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CHAD: New polio cases threaten country, region and beyond

N'DJAMENA Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - The Chadian Health Ministry and the UN have launched a polio vaccination drive targeting half a million children in the west of the country, as new cases of the crippling and sometimes fatal disease continue to emerge. Despite previous vaccination campaigns, Chad has seen 27 cases of polio so far in 2008 -- including polio type 1, the most dangerous of the remaining serotypes -- up from 22 cases in 2007. The resurgence is due in part to poor...

CHAD: ICG proposes inclusive path to peace

DAKAR Friday, September 26, 2008 (IRIN) - Unless the Chad government includes rebels in reconciliation talks, the country will continue to face security threats and political crises, says the International Crisis Group (ICG) in its 25 September report http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5694 as a military, rather than a police force, EUFOR troops are ill-suited to fight widespread banditry and criminality in the east, says Oxfam. "Despite these troops, the east remains a largely...

CHAD: Armed attacks blocking aid in the east

NDJAMENA Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Rampant armed attacks have forced aid agencies to suspend critical humanitarian assistance to thousands of displaced people in eastern Chad. Aid workers warn that unless the security situation improves, more of the some 470,000 refugees and displaced people in the region could be affected. Aid organisations including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Action Against Hunger have suspended most activities in the areas of Dogdore and Ade near the...

CHAD: UN Secretary-General calls to double troop numbers

GOZ BEIDA Monday, November 17, 2008 (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for a doubling of international troops deployed to eastern Chad. UN peacekeepers, expected to replace the European Union force (EUFOR) due to leave in March 2009, would have a similar mandate of protecting displaced civilians and aid workers in the increasingly volatile region. Humanitarian agencies have been forced to suspend some of their operations in eastern Chad over the last few months after violent...

CHAD: UN Secretary-General calls to double troop numbers

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for nearly doubling the number of international troops deployed to eastern Chad. UN peacekeepers, expected to replace the European Union force (EUFOR) due to leave in March 2009, would have a similar mandate of protecting displaced civilians and aid workers in the increasingly volatile region. Humanitarian agencies have been forced to suspend some of their operations in eastern Chad over the last few months after violent attacks on staff. Ban is...

"Heaviest Rain Ever" predicted in Chad

Thousands of people have remained homeless in Chad and Cameroon since the rains began early in August, according to Norbert Allale, disaster response manager at the International Federation of the Red Cross.

Chad: War-surgery seminar in N'Djamena

The Chad delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) organized a seminar on war surgery in N'Djamena on 4 and 5 November. Around 40 surgeons and civilian and military practitioners working in the country took part. The aim was to raise awareness of the special nature of war surgery and also to make it easier to produce an emergency hospitalization plan in the event of a massive influx of war-wounded people. During the seminar an ICRC medical team shared its experience in...

CHAD: Armed attacks blocking aid in the east

Rampant armed attacks have forced aid agencies to suspend critical humanitarian assistance to thousands of displaced people in eastern Chad. Aid workers warn that unless the security situation improves, more of the some 470,000 refugees and displaced people in the region could be affected. Aid organisations including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Action Against Hunger have suspended most activities in the areas of Dogdore and Ade near the Sudanese border. Some 28,000 internally displaced...

CHAD: ICG proposes inclusive path to peace

Unless the Chad government includes rebels in reconciliation talks, the country will continue to face security threats and political crises, says the International Crisis Group (ICG) in its 25 September report. A permanent ceasefire has eluded the violence-wracked country even after numerous rounds of government-rebel peace negotiations since conflict surged again in December 2005. The report calls for better distribution of oil money, radical government reform and revived talks between Chad...

CHAD: Civil society disappointed by World Bank oil pull-out

Civil society members are disappointed the World Bank investment in oil exploitation in the Doba oil fields in southern Chad has broken down. The landmark 2001 deal between the World Bank, a US-oil consortium and the Chad government aimed to ensure the government harnessed its newfound oil wealth to reduce poverty across the country. The deal gave oil-producing communities in the south five percent of the royalties, and the national government 15 percent. The remainder was to be spent on the...