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Chad

Jul 2001"Signing bonus" that two oil companies paid Chad in April 2000 in order to join an oil-exploration project: $25,000,000
Source:

The World Bank (Washington)

February 15, 2008 Sudanese aircraft and Janjaweed militiamen attacked three villages in West Darfur, killing as many as 114 civilians and driving 12,000 more refugees into neighboring Chad, where they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees already there.
Source 1:

New York Times

Source 2:

Reuters

February 14, 2008 Chadian President Idriss Déby declared a state of emergency.
Source 1:

New York Times

Source 2:

Reuters

December 8, 2007Six French charity workers held prisoner in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, went on hunger strike to protest the charges against them, which include trying to kidnap 103 children from Chadian villages near Darfur. The prisoners claim that they thought the children were orphans.
Source:

BBC

October 24, 2006The government of Niger told 150,000 Arab nationals that it was “high time” they returned to their native homeland in Chad.
Source:

BBC News

JULY 2008

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