<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Chad</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/northafrica/chad?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><description>Chad</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[More Evidence of Skull's Link to Humans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32376-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32376-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Scientists who three years ago discovered a nearly complete 7 million-year-old skull in central Africa have dug up additional evidence supporting the conclusion that the skull belonged to the earliest known human ancestor.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Targeting the Teachers of Darfur]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9539-2004Aug17.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9539-2004Aug17.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Since violence erupted about 18 months ago, the African residents of Darfur have been uprooted, beaten, raped and left hungry. But the educated among them -- teachers, students and community leaders -- say they are being particularly targeted.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudan Orders Pursuit Of Outlawed Groups]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54909-2004Jun19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54909-2004Jun19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  KHARTOUM, Sudan, June 19 -- Sudan's president  has ordered a "complete mobilization" to disarm all illegal armed groups in the western region of Darfur, including the Arab militias that have been harassing African villagers.]]></description><author> Nima Elbagir</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oil Wealth Trickles Into Chad, but Little Trickles Down]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54448-2004Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54448-2004Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[KOME, Chad -- Oil executives who roam the red dirt roads here have started to call Chad the new Persian Gulf. But the citizens of this town of mud huts have nicknamed their community "I'm Waiting," as in waiting for jobs, waiting for wealth, waiting for schools to be built, and waiting for AIDS drugs.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chad Broken by Strain of Suffering]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48199-2004Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48199-2004Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As thousands more refugees flee war in Sudan, desperately poor villagers in Chad are breaking under the strain of sharing their brittle soil and scarce water with the newcomers.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chad's Ambassador Takes a Stance That Could Put His Name Back on the Map]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40442-2004Jan22.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40442-2004Jan22.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Three years ago, when the name of his country began popping up in puns in Washington -- a result of the electoral fiasco in the United States -- Chad's ambassador,    Ahmat Soubiane Hassaballah , never imagined that he would find himself in the position he is in today: contesting his president's attempts to rule indefinitely.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Libya to Pay $170 Million In '89 Airline Bombing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4119-2004Jan9.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4119-2004Jan9.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The deal was the latest step by Gaddafi to try to end his nation's long international isolation and shed his image as one of the sponsors of anti-Western terrorism in the 1980s.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Bank to Back Oil Pipeline]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A478-2003Nov4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A478-2003Nov4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A planned 1,100-mile pipeline to carry oil from the Caspian Sea toward world markets won a $125 million loan commitment from the World Bank on Tuesday after the Azerbaijani government agreed to issue audited reviews on how it spends $29 billion in projected oil revenue.]]></description><author> Peter Behr</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efforts to Stop Polio Will Extend to Chad]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31326-2003Oct28.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31326-2003Oct28.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A polio outbreak spreading from a longtime hotbed of the disease in northern Nigeria has reached Chad, the fourth African nation this year to experience a resurgence of the disease, which public health authorities hope to eradicate globally by 2005.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polio Reemerges in West Africa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7357-2003Sep26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7357-2003Sep26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The 15-year campaign to eradicate polio is suffering its second major setback in two years, with the disease spreading in Nigeria and spilling into several polio-free countries nearby.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sources: Taylor Went to Libya for Arms]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31811-2003Aug7.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31811-2003Aug7.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[U.S. unable to confirm whether Liberian president recently returned from Libya with a cargo of ammunition and arms.]]></description><author> Karl Vick</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebel Force Advances in C. African Republic]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38529-2002Oct29.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38529-2002Oct29.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rebels backing the ousted army chief moved to within two blocks of the presidential residence today in the fifth day of an attempt to topple President Ange-Felix Patasse.]]></description><author> Joseph Benamsse</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earliest Human Ancestor?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50035-2002Jul10.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50035-2002Jul10.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The 7 million-year-old skull offers the first opportunity to study a human fossil from the remote slice of time when humans and apes diverged from a common ancestor.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chadian Activist Brings Her Battle To Washington]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16329-2001Jan3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16329-2001Jan3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Delphine K. Djiraibe, a battle-hardened human rights advocate from the central African country of Chad, illustrates how the age of globalization and information technology has transformed lobbying into an intercontinental trade that brings activists from even the remotest corners of the globe to Washington to press their causes.]]></description><author> David B. Ottaway</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NGOs Shape Oil Deal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15665-2001Jan3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15665-2001Jan3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Organizations have exerted strong influence on a private-sector oil pipeline project in Chad.]]></description><author> Douglas Farah and David B. Ottaway</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Bank Reassesses Chad Pipeline Deal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23916-2000Dec4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23916-2000Dec4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In June, when the World Bank agreed to back a controversial, 650-mile oil pipeline from this impoverished desert nation to Africa's Atlantic coast, it declared that it had found a way to prevent corrupt officials from stealing the country's new wealth.]]></description><author> Douglas Farah and David B. Ottaway</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Hears Chad's Cries]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60073-2000Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60073-2000Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In court, Chadians are pursuing the brutal former dictator, Hissene Habre, and his collaborators, many of whom still hold power.]]></description><author> Douglas Farah</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[African Eyes Opened by Ex-Leader's Indictment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13661-2000Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13661-2000Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In Africa, where for decades rulers have done pretty much as they wished--torturing, executing and jetting into comfortable exile when finally deposed--what happened in Senegal this week represented a stunning reversal of fortune.]]></description><author> Karl Vick</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Chad Dictator Faces Pinochet Test]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34640-2000Jan27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34640-2000Jan27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica/chad</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Calling him "Africa's Pinochet," human rights groups and individuals who say they were tortured under the rule of Hissene Habre, the former dictator of Chad, are trying to prosecute him in Senegal, where Habre has lived in exile since 1990.]]></description><author> Karl Vick</author></item></channel></rss>