Written by Armel Ramadji Doumnande, RAMADJI.com
Sunday, 07 October 2007
A few days ago, a small Chadian rebel group dubbed CDRT signed a “deal” with the Chadian to stop fighting. On October 3rd, 2007, reports coming from Tripoli and relayed by several media outlets mentioned another “peace agreement” between the regime of General Idriss Deby Itno and [...]

By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
WASHINGTON, May 7 — A committee of World Bank directors has formally notified Paul D. Wolfowitz that they found him to be guilty of a conflict of interest in arranging for a pay raise and promotion for Shaha Ali Riza, his companion, in 2005. The findings stepped up the pressure on Mr. [...]

N’DJAMENA, April 18 (Reuters) – Chad’s former head of state, Goukouni Weddeye, has offered to meet eastern rebels fighting President Idriss Deby to try to persuade them to begin peace talks, the Chadian presidency said on Wednesday.
Goukouni, who ruled the landlocked central African country from 1979 to 1982, when he was deposed by Deby’s [...]

15 Apr 2007 20:24:09 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) – Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said on Sunday he intends to continue his “important work” while leaving the controversy surrounding the promotion of his girlfriend to deliberations by the bank’s board of directors.
“This is important work and I intend to continue it,” Wolfowitz told [...]

15 Apr 2007 20:39:29 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) – Development ministers from around the globe on Sunday voiced “great concern” over World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz’s handling of his girlfriend’s promotion, but Wolfowitz said he intends to stay in his job.
“The current situation is of great concern to all of us,” [...]

By VOA News
15 April 2007
The African Union says gunmen in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region have killed another A.U. peacekeeper.
An A.U. spokesman says the unidentified attackers shot the peacekeeper and stole his vehicle late Saturday near the entrance of an A.U. compound in Al-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state. The nationality of the dead peacekeeper [...]

(Adds quotes from Chad foreign minister, background)
By Michael Georgy
KHARTOUM, April 14 (Reuters) – Chad’s foreign minister said on Saturday his country wanted a peaceful resolution to border conflict with Sudan but would use military force against rebels and Sudanese militias it accuses of entering its territory.
Ahmat Allam-Mi was in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on [...]

Source: Reuters
By Pascal Fletcher
DAKAR, April 12 (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is steering Chad’s opposition to a U.N. military peacekeeping force in its violence-torn east, where civilians are being killed in droves as a proposed U.N. deployment stalls, analysts say.
They say Gaddafi, a critic of Western democracy and self-styled champion of African [...]

N’DJAMENA, April 10 (Reuters) – Chad said on Tuesday its armed forces had clashed with Sudanese troops after pursuing Sudanese-backed rebels over the border on Monday.
Reversing a previous denial, Chad’s Communication Minister Hourmadji Moussa Doumgor said the Chadian army had used its “right of pursuit” to chase the rebels across the frontier into Sudan, [...]

On March 6, the U.S. State Department released the 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The reports, presented to Congress, address internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
To read the portion of the report on the situation of Human Rights in Chad, click [...]