A Chadian court on Friday sentenced a former president and 11 rebels to death for crimes against the state, an official said.
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/ 21 December 2007
Six French aid workers on trial on kidnapping charges in Chad were trying to save children they believed to be Darfur orphans, and therefore are protected by international law from any charges, their lawyers said on Friday moments before the trial began.
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/ 27 November 2007
Soldiers and rebels have both claimed to have killed several hundred of their opponents in combat on Monday in eastern Chad. The battles at Abougouleigne left ”several hundred [rebels] dead, several injured and several prisoners of war”, according to the statement from the army’s general staff.