Chad
France begins airlift for Chadian, Sudanese refugees
French military planes on Sunday began airlifting tonnes of relief supplies and food aid to refugee camps in eastern Chad in one of the first overseas humanitarian initiatives ordered by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The operation followed a visit this month to the camps near the border with Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region by Sarkozy's foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).
{..I can't think of a better background for a foreign minister to have than MSF...}
Conflict spreading into eastern Chad
Violence is spilling over into Chad (again).
ABECHE, Chad: Attacks on civilians and aid groups have intensified sharply along the Chad-Sudan border in the last two weeks, as the violence in Darfur continues to spill over into its African neighbor.
The violence is leading the United Nations to consider a new option: Stymied by a lack of progress on a proposal to put peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region, it now is weighing trying to put more than 10,000 peacekeepers in Chad along its border with Sudan.