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Drought in Sahel Could Become a Catastrophe for 13 Million

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: West Africa, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Food Crisis, Refugees, Oxfam, Chad, Appeal, Saehl, Burkina, Video, World News

Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a full scale humanitarian emergency in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa if urgent action is not taken.

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Hunger In West Africa: Putting You In Their Shoes

World Vision | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Drought, Hunger, World Vision, Children, Nutrition, Health, West Africa, Chad, Mothers, World News

You are in a small health clinic in southern Chad. It is 9 a.m. The air is hot, dry, and filled with cries. You are amidst 40 mothers sitting on the ...

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Sahel in 10 Pictures: The Food Crisis in West Africa

Louis Belanger | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: West Africa, Oxfam, Mauritania, Chad, Burkina Faso, Niger, Food Crisis, Sahel, West Africa Food Crisis, Exposure, World News

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Helping Former Child Soldiers Return to Normal in Chad (PHOTOS)

Christian Fuchs | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: JRS/USA, Jesuit, Sudan, Education, Jesuit Refugee Service, Chad, Darfur, Child Soldiers, Refugees, Slidefreestyle, Photography, Photos, Central Africa, Religion, Africa, Exposure, Impact News

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A Call To Action In Advance Of World Polio Day

Bill Gates | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: India, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Polio, Australia, United Kingdom, Chad, Pakistan, Nigeria, Canada, Polio Vaccine, Activism, Impact News

World Polio Day is simultaneously a celebration and a call to action. It's a celebration because in the past 20 years, polio cases are down 99 percent. But it's also a call to action because we haven't done enough yet.

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U.S.: Don't Finance Child Soldiers

Human Rights Watch | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Somalia, Barack Obama, Child Soldiers, World News

(New York) – The US government should reverse its decision to continue military assistance to governments using child soldiers, Human Rights Wat...

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Obama Waives Penalties On Countries That Employ Child Soldiers – Again

Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Samantha Power, Ban Against Child Soldiers, Chad, Child Soldiers, Dan Baer, Child Soldiers Protection Act, Jo Becker, South Sudan, Politics News

President Barack Obama has decided to waive almost all the legally mandated penalties for countries that use child soldiers and provide those countrie...

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Trapped Libyan Migrant Workers Evacuated To Chad

AP | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Libya, Migrant Workers Libya, Chad, Migrant Workers, International Organization for Migration, Libya Chad, Qasim Sufi, Sabha, World News

GENEVA -- The International Organization for Migration says more than 1,200 migrant workers and family members sheltering in the southern Libyan city ...

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The Surprising Truth About The World's Most Expensive Cities

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Tokyo, Brasil, Mercer, Hong Kong, Chad, Slidepollajax, Japan, Luanda, Angola, Cost of Living Survey 2011, Most Expensive Cities in the World 2011, World News

Want to know where you'll spend and where you'll to save? Each year, consulting firm Mercer carries out its Cost of Living Survey and compiles a ranki...

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Senegal Reportedly To Send Ex-Dictator Back To Chad

AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Hissene Habre Case, Hissene Habre Senegal, Chad, Senegal, Hissene Habre Chad, Hissene Habre, World News

DAKAR, Senegal — In a puzzling twist to a 20-year saga, Senegal's government informed Chad's government Friday that former dictator Hissene Habr...

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Obama Easing Restrictions On Child Soldiers

The Cable | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Child Soldiers, US Child Soldier Policy, Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Chad, Child Soldiers, Obama Child Soldiers, World News

On Monday, the Obama administration waived sections of a law meant to prevent the recruitment of child soldiers in Africa, paving the way for new mili...

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White House Says Child Soldiers Are Okay, if They Fight Terrorists

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, White House, Yemen, War on Terror, Children, Terrorism, Chad, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Burma, War, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Military, Sudan, Africa, Somalia, Refugees, Politics News

America's hypocrisy on children in war has many layers. President Obama condemns the practice in theory, then undermines federal law by issuing waivers for our partners in Africa and the Middle East.

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Failed States Index 2010: Somalia Tops The List

Foreign Policy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chad, Failed States, Failed States Index, Foreign Policy, Somalia, World News

The 10 states that fill out the top ranks of this year's Failed States Index -- the world's most vulnerable nations -- are a sadly familiar bunch. Sha...

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World Refugee Day: Remember the Millions Displaced Around the World

Rory Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee, Slideshow, World Refugee Day, Refugees, Sudan, Chad, Haiti, World News

For too many people around the world, displacement is a regular part of their lives, and there is no end in sight.

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UNICEF in Chad: Is a picture worth a thousand calories?

Christal Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, Unicef, Chad, Africa, World News

Just because the headlines about hunger in Africa aren't as prominent doesn't mean the crisis has lessened, more likely it's our tolerance for hearing...

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Renewing Africa's Commitment to Health

Amb. Mahamat Adam Bechir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Egypt, Chad, Africa, Africa Day, World News

As Africans came together in unity to celebrate Africa Day today on May 25, we reflect on the progress we have made and the challenges that remain as we work toward achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

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Going, Going Gone: UN Troops in Chad, Home to Darfur Victims (updates)

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur Sudan, Un Peacekeepers, Idriss Deby, Austria, John Holmes, Chad, Unhcr, World News

No one quite knows why but the United Nations is pulling its peacekeepers out of Chad, home to hundreds of thousands of victims of Sudan's war in Darfur. The government of President Idriss Déby wants it that way.

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A Screaming Man at Cannes: Chad Director Speaks About Failed Fathers

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Screaming Man, Un Homme Qui Crie, African Film, Cannes Film Festival 2010, Chad, Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, Cannes Film Festival, Entertainment News

It's the only film from sub-Saharan Africa in the Competition at Cannes: Mahamet-Saleh Haroun's deeply sad movie about a father, fired from his job as a pool attendant, who betrays his own son.

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Famine in Chad

Mia Farrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mao, Drought, Famine, Chad, Kanem, Starvation, World News

Mao is a sand swept town in the Kanem region in the far west of Chad. It is the most desolate and powerfully beautiful place I have ever seen, and the babies there are dying.

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Food crisis in Sahel - Looking for food in anthills

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: West Africa, Global Food Crisis, Oxfam, Oxfam International, Food Crisis, Chad, Sahel, World News

Almost 10 million people across West Africa are facing a food crisis following erratic rains that have caused poor food harvests and water shortages. ...

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Chad, Home to Sudanese Refugees, Wants UN to Leave

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Un Peacekeepers, Idriss Deby, Human Rights Watch, Darfur, West Africa, Sudan, Chad, Alain Le Roy, Refugees, John Holmes, World News

In this barren sandy moonscape, UN troops replaced European peacekeepers last March. Recently, Chad asked the UN to leave, but the reasons for their request are opaque.

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Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Philippines, Muslim Brotherhood, Al Shabbab, Somalia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Mandela, Costa Rica, South Africa, Iran, Ukraine, Marjah, Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Sudan, Nigeria, Chad, North Korea, World News

This Week's Top Story in Foreign Affairs: Iran Ramps it Up This week, on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the Iranian gover...

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Justice Denied in Africa

Reed Brody | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Human Rights, Chad, Africa, Hissene Habre, Senegal, Crimes Against Humanity, Torture, World News

A fair trial for Hissene Habré would strike a blow against the cycle of impunity in which leaders brutalize their countries, pillage their treasuries and then eventually move next door to join their bank accounts.

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A Crucial Year Ahead for Sudan

Rob Crilly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur, Omar Al-Bashir, Sudan, Chad, Jem, Referendum, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, World News

Twice in 2010 voters will go to the polls in make or break moments with the potential to cement slow-running reforms or tip Africa's biggest nation into the abyss.

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A new article on the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline

Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chad, Cameroon, Home News

I read a strong piece today on AlterNet, A Humanitarian Disaster in the Making Along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline -- Who's W...

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