EUFOR in the Chadian Theatre
by Anne Holmes
When the sun comes up in eastern Chad, the dawn of a new day brings with it a host of daunting challenges. Soon the temperatures will rise …
Notes on the Darfur Refugee Crisis
Camp Iridimi, Eastern Chad
I spent a month wandering around eastern Chad, along the border with Sudan, where some 250,000 Darfuris fled a genocidal conflict to settle in massive refugee …
Firefight in Abeche
by Anne Holmes
In Abeche now, the day was very calm. After checking with various people about the security situation, we took a drive up north to Biltine to have …
Chad Day 1
Arrival in N’djamena, Chad June 17, 2008.
Things are calm in the capital after a series of rebel attacks in the east destabilized regular proceedings and raised the alert levels …
