News clips, commentary, short stories and random musings about my life growing up in Chad, Africa, right next door to Darfur. For 11 years I lived with an amazing group of people who survived under the most dire of circumstances. But this has changed - my friends are now dying in this century's worst humanitarian crisis. This blog is a chance to share with the world what the people of this region are like - before they become bodies dying in the dust.
Monday, May 29, 2006
UN Threatens to Cut Off Refugee Camps in Chad
May 27, 2006: The UN is threatening to cut off supplies to some refugee camps unless Sudanese rebels stop using the camps as bases. The Sudanese rebels often have family in the camps, and usually come into the camps wearing military uniforms (the favorite attire of both the Sudanese paramilitaries and the rebels on both sides of the border.) Chad is responsible for security at the refugee camps, but because of the expanding civil war in Chad, the army is too busy trying to keep president Deby in power, to worry about refugee camps. Chad's security forces were never very efficient in the first place, but now the border with Sudan is apparently wide open for any truckload of guys with guns.
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