Chad (merged thread)

[BayonetBrant]

tangential article, but likely worth the 10 minutes it'll take to read:

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/14/w...ota-hilux.html

[student2010]

I have alot of secondary sources and I would love to have a good number of primary sources from Chadian participants, particularly toubou fighters.

[davidbfpo]

Elsewhere student2010 has posted unable to proceed with this subject and has a new RFI for a different theatre.

[davidbfpo]

A long article in FP 'Our man in Africa', namely Hissne Habr, at one time Chad's President and at the helm in the 'Toyota War' with Libya. It appears to place a lot of information, plus some new details in one place. I don't recall this happening, but a "week is a long time in politics":

Two AWACS surveillance planes, a contingent of F-15s, and tanker aircraft, along with some 600 U.S. support personnel, were deployed to Sudan to assist Habrs counteroffensive.

Link:http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/24/...FlashPoints%20[Manual]RSbestofprint

Note the focus is on Habre's human rights record and his pending prosecution in Senegal in 2015, after fleeing Chad twentytwo years ago.

[davidbfpo]

Hat tip to New Yorker magazine for this 'long read' on Lake Chad and the surrounding context, mainly for one nation: Chad. It deserves a read, if only to illustrate the human aspects and the policy mess around the steadily shrinking lake itself.

Link:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...arian-disaster

A "taster" passage:

In recent months, I have asked many American diplomatic and military officials to define a coherent long-term strategy for the region, but none of them have been able to articulate more than a vague wish: that by improving local governments and institutions, encouraging democratic tendencies, and facilitating development, the international community can defeat terrorism. In Chad, the security-based approach mistakes the strengthening of Dbys regime for the stabilization of the Chadian state. The strategy is a paradox: in pursuing stability, it strengthens the autocrat, but, in strengthening the autocrat, it enables him to further abuse his position, exacerbating the conditions that lead people to take up arms.

There are several threads on the region, notably those on Chad, Mali, Niger and Nigeria. Chad thread, with 50 posts and 41.6k views:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=4824