Country: Chad
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 Chad
CHAD News:
20080212
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 Sudan
- Chad
-  Military
-  Politics
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- "New
wave of Darfur refugees flee into Chad." ... "Fighting
in the volatile Sudanese region of Darfur has sparked a another wave of
refugees into Chad and left a Red Cross employee dead, according to international
agencies." ... "The U.N. [United Nations] High Commissioner for Refugees
said on Monday that more than 12,000 people have fled militia attacks over
the last few days from Sudan's Darfur region to neighboring Chad, still
recovering from a recent attempt by rebels there to topple the government."
... "Before the latest flight into Chad, the UNHCR and its partner groups
"were taking care of 240,000 Sudanese refugees in 12 camps in eastern Chad
and some 50,000 from Central African Republic in the south of the country."
Up to 30,000 people in Chad fled the country for Cameroon during the rebel-government
fighting." ... "The United Nations says "more than 200,000 people have
been killed and 2.2 million others forced to flee their homes since fighting
began in 2003 among government forces, rebel groups and allied militia
groups known as the Janjaweed."" -CNN
20070618
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 Analysis
-  Countries
-  People
-  Law
-  Money
-  Environment
- Religion
-  Terrorism
-  Nuclear
- Military
- Politics
- "The
Failed States Index 2007." ... "The world’s weakest
states aren’t just a danger to themselves. They can threaten the progress
and stability of countries half a world away." ... "The problems that plague
failing states are generally all too similar: rampant corruption, predatory
elites who have long monopolized power, an absence of the rule of law,
and severe ethnic or religious divisions." ... "For the second year in
a row, Sudan tops the rankings as the state most at risk of failure. The
primary cause of its instability, violence in the country’s western region
of Darfur, is as well known as it is tragic. At least 200,000 people—and
perhaps as many as 400,000—have been killed in the past four years by janjaweed
militias armed by the government, and 2 to 3 million people have fled their
torched villages for squalid camps as the violence has spilled into the
Central African Republic and Chad. These countries were hardly pictures
of stability prior to the influx of refugees and rebels across their borders;
the Central African Republic plays host to a modern-day slave trade, and
rebels attacked Chad’s capital in April 2006 in a failed coup attempt.
But the spillover effects from Sudan have a great deal to do with the countries’
tumble in the rankings, demonstrating that the dangers of failing states
often bleed across borders. That is especially worrying for a few select
regions. This year, eight of the world’s 10 most vulnerable states are
in sub-Saharan Africa, up from six last year and seven in 2005." ... "That
is not to say that all failing states suffer from international neglect.
Iraq and Afghanistan, the two main fronts in the global war on terror,
both suffered over the past year. Their experiences show that billions
of dollars in development and security aid may be futile unless accompanied
by a functioning government, trustworthy leaders, and realistic plans to
keep the peace and develop the economy." ... "Today, two countries among
the world’s 15 most vulnerable, North Korea and Pakistan, are members of
the nuclear club. Their profiles could hardly be less similar: The former
faces the very real prospect of economic collapse, followed by massive
human flight, while the latter presides over a lawless frontier country
and a disenchanted Islamist opposition whose ranks grow by the day." (1
of 9)
2
"The world’s weakest states are also the most religiously intolerant",
3
"several vulnerable states took a step back from the brink",
4
"Three of the five worst performing states—Chad, Sudan, and Zimbabwe—have
leaders who have been in power for more than 15 years",
5
"correlation between stability and environmental sustainability",
6
"world’s failing states tend to cluster together",
7
"A dozen countries among the 60 most vulnerable contain “virtual states”",
8
Failed State Rankings,
9
"FAQ and Methodology"
-FundForPeace.org/fsi
-ForeignPolicy.com
[Below are the 20 most vulnerable countries out of
60 countries listed out of 177 countries examined and ranked by the
Fund for Peace's Conflict
Assessment System Tool (CAST) that uses 12
indicators of country vulnerability for it's country stability analysis.]
"[Failed
State] The Rankings."
-FundForPeace.org/fsi -ForeignPolicy.com
1
Sudan
2 
Iraq
3 
Somalia
4 
Zimbabwe
5
Chad
6 
Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
7 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
8 
Afghanistan
9 
Guinea
10 
Central African Republic
11 
Haiti
12 
Pakistan
13 
North Korea
14 
Burma (Myanmar)
15 
Uganda
16 
Bangladesh
17 
Nigeria
18 
Ethiopia
19 
Burundi
20 
Timor-Leste (East Timor)
20051018
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Chad
- Bangladesh
-
 Iceland
- "Group:
Chad, Bangladesh are most corrupt." ... "Bangladesh
and Chad were ranked most corrupt on a global watchdog group's annual list
of corruption levels in 159 nations, released Tuesday. At the other end
of the scale, Iceland was ranked least corrupt." ... "To form its annual
corruption index, Transparency International asked businessmen, academics
and public officials about how countries they live in or do business with
are perceived." ... "On a scale of one to 10, Bangladesh and Chad both
scored 1.7, meaning that graft is perceived as being rampant. The least
corrupt country, Iceland, scored 9.7." -By Emily Behlmann
-AP via -SeattlePI.NWsource
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Sudan
-
 Police
- "Chaos
Grows in Darfur Conflict as Militias Turn on Government."
... "The outlaws who rode into Geneina [Sudan] on camelback one recent
afternoon represent the latest grim chapter in the desert war in western
Sudan." ... "Janjaweed militias have focused their wrath on innocent villagers
for most of the two and a half years of the conflict in the Darfur region.
But on Sept. 18, in a scene that aid workers described as something out
of a Hollywood western, the militiamen surrounded the police station along
Sudan's border with Chad, roughed up the chief and freed several of their
members from jail." ... "The fact that militias trained and armed by the
government are now emboldened enough to turn their guns on the government
is a sign of trouble. It was government support of the janjaweed at the
outset that ignited the fighting in Darfur that killed tens of thousands
of people and displaced two million villagers." (1, 2)
-By Marc Lacey -NYTimes
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