2000 Jan 25, A complaint was submitted in Dakar, Senegal, against former
Chad dictator Hissene Habre. It detailed 97 allegations of political killings,
142 cases of torture and 100 disappearances. Habre was indicted on Feb 3.
(SFC, 1/27/00, p.C2)(SFC, 2/4/00, p.D8)
2000 Feb, A Senegalese court indicted Hissene Habre, the former autocrat
of Chad.
(WSJ, 5/31/00, p.A26)
2000 May, Chad received a $25 million bonus from the oil consortium’s
junior partners, Chevron and Petronas of Malaysia, in the new pipeline deal.
(SFC, 12/6/00, p.C20)
2000 Jun 6, The World Bank approved a $3.7 billion oil well and pipeline
project led by Exxon and Mobile to link oil fields in Chad across 663 miles to
the Atlantic coast of Cameroon.
(SFC, 6/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 18, The World Bank endorsed a $3.5 billion oil project in Chad
with 80% of the revenues to go to development. 10% was to be invested for future
generations. The pipeline was to go from southern Chad to an Atlantic port in
Cameroon. By 2008 rather than comply with the bank’s strictures, Chad had repaid
its loans in full and spent its oil money as it pleased.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D5)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.63)
2000 Nov 23, It was reported that $4 million of a $25 million bonus
payment from the new oil project was used by the Chad government to buy weapons.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D5)(SFC, 12/6/00, p.C20)
2001 Mar 20, Senegal’s highest court said that it has no authority to
prosecute Hissene Habre, Chad’s former president, on charges of torture.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A14)
2001 Apr 12, A trailer truck carrying some 100 passengers went off the
Chagoua Bridge and plunged into the Chari River near the Chad capital of
N’Djamena. Most were missing and feared dead.
(SFC, 4/14/01, p.A10)
2001 May 20, Chad held elections and Pres. Deby was later declared the
winner. Police had detained 6 opposition candidates and beat dozens of their
supporters.
(WSJ, 5/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 19, Scientists in Chad found fossils in the Djurab desert of a
human ancestor that they later dated to 6-7 million years BP. In 2002 they named
the group Sahelanthropus tchadensis (with the nickname Toumaï, “hope of life” in
the Goran language).
(NW, 7/22/02, p.46)
2002 Sep 24, Youssouf Togoimi, rebel head of the Movement for Democracy
and Justice in Chad and a former minister in the government of President Idriss
Deby, died from wounds suffered after his vehicle struck a land mine Aug 28.
Togoimi died in a hospital in neighboring Libya where he was flown for
treatment.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2003 Jul 15, Chad began pumping oil to Cameroon, part of a project to
help alleviate crushing poverty in the two countries. The 4.2 billion project
was funded by the World Bank on the condition that the oil money be used for
development. Pres. Idris Deby later diverted the money to the general budget and
for weapons.
(AP, 7/16/03)(SFC, 12/21/07, p.A31)
2003 Sep, Refugee numbers in Chad reach 65,000. UN agencies estimate at
least 500,000 people in Darfur need humanitarian aid.
(
www.un.org/News/dh/dev/scripts/darfur_formatted.htm)
2003 Oct 3, The first tanker set off the Cameroon port of Kribi with
crude oil from a massive $3.7 billion, 665-mile pipeline from the landlocked
nation of Chad.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Dec 14, Chad's government signed a cease-fire with rebel forces at
the end of talks in Burkina Faso.
(AP, 12/14/03)
2003 Chad’s population was about 8 million.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D5)
2004 Jan 26, Sudanese planes dropped bombs in western Sudan, sending
hundreds of people fleeing across the border into Chad where aid workers
scrambled to provide them food and shelter in the barren desert.
(AP, 1/27/04)
2004 Feb 17, UN agencies began urgently airlifting relief supplies into
eastern Chad and western Sudan to help more than 600,000 Sudanese lacking food,
water and medical supplies because of fighting.
(AP, 2/17/04)
2004 Mar 9, In Chad 2 days of fighting broke out as the army battled
Islamic militants near a remote village on the country's western border with
Niger, killing 43 "terrorists" of a group suspected of links with al-Qaida.
Chad’s defense minister said hundreds of Arab militiamen from Sudan had raided a
village inside Chad, setting off gun battles with the army that killed dozens of
fighters.
(AP, 3/12/04)(AP, 5/9/04)
2004 Mar 18, A rebel group in Chad captured Amari Saifi, one of North
Africa's most notorious terrorists, along with 9 others. Saifi is and an
Algerian extremist suspected in the hostage-taking of 32 European tourists last
year.
(AP, 5/14/04)
2004 Jun 12, Central African leaders of Chad and Cameroon officially
opened the taps on one of the largest private investments in sub-Saharan Africa,
a 663-mile, $3.7 billion pipeline snaking from Chad through virgin rain forests
to the Atlantic.
(AP, 6/12/04)
2004 Jun 17, A Chad military official said Arab militias, known as
Janjawids, fought Chadian troops in Birak, a locality inside Chad about 10 miles
(six kilometers) from the border with western Sudan. 69 Janjawids militiamen
were killed and two taken prisoner in the fighting. He did not give figures for
any losses among Chadian troops.
(AP, 6/17/04)
2004 Jul 10, Sudan, under international pressure to take action to end
the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, agreed with Chad to deploy a joint force
along their troubled border.
(AFP, 7/11/04)
2004 Aug 14, Africa’s worst desert locust plague in 15 years continued
across Chad.
(SFC, 8/14/04, p.C8)
2004 US Special Forces began training local troops in Mauritania and Mali
under a program called the Pan-Sahel Initiative. The program was renamed the
Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Initiative and taken over by Marines, who
extended the training to Chad and Niger.
(SFC, 10/2/04, p.A8)
2005 Jun, The Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Initiative began operations.
The US funded plan intended to provide military equipment and development aid to
9 north-east African countries considered fertile ground for Muslim militant
groups. Participating countries included Algeria, Chad, Mali, Mauritania,
Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tunisia.
(SFC, 12/27/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 19, Belgium issued an international arrest warrant for Chad's
former leader Hissene Habre, charging him with atrocities during his 1982-90
rule. Habre, who lives in exile in Senegal, is being pursued under Belgium's
"universal jurisdiction" laws, which allow for prosecutions for crimes against
humanity wherever they were committed.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Oct 18, Transparency International ranked Bangladesh and Chad as the
most corrupt on an annual list of corruption levels in 159 nations. At the other
end of the scale, Iceland was ranked least corrupt. Turkmenistan, Myanmar,
Haiti, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, the Ivory Coast and Angola joined Chad and
Bangladesh as the most corrupt countries.
(AP, 10/18/05)
2005 Oct, The government of Chad said it intends to amend a law governing
petrodollars so it can use a larger chunk for any purpose it likes.
(SFC, 12/30/05, p.C2)
2005 Nov 25, Hissene Habre, Chad's former dictator, was freed after a
Senegalese court said it had no jurisdiction to rule on his extradition to
Belgium to stand trial for war crimes.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 27, Senegal's foreign minister said the African Union will
decide the fate of Chad's former dictator, wanted in Belgium for trial on
human-rights abuses allegedly committed during his regime.
(AP, 11/28/05)
2005 Dec 8, Paul Wolfowitz, head of the World Bank, issued a statement to
Chad expressing serious concerns about proposed changes to the use of
petrodollars.
(SFC, 12/30/05, p.C2)
2005 Dec 18, Chad blamed its neighbor Sudan for a rebel raid on an
eastern garrison and announced it was exercising its right to pursue the
attackers on Sudanese soil. A spokesman said an early morning attack on Adre's
garrison was mounted by army deserters allied with a recently formed rebel group
called the Rally for Democracy and Liberty (RDL), which Chad accuses of being a
"militia used by the Sudanese government."
(AP, 12/18/05)
2005 Dec 19, Chad's army said its forces had killed about 300 rebels
after they launched a failed offensive on a border town in one of the worst
attacks in an escalating conflict. Chad's foreign minister said the troops then
chased the rebels into Sudan and destroyed their bases across the border.
(AP, 12/19/05)
2006 Jan 4, Chad's President Idriss Deby urged the UN to take control of
Sudan's volatile Darfur region because he said Khartoum was using the conflict
there to destabilize neighboring states.
(Reuters, 1/4/06)
2006 Jan 7, The World Bank under Paul Wolfowitz halted all lending to
Chad saying the country broke a deal to use oil money to cut poverty.
(WSJ, 1/7/06, p.A1)(Econ, 3/4/06, p.69)
2006 Feb 8, In Libya the leaders of Sudan and Chad signed a peace
agreement to end increasing tension over Sudan's Darfur region, pledging to
normalize diplomatic relations and deny refuge to each other's rebel groups. A
communique issued by Sudan, Chad and Libya, as well as Burkino Faso, Congo and
the Central African Republic, whose leaders attended the talks, said a committee
of African countries overseen by Libya would monitor the implementation of the
deal.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 13, Joey Cheek (26), American speedskater, won a gold medal in
the 500-meter sprint in Turin, Italy, and announced that he would donate his
$25,000 award from the US Olympic Committee to a refugee program in Chad.
(SFC, 2/14/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 12-2006 Apr 13, Sudanese Janjaweed militia with local Chadian
recruits shot or hacked to death 118 villagers in eastern Chad in a bloody
spillover of violence from Sudan's Darfur region.
(Reuters, 5/25/06)
2006 Apr 13, In Chad government troops using tanks and attack helicopters
repelled a rebel assault on N’Djamena, Chad's capital. At least 100 rebels were
killed. President Deby went on state-run radio to assure residents he remained
in control, and he blamed Sudan, whose Darfur crisis has spilled over into his
country.
(AP, 4/13/06)(Econ, 4/22/06, p.50)
2006 Apr 14, Chad broke off diplomatic relations with Sudan and
threatened to expel 200,000 Sudanese refugees, blaming its neighbor for a rebel
attack that killed 350 in the capital.
(AP, 4/14/06)
2006 Apr 15, Chad threatened to cut off its flow of oil unless the World
Bank releases $125 million frozen in a dispute over how the central African
country should spend its oil revenues.
(AP, 4/15/06)
2006 Apr 16, Chad's Pres. Deby promised the UN that refugees from Sudan's
Darfur region will not be forcibly returned.
(AP, 4/17/06)
2006 May 3, Chadians voted for president despite no real alternatives to
incumbent Idriss Deby, who rebuffed calls to delay the election in this emerging
African oil exporter in favor of peace talks with rebels.
(AP, 5/3/06)
2006 Jun 11, A military transport plane crashed as it tried to land at an
unlit airport at night in Chad's main eastern city, killing five people. Chad
rebels claimed that they shot the C-130 military plane down at Abeche airport.
(AP, 6/12/06)
2006 Jun 16, A joint UN and African Union delegation met Chadian
President Idriss Deby to discuss the possible deployment of UN troops in Sudan's
war-ravaged western Darfur region.
(AFP, 6/16/06)
2006 Jun 20, Chad accused Sudan of cross-border attacks and urged the
Security Council to meet over its neighbor's alleged "aggression and
destabilization."
(AP, 6/20/06)
2006 Jun 26, An attack on an army camp in the Central African Republic
(CAR) resulted in 33 deaths. The provisional toll included 11 CAR soldiers, two
Chadian soldiers from the multinational force FOMUC and 20 attackers.
(AFP, 6/27/06)
2006 Jul 2, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade said his country would try
Chad's former leader Hissene Habre, wanted by Belgium for trial on charges of
war crimes and crimes against humanity.
(AFP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 14, The World Bank said it and Chad had resolved a dispute over
oil revenues that will result in significant increases in government spending on
projects that benefit the poor.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Aug 6, Taiwan condemned China after oil producer Chad switched
diplomatic ties to Beijing from Taipei, forcing Premier Su Tseng-chang to scrap
his plans to visit the African nation at the last minute.
(Reuters, 8/6/06)
2006 Aug 8, Chad and Sudan agreed to reopen their borders and resume
diplomatic relations that they severed in a dispute four months ago.
(AP, 8/9/06)
2006 Aug 26, Chad ordered US energy giant Chevron and Malaysia's Petronas
to leave the country within 24 hours for failing to honor tax obligations, a
move apparently aimed at increasing control over its oil output. Chad's
president Idriss Deby suspended the oil minister and two other Cabinet members
who negotiated deals with the two foreign oil firms.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 30, Conservationists said the remains of 100 African elephants
killed for their tusks have been found in Chad not far from Sudan's troubled
Darfur region.
(AP, 8/31/06)
2006 Sep 1, In Chad US Senator Barack Obama held talks with President
Idriss Deby Itno on the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region and on Chad's oil
production, on the final stop of the African-American politician's tour of the
continent.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 7, Chad Pres. Idriss Deby and Chevron CEO David O’Reilly met in
Paris for talks on oil taxes. Chad said Chevron agreed to pay back taxes.
(SFC, 9/9/06, p.C1)
2006 Oct 7, Sudanese soldiers crossed the border into eastern Chad to
fight a group of Darfur rebels, leaving more than 300 people injured.
(AP, 10/8/06)
2006 Oct 18, Local and UN officials said Sudanese Janjaweed militia and
Chadian rebels have attacked at least 10 villages in south-east Chad in the past
fortnight, killing over 100 people and displacing more than 3,000.
(Reuters, 10/18/06)
2006 Oct 23, In southeastern Chad armed men attacked Am Timan, 24 hours
after briefly seizing the town of Goz Beida near the Sudan border. The
insurgents, calling themselves the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development
(UFDD), the latest in a string of titles grouping various rebel factions, have
said they want polls to end the "catastrophic" rule of President Idriss Deby.
(Reuters, 10/24/06)
2006 Oct 27, The UN said it is sending a mission to Chad and the Central
African Republic to look at operations to curb the escalating violence and help
protect hundreds of thousands of civilians.
(AP, 10/28/06)
2006 Oct 28, Chad accused Sudan's air force of bombarding four towns
along its eastern frontier and said its armed forces were ready to repel further
aggression.
(Reuters, 10/28/06)
2006 Oct 31, A small clash between ethnic Arab and ethnic African
villagers along Chad's border with Darfur escalated into a large-scale attack in
which Arabs killed 128 Africans. The fight broke out in Amtiman in southeastern
Chad between two small groups after a member of one group insulted the other.
(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 2, Senegal moved closer to bringing Hissene Habre, a former
Chadian dictator accused of war crimes, to justice after the government
announced that local laws would be revised and a special commission formed to
organize and oversee his trial.
(AP, 11/3/06)
2006 Nov 13, Chad declared a state of emergency in three eastern regions
where ethnic clashes have left as many as 200 people dead and raised fears that
Sudan's Darfur conflict is spilling across the border.
(AP, 11/14/06)
2006 Nov 18, Gabonese President Omar Bongo said in a statement that the
Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) had "acceded to a
request from the Central African Republic authorities to intervene in securing
conflict zones." CEMAC's members include the Central African Republic, Chad,
Gabon, Congo, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
(AFP, 11/18/06)
2006 Nov 24, Chadian rebels rolled into the east of the country in their
second offensive within a month against President Idriss Deby Itno. Chad
extended a state of emergency for six months in the country's eastern provinces,
where ethnic clashes have killed as many as 400 people and raised fears that
Sudan's Darfur conflict is spilling across the border.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 25, In eastern Chad fighting broke out between the national army
and rebels, and rebels claimed they had seized the major city in the area.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 26, In eastern Chad government forces entered Abeche, one day
after rebels launched an attack and claimed to have seized the town.
(AP, 11/26/06)
2006 Nov 28, A Chadian military reconnaissance plane was shot down in
eastern Chad in an attack likely carried out by rebels.
(AP, 11/28/06)
2006 Dec 1, Amnesty International accused the government of Chad of
failing to act as Janjaweed militia carry out increasing attacks on civilians.
(AFP, 12/1/06)
2006 Dec 6, In Chad an association of radio broadcasters said private
radio stations began a three-day protest of government censorship of their
reporting on Chad's volatile east.
(AP, 12/6/06)
2006 Dec 17, In eastern Chad marauding fighters killed and mutilated 20
civilians. The government blamed the atrocities on militias backed by
neighbouring Sudan. Government forces who battled the attackers after their
raids on the refugee camp and two other nearby villages also saw eight of their
soldiers killed and the victims' eyes gouged out. The army killed nine fighters
in return and took four prisoners.
(AFP, 12/19/06)
2006 Dec 24, Chad's president and the leader of a rebel faction that
tried to oust him earlier this year signed a peace accord in Libya, but other
Chadian insurgents dismissed the deal and vowed to fight on.
(Reuters, 12/24/06)
2006 Dec 25, Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno and rebel leader Mahamat
Nour Abdulkerim arrived in N'Djamena after signing a peace deal in Libya. One of
the current rebel leaders, Timane Erdimi, dismissed the significance of the deal
with Nour's FUC, some of whose men went off to join a coalition led by the Rally
of Democratic Forces (RAFD) headed by Erdimi and his twin brother Tom. Deby's
government is also up against the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development
(UFDD), led by former defense minister Mahamat Nouri, and the Chadian National
Concord movement led by Hassan Saleh al-Djinedi.
(AFP, 12/25/06)
2006 France used Chad’s airspace to train fighter pilots and maintained a
military presence in the eastern part of the country.
(Econ, 11/11/06, p.54)
2007 Jan 15, Anti-government rebels in Chad said they have captured a new
location in the far north of the central African country after ending a truce at
the weekend. Chadian defense minister, General Bichara Issa Djadallah, denied
the rebel claim.
(AFP, 1/15/07)
2007 Jan 17, Chadian rebels captured the small town of Ade on the border
with Sudan, the latest in a series of raids in the lawless east of the central
African country.
(AP, 1/17/07)
2007 Jan 24, A hijacker seized a Sudanese passenger plane carrying 103
people and forced the pilot to fly to the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, where he
surrendered. The gunman wanted the plane to be flown to Britain but when told
there was insufficient fuel agreed to go to the capital of neighbouring Chad. He
said he wanted to draw attention to the Darfur conflict.
(AP, 1/24/07)
2007 Feb 1, Chadian rebels fighting to overthrow President Idriss Deby
attacked the eastern border town of Adre on the main road route into Sudan's
Darfur region.
(AP, 2/1/07)
2007 Feb 15, A summit of African leaders opened in Cannes on the French
Riviera. The crisis in Darfur and violence in Guinea overshadowed the summit, as
well as perennial issues of poverty, development and AIDS. France won agreement
from three involved African nations (Sudan, Chad and Central African Republic)
that they would not support armed rebel movements on each other's territories.
(AP, 2/15/07)(AP, 2/15/07)
2007 Feb 21, At a regional meeting in Libya the leaders of Sudan and Chad
said they agreed to redouble efforts to end violence spilling over their border
from Darfur.
(Reuters, 2/21/07)
2007 Feb 23, Chadian PM Pascal Yoadimnadji (56) died at a Paris hospital
following a brain hemorrhage.
(AP, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 28, Djidda Moussa Outman, Chad's minister of foreign affairs,
said that Chad had never accepted the idea of a military force of "whatever
nature" on its eastern border.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 4, Chad named the former rebel leader Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim as
its new defense minister in a major reshuffle of the volatile central African
country's government.
(AFP, 3/4/07)
2007 Mar 6, The government of Chad refused to allow the UN to send an
advance mission to prepare for the possible deployment of UN peacekeepers, a
setback to plans to help thousands of civilians caught in the spillover of the
Darfur conflict in neighboring Sudan.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 31, Janjaweed militiamen killed up to 400 people in the volatile
eastern border region near Sudan, leaving an "apocalyptic" scene of mass graves
and destruction. Chadian officials initially said 65 people had died, but added
that the toll was sure to rise.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, South African President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Khartoum to
join the international push for UN peacekeepers in Darfur, amid fears of a
regional spillover after clashes between Sudan and Chad. Officials said the UN,
the African Union and the Sudanese government have reached agreement to beef up
the African force in Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region with UN troops,
police and equipment.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 26, Six central African countries (Gabon, Equatorial Guinea,
Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon and Congo) plan to launch a common
passport in July, permitting the free movement of goods and people across their
borders.
(AFP, 4/26/07)
2007 May 3, African neighbors Sudan and Chad signed a Saudi-brokered
reconciliation deal in Saudi Arabia, requiring both sides to cooperate with the
United Nations to stabilize Darfur and the adjacent region in Chad.
(AP, 5/3/07)
2007 May 4, A rebel spokesman said a Saudi-brokered reconciliation deal
signed by Chad with its neighbor Sudan will not halt a guerrilla war by Chadian
rebels aimed at toppling President Idriss Deby.
(Reuters, 5/4/07)
2007 May 9, Chad pledged to work to demobilize hundreds of child soldiers
fighting in the ranks of the government army and rebel groups across the
conflict-torn central African country.
(Reuters, 5/9/07)
2007 Jun 3, In Libya African leaders sought to reconcile differences
between neighbors Chad and Sudan over Darfur and boost Somalia's embattled
transitional government at a regional summit.
(AFP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, Brahim Deby (27), the son of Chad's president, was found dead
with a head wound in the basement of his apartment building in a Paris suburb.
Authorities treated the case as a murder investigation.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 23, The European Union took the first step towards sending
forces to Chad and the Central African Republican to help the United Nations
protect refugees trapped in the violent region bordering Darfur.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Aug 23, The government of Chad said it will adhere to a program
designed to put pressure on countries to be open about revenues from exports of
oil, natural gas and minerals.
(AP, 8/23/07)
2007 Sep 7, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Chad for talks
with President Idriss Deby Itno on the Darfur crisis in neighbouring Sudan, and
the plight of refugees who have fled to his country.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 25, The UN Security Council unanimously passed a French
resolution endorsing sending a European Union-UN force to Chad and the Central
African Republic to protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur
conflict.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Oct 15, European Union foreign ministers gave their final approval
to deploy a 3,000-strong EU peacekeeping force for one year to help refugees and
displaced people living along Darfur's borders with Chad and the Central African
Republic.
{EU, Sudan, Chad, CAR}
(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 16, Chad's government declared a state of emergency along
its eastern border with Sudan's Darfur and in its remote desert north to tackle
a fresh flare-up of ethnic violence that killed at least 20 people.
(AP, 10/16/07)
2007 Oct 25, In Chad 9 French citizens were arrested after a group tried
to fly 103 African children to France, saying it wanted to save them from the
crisis in neighboring Darfur. On Oct 29 six French nationals were charged with
kidnapping and a judge in the eastern city of Abeche also agreed to allow
prosecution charges of complicity against three French journalists.
(AP, 10/26/07)(AP, 10/30/07)
2007 Oct 28, Authorities in Chad charged six French charity workers with
kidnapping after they tried to put 103 children on a plane to France, claiming
they were orphans from Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region. The charity
workers were later convicted, jailed for several months, then pardoned.
(AP, 10/29/08)
2007 Nov 4, In Chad 3 French journalists and 4 Spanish flight attendants,
among 17 detained for over a week in an alleged attempt to kidnap 103 African
children, were released. French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Chad on a
visit to discuss the fate of Europeans facing charges for trying to fly 103
African children to Europe.
(AP, 11/4/07)(Reuters, 11/4/07)
2007 Nov 9, A Belgian pilot and three Spanish flight crew were set free
by authorities in Chad who had accused them of complicity in a plot to kidnap
103 children and take them to France for adoption.
(AP, 11/9/07)
2007 Nov 26, In eastern Chad rebels and government soldiers fought
gunbattles near the border with Sudan's Darfur region after two rebel groups
ended a month-long ceasefire. A rebel group, Union of Forces for Development and
Democracy, claimed to have killed over 200 government soldiers with 20 of its
fighters lost.
(Reuters, 11/26/07)(AP, 11/27/07)(SFC, 11/27/07, p.A17)
2007 Nov 29, In eastern Chad new fighting erupted near the border with
Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region between the army and a leading rebel group.
(AP, 11/29/07)
2007 Nov 30, In Chad anti-government rebels declared a "state of war"
against French and foreign military forces in an apparent warning to an EU
peacekeeping force that plans to deploy soon in eastern Chad.
(Reuters, 11/30/07)
2007 Dec 4, The Chadian army fought heavy battles against rebel forces in
the east of the country near the border with Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
(AFP, 12/4/07)
2007 Dec 7, Six French nationals detained in Chad on suspicion of trying
to illegally fly 103 children to Europe started a hunger strike, complaining
their case was being neglected.
(Reuters, 12/8/07)
2007 Dec 26, A Chadian court convicted six French aid workers of trying
to kidnap 103 African children and sentenced them to eight years of forced
labor. The French Foreign Ministry in Paris said it would ask Chadian
authorities to transfer the six convicted to France. The countries have a
bilateral judicial agreement that could allow for such a transfer.
(AP, 12/26/07)
2007 Dec 28, In Chad 6 French aid workers sentenced to eight years'
forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children left for France, boarding a plane
in handcuffs as security officers looked on.
(AP, 12/28/07)
2007 Dec 29, Sudan accused Chadian aircraft of bombing its western Darfur
region in what it called "repeated aggressions" by its western neighbor. a
Sudanese foreign ministry statement said 3 Chadian war planes bombed two areas
in West Darfur on December 28.
(AFP, 12/30/07)
2008 Jan 7, Chadian air force planes attacked a Chadian rebel base across
the border, southwest of El-Geneina in the Darfur region of Sudan.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 11, Belgium, France and Poland pledged to provide the resources
needed to launch a European Union peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central
African Republic.
(AP, 1/11/08)
2008 Jan 28, The EU launched its long-awaited peacekeeping force for Chad
and the Central African Republic to help protect hundreds of thousands of
refugees from strife-torn Darfur.
(AFP, 1/28/08)
2008 Jan 28, A French court sentenced six French charity workers to 8
years in prison, after they were convicted in Chad of trying to kidnap 103
children they said were orphans from Darfur.
(AP, 1/28/08)
2008 Jan, The population of Central African Republic was about 4 million.
Bandits known as Zaraguina, mostly from Chad, were reported to be looting,
kidnapping and demanding thousands of dollars in ransom for local cattle herders
from the Peuhl tribe.
(Econ, 1/26/08, p.47)
2008 Feb 1, Chad's army fought to drive off rebels who pushed to within
100 km (60 miles) of the capital N'Djamena and the clashes delayed the
deployment of European peacekeepers. A French Defense Ministry official said
France has sent about 150 supplementary troops to Chad as a "precautionary
measure" in response to a rebel offensive.
(AP, 2/1/08)
2008 Feb 1, In Ethiopia a summit of African Union leaders shifted its
attention from the crisis in Kenya to Chad, with delegates voicing fears of a
major conflict that could scupper peace efforts in Sudan.
(AP, 2/1/08)
2008 Feb 2, African Union leaders condemned the latest unrest in Chad and
Kenya at the close of a summit overshadowed by new crises on the continent and
which saw little headway achieved on older ones. Hundreds of rebels penetrated
the capital of Chad, clashing with government troops and moving on the
presidential palace after a three-day advance through the oil-producing central
African nation.
(AFP, 2/2/08)(AP, 2/2/08)
2008 Feb 3, Chadian forces backed by tanks and helicopter gunships
struggled to repel a rebel assault on the capital, and insurgents claimed to
have trapped the president in his palace. Chadian rebels, reportedly backed by
Sudanese military aircraft, launched an attack on the eastern town of Adre,
which borders on Sudan's Darfur region.
(AP, 2/3/08)(AFP, 2/3/08)
2008 Feb 4, In Chad government forces and rebels clashed for a third day
in the capital of N'Djamena with gunfire and shelling heard throughout the city.
(AP, 2/4/08)
2008 Feb 7, Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno issued a "solemn call" for
a European peacekeeping force for Darfur refugees, to deploy as soon as
possible. The president also said he was "ready to pardon" six French aid
workers convicted in December of trying to kidnap more than 100 children they
said were orphans from Darfur.
(AP, 2/7/08)(AFP, 2/7/08)
2008 Feb 10, The UN refugee agency said up to 12,000 "terrified" refugees
from Sudan's Darfur region have fled across the border to neighboring Chad after
the latest air strikes by the Sudanese military and thousands more may be on
their way.
(AP, 2/10/08)
2008 Feb 11, Chad's PM Nouradin Koumakoye demanded that the international
community remove refugees who have fled to Chad from Sudan's Darfur region.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 14, Chad's Pres. Idriss Deby declared a state of emergency and
signed a decree increasing government powers for 15 days.
(SFC, 2/15/08, p.A12)
2008 Feb 29, The UN refugee agency said that 3,000 refugees from Darfur
have arrived in Chad in the last week, bringing the total number to over 13,000
in February alone.
(AFP, 2/29/08)
2008 Mar 4, France pinned the blame on Sudanese forces for a shooting
near the border with Chad that left one French soldier wounded and another
missing and asked Sudanese authorities for help in locating the missing soldier.
Sgt. Gilles Pollin’s remains were formally identified Mar 7 and flown to Paris
from Khartoum.
(AP, 3/4/08)(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 13, Chad accused Sudan of sending anti-government rebels across
their border into its territory as international mediators struggled to broker a
fresh peace accord between the two neighbors. The presidents of Chad and Sudan
signed a non-aggression pact, vowing not to support rebel attacks against each
other, many of which were launched from troubled Darfur.
(AP, 3/13/08)(AFP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 17, An EU force of 3,700 troops still deploying in Chad and the
Central African Republic (CAR) announced the official start of its year-long
mission to protect refugees and displaced people. The EU force in Chad was known
as EUFOR, and the UN Mission there and the CAR was called MINURCAT.
(AFP, 3/17/08)(Econ, 5/31/08, p.52)
2008 Mar 31, Chad's state radio announced that the president has pardoned
six French aid workers convicted of kidnapping 103 children.
(AP, 3/31/08)
2008 Apr 2, Chad's main rebel group urged former colonial ruler France to
stop backing President Idriss Deby Itno and cease flying over rebel positions in
the central African nation's restive east.
(AP, 4/2/08)
2008 May 1, Pascal Marlinge, the country head of Save the Children UK in
Chad, was shot dead by gunmen who held up his three-car convoy between the
villages of Forchana and Hadjer Hadid, not far from the border with Sudan's
Darfur region. UN aid agencies suspended all but their most urgent work in
eastern Chad for two days in a "symbolic protest."
(Reuters, 5/2/08)
2008 May 10, Sudanese soldiers clashed with Darfur rebels of the Justice
and Equality Movement (JEM) in the north of the capital Khartoum where a curfew
has now been imposed. Officials later said more that 200 people were killed in
the weekend fighting. The rebels had traveled from Chad in 191 land cruisers and
pick-up trucks. On May 27 an official Egyptian newspaper claimed that Sudanese
forces searching the rebel JEM movement found modern Iranian weapons with them
and that authorities had seized large amounts of ammunition and Iranian
equipment.
(AFP, 5/10/08)(AP, 5/13/08)(Econ, 5/17/08, p.59)(AFP, 5/27/08)
2008 May 11, Sudan severed diplomatic ties with Chad, accusing its
neighbor of backing a first ever Darfur rebel assault on Khartoum, and partly
lifted a curfew amid its clampdown on remaining rebels.
(AFP, 5/11/08)
2008 May 12, Chad closed its border with Sudan and put a halt to
bilateral trade, a minister said, a day after Sudan severed diplomatic ties with
Chad.
(AP, 5/12/08)
2008 Jun 14, Rebels in Chad attacked the eastern town of Goz-Beida, and
Irish EU troops took up defensive positions between the fighting and a refugee
camp.
(Reuters, 6/14/08)
2008 Jun 18, A military official said Chad’s army has killed 161 rebels
in a battle in the eastern part of the country.
(SFC, 6/19/08, p.A17)
2008 Jun 30, Brahim Deby, the eldest son of Chad’s President Idriss Deby,
was found dead in the basement of his apartment building in a Paris suburb. He
was asphyxiated by chemicals from a fire extinguisher that lay near his body. In
late November Romanian police arrested a French-Romanian national identified as
Marius C. after on a warrant from France.
(AP, 11/28/08)(
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L02560147.htm)
2008 Jul 18, Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade said Sudan President Omar
al-Beshir has agreed to restore relations with Chad, more than two months after
Khartoum severed ties accusing Ndjamena of backing Darfur rebels.
(AFP, 7/18/08)
2008 Aug 15, In Chad a court sentenced former President Hissene Habre and
11 rebels to death. Habre was awaiting trial in Senegal for torture and murder.
(SFC, 8/16/08, p.A5)
2008 Nov 9, Troubled neighbors Chad and Sudan exchanged ambassadors, six
months after diplomatic ties were ruptured over tit-for-tat accusations of
support for armed rebels.
(AFP, 11/9/08)
2008 Chad’s population was about 10 million.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D5)
2009 Jan 14, The UN Security Council authorized 5,200 UN peacekeepers to
replace a 3,300-strong EU force in Chad and Central African Republic, which have
been seriously affected by fighting in neighboring Sudan's Darfur region.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 28, Five African and international human rights groups called on
the African Union to press Senegal to move forward with the trial of former
Chadian dictator Hissene Habre.
(AP, 1/28/09)
2009 Jan 28, French PM Francois Fillon said 1,000 French 1,650 soldiers
would be pulled out from the EUFOR mission to protect refugees in Chad. He also
says France's 1,800-strong contingent in Ivory Coast will be reduced by half.
(AP, 1/28/09)
2009 Jan 30, In Libreville, Gabon, leaders of the six Central African
states (Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, CAR, Congo, Equatorial Guinea), began meeting to
discuss closer economic ties, including the creation of a new regional airline.
The Economic and Monetary Union of Central Africa, known as CEMAC, planned
discussions on such issues as monetary reform and the free movement of citizens.
(AFP, 1/30/09)
2009 Feb 4, Poland’s defense minister stated plans to end military
missions in Lebanon, the Golan Heights and Chad in an effort to cut spending due
to the global economic crisis.
(AP, 2/4/09)
2009 Feb 14, Over 6,000 people have fled the Ndele region of the Central
African Republic for a Chadian border village after violence erupted between two
ethnic groups, the Runga and the Gulus.
(AFP, 2/14/09)
2009 Feb 19, Belgium took Senegal to the International Court of Justice
over the African nation's failure to prosecute a former Chad president for
crimes against humanity and torture.
(AP, 2/20/09)
2009 Mar 15, In Abeche, Chad, UN forces took over command from EU
peacekeepers to protect refugees and displaced people in Chad and the Central
African Republic.
(AFP, 3/15/09)
2009 Apr 6, Belgium began World Court proceedings against Senegal in an
effort to bring former Chad President Hissene Habre on trial for alleged
widespread human rights abuses during his eight-year reign. A Chadian commission
of inquiry has concluded that Habre's regime killed at least 3,780 political
opponents, but added that the figure likely represents only 10 percent of his
victims.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 May 5, Sudan denied accusations by the government of Chad that its
forces had launched an attack against the neighboring African state.
(AFP, 5/5/09)
2009 May 8, Chad’s government claimed that 225 rebels and 22 soldiers had
been killed in clashes over the last 2 days south of the main eastern city of
Abeche.
(AFP, 5/9/09)
2009 May 16, Sudan accused Chad of mounting a second series of air
strikes on its territory and said the conflict between the African neighbors
must be resolved politically.
(AFP, 5/16/09)
2009 May 17, Chad said its air force had completed raids on "mercenaries"
inside Sudan, announcing its aircraft had destroyed seven groups of fighters
while ground forces had captured 100 prisoners on the border.
(Reuters, 5/17/09)
2009 Jun 16, The US added six African countries to a blacklist of
countries trafficking in people, and put US trading partner Malaysia back on the
list. Chad, Eritrea, Niger, Mauritania, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe were added to
the list in the annual report. Removed from the list were Qatar, Oman, Algeria,
and Moldova.
(AFP, 6/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, The Chadian rebel Union of Forces of Resistance (UFR)
claimed the Chadian air force attacked two villages in the southeastern Chadian
region of Tissi. Rebels claimed some 50 had been killed some 100 wounded. Sudan
accused Chad of launching air raids on its western region of Darfur.
(AFP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 19, Sudan said it was committed to peace with neighboring
Chad after accusing it of bombing its western Darfur region last week, but also
warned it would not be held back if threatened.
(AFP, 7/19/09)
2009 Sep 9, Conservationists said poaching and drought-related hunger
have killed more than 100 of Kenya's famous elephants in the north of the
country so far this year. Around 23,000 elephants live in Kenya but populations
can be devastated by poaching within a couple of years. A recent survey in Chad
showed its elephant population had declined from 3,800 to just over 600 in the
past three years.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 30, Amnesty International said tens of thousands of women who
fled unrest in Darfur face the daily threat or rape and violence in refugee
camps in neighboring Chad.
(AP, 9/30/09)
2009 Nov 9, In eastern Chad a French Red Cross staff member was abducted
by several armed men, close to the border with Sudan. Laurent Maurice was freed
in Sudan on Feb 6.
(AFP, 11/10/09)(AP, 2/7/10)
2009 Dec 24, A delegation headed by Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki
Mahamat met Sudanese Omar al-Beshir and helped restore trust between the
neighbors.
(AFP, 12/25/09)
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