Chad News

Greetings from N'djamena, the capital of Chad. It is underappreciated that the metaphor Sarah Palin chose today to explain her decision to resign as governor of Alaska - "Only dead fish go with the flow" - is derived from political wisdom first learned and disseminated here along the Chari River.

N'Djamena - China's largest energy producer, China National Petroleum Corp , on Wednesday began work on a major oil pipeline in southwestern Chad, state media reported here.

Today is Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the third largest country by area on the African continent.

CLAWSON - Maureen Hoeltzel doesn't need the City of Clawson 4th of July Festival to remind her of the sacrifices military personnel make to assure the safety and freedom of Americans.

The United States has begun accepting the first group of 1,800 refugees it plans to resettle annually from communities and overburdened refugee camps in Chad.

A window into failure: Children peek through an artillery-battered wall of Mogadishu's Bakara Market, the country's largest open-air forum.

A refugee family in a makeshift shelter in eastern Chad. The United States will accept hundreds of the most vulnerable for resettlement 23 June 2009 &#150 As part of a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees programme, the first group of refugees has left Chad to begin new lives in the United States.

Arbitration relates to Egyptian operator's deal on transfer of shares in TchadMobile.

As it turns out, human rights are not the only atrocity being widely ignored in Africa.

Ndjamena - A former Guantanamo detainee freed by a US judge is being held by Chadian police pending confirmation of his status, the Chadian government said on Thursday.

Bangui - The government in the Central African Republic said on Wednesday that 15 rebels and three soldiers were killed in recent fighting in the north-west of the country.

VietNamNet Bridge a ' Students have begun flocking into HCM City to seek boarding houses to stay during the exam season.

Comments Mahmood Mamdani, a Uganda-born professor of anthropology and political science at Columbia University, has created a raging controversy over whether the Sudanese government's response to a six-year rebellion in Darfur constitutes a genocide.

Holidays are such an important part of each countries tradition along with supporting its culture.

Cameroon is an economic hub for Central Africa. Its lone port in Douala handles practically all import and export traffic for the country as well as for landlocked neighbors Chad and Central African Republic.

MONGO, Chad, JUNE 5, 2009 .- Benedict XVI has elevated the apostolic prefecture of Mongo to an apostolic vicariate, since the number of Catholics in the region has increased by 15% in the last 20 years.

The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on June 3, 2009, raised the Apostolic Prefecture of Mongo to the rank of Apostolic Vicariate, with the same name and territory.

Europea s military mission to Chad has suffered its first casualty and another soldier went missing after a patrol strayed into Sudan and clashed with Sudanese troops, European officials said on Tuesday.

Unexploded weaponry killed six children in eastern Chad in the weeks after a rebel offensive early last month, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported Wednesday.

Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi appealed to the Presidents of Chad and Sudan on Friday to settle their differences and end the current tension between the two neighboring countries.