="SpellE">Doba</span>, the largest private sector investment ever undertaken in Africa, which have been pumping crude oil for the last year. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Residents in the town, most of whose inhabitants are Christian or <span class="SpellE">practise</span> traditional African religions, say its proximity to the oil project has attracted people looking for jobs, notably nomadic Muslims from the north of Chad. "A dispute between a trader and a customer escalated," <span class="SpellE">Defence</span> Minister Emmanuel <span class="SpellE">Naringar</span> told IRIN from the town, 600 km south of the capital, Ndjamena. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Officials and aid workers said the violence had flared on Wednesday when a young trader belonging to the <span class="SpellE">Ngambaye</span> ethnic group, dominant in the south-western region of the country, refused to sell a bag to a Muslim from the north. Their fight then sucked in other members of their communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">"The events were so violent the government could not wait," the minister said. "We came rapidly to calm things down, restore state authority, reassure the people and make sure peaceful coexistence remains a reality in the area." Another witness in the town said on Monday that several houses and part of the market had been burnt down during the clashes and some families had been forced to seek shelter at the town's hospital and church. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Yorongar</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> <span class="SpellE">Ngarledji</span>, the town's representative in parliament and a member of the opposition, put the death toll much higher, saying 33 people had in fact been killed. "This is what happens because of the difficulty of cohabitation between the indigenous population who are Christian farmers and the Muslim herdsmen," <span class="SpellE">Ngarledji</span> told IRIN. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Eleyakim</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> <span class="SpellE">Vanambyl</span>, a journalist for a <span class="SpellE">Doba</span>-based radio station, said last week's violence was not the first such incident in the area and that similar tensions had erupted a month ago in the nearby village of <span class="SpellE">Bikou</span>, although no-one was killed. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">Source:Ocnus.net</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> 2004<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black; display: none;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="headline1"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Darfur violence spreads across border to Chad</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="deck1"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="deck1"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Marauding Arab gunmen drive at least 20,000 from their homes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> <span class="byline1"><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">By LYDIA POLGREEN</span></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="bytitle1"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black;">The New York Times</span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"> <span class="date1"><span style="color: black;">Tuesday, February 28, 2006</span></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;">ADRE, 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, deepening one of the world's worst refugee crises.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> Arab gunmen from Darfur have pushed across the desert, stealing cattle, burning crops and killing anyone who resists. The lawlessness has driven at least 20,000 Chadians from their homes, turning them into refugees in their own country.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> Hundreds of thousands more people in this area, along with 200,000 Sudanese who fled here for safety, now find themselves caught up in a growing conflict between Chad and Sudan, two nations with a long history of violence and meddling in each other's affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> "You may have thought the terrible situation in Darfur couldn't get worse, but it has," Peter <span class="SpellE">Takirambudde</span>, executive director of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, said in a recent statement. "Sudan's policy of arming militias and letting them loose is spilling over the border, and civilians have no protection from their attacks, in Darfur or in Chad."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> Indeed, the accounts of civilians in parts of eastern Chad are agonizingly familiar to those in western Sudan. One woman, <span class="SpellE">Zahara</span> Isaac Mahamat, described how Arab men on camels and horses had raided her village in Chad, stealing everything they could find and slaughtering all who resisted.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The dead included her husband, Ismail Ibrahim, who tried to prevent the raiders from burning his sorghum and millet fields. Like so many others in this desolate expanse of dust-choked earth, she fled west with her three children, much as people in Darfur have been forced to do in recent years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> "I have lost everything but my children," she said, her face looking much older than her 20 years. She is now a refugee, with thousands of other displaced Chadians, in <span class="SpellE">Kolloye</span>, a village south of here. "We have three bowls of grain left," she said. "When that is gone, only God can help us."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The spreading chaos is a result of two closely connected conflicts in the neighboring countries:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> <b>In Darfur</b>, government forces and the <span class="SpellE"><i>janjaweed</i></span>, Arab militias aligned with the government, have been battling rebels in a campaign of terror that the Bush administration has called genocide.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The U.N Security Council has agreed to send troops to protect civilians, but they will take months to arrive. In the meantime, President Bush has said, NATO should help shore up a failing African Union peacekeeping mission there, but a surge of violence has chased tens of thousands of people from their homes in recent weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> <b>In Chad</b>, the government is fighting its own war against rebels based in Sudan and bent on removing Chad's ailing president, <span class="SpellE">Idriss</span> <span class="SpellE">Deby</span>, from power.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The rebels include disgruntled soldiers who defected and tribes tired of being ruled by members of the president's tribe, the Zaghawa, who represent just a small percentage of the population but who have long dominated politics and the military.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> In a sign of how inseparable the two conflicts have become, <span class="SpellE">Deby</span> has accused Sudan of supporting the rebellion against his government, and Sudan has long suspected members of <span class="SpellE">Deby's</span> family of supporting Zaghawa-led rebels in Darfur.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> Both sides agreed at a summit meeting in Libya in early February to stop supporting rebels on each other's territory and to tone down the belligerent talk. But Chadian rebels have remained on the Sudanese side of the border, and it is not clear whether <span class="SpellE">Deby</span> has the capacity to stop members of his clan from supporting Darfur rebels.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> If unchecked by international intervention, this complex and volatile mix of government forces, allied militias and at least a half-dozen rebel groups in a remote region awash with weapons will almost inevitably lead to disaster, said John Prendergast, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, and an expert on the Darfur conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> In Chad, the trouble began in December when rebel groups attacked <span class="SpellE">Adre</span> and two other strategic border towns. The Chadian army repelled the rebels, but it withdrew its troops from garrisons along the border to fortify <span class="SpellE">Adre</span>. <br> The withdrawal left a security vacuum for the <span class="SpellE">janjaweed</span> to rush into. The once well-traveled road between <span class="SpellE">Adre</span>, a bustling border town, and <span class="SpellE">Kolloye</span> has become a terrifying gantlet roamed by bandits and Arab militias. Dozens of villages have emptied; some have been burned. The few aid agencies working in this lawless region avoid the road, using a circuitous route farther west to reach <span class="SpellE">Abeche</span>, the regional capital.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> At the hospital in <span class="SpellE">Adre</span>, the number of gunshot victims in December and January almost doubled, to about 100 a month, relief officials said, a sign of growing lawlessness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> In one ward lay <span class="SpellE">Fatime</span> <span class="SpellE">Youma</span>, 13, with a tube draining the gunshot wound that had punctured her lung.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> She was shot, her father said, while looking for firewood with her 16-year-old sister, <span class="SpellE">Zenab</span>, who lay in the next room with a gunshot wound to her arm.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> The man charged with defending Chad's border and protecting refugees and civilians is Gen. <span class="SpellE">Abakar</span> Youssouf Mahamat <span class="SpellE">Itno</span>, 38, a nephew of <span class="SpellE">Deby</span> who was dispatched here the day of the rebel attack.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: black;"><br> "Sudan wants to export the war in Darfur to us here," <span class="SpellE">Itno</span> said at his camp in the hills above <span class="SpellE">Adre</span>. 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