Reuters: Chad News

Cameroon cocoa grinding off to slow start

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:54:04 +0000

YAOUNDE, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Cocoa purchases by Cameroon's sole domestic grinder, Sic-Cacaos, are running 86 percent below a year ago so far this season, possibly because of an equipment upgrade at the factory.

U.S. says Sudan's 2010 elections in doubt

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:19:27 +0000

* Strains raise fears north-south civil war could restart

UPDATE 1-FACTBOX-Foreigners held in Africa

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:43:39 +0000

Nov 26 (Reuters) - Gunmen have kidnapped a French national in Mali's remote east, a government source said on Thursday.

ANALYSIS-Uganda poised to become top-50 oil producer

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:04:37 +0000

* On course for 100,000-150,000 bpd of oil in five years

UPDATE 1-Peacekeepers should prepare to leave Darfur-Sudan

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:16:51 +0000

* Sudan violated agreement on deploying peacekeepers - UN

Sudan violates peacekeeper deployment agreement-UN

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:59:54 +0000

* Sudanese army limits movement of peacekeepers in Darfur

Troubled Chad moving to calmer phase-U.N. official

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:03:08 +0000

* Banditry main problem in bringing change * U.N. to launch social development project

Six groups suspend Chad aid after killing, kidnap

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:43:56 +0000

GENEVA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Six aid groups have suspended operations in eastern Chad following the killing of one worker, the kidnapping of another and a spate of banditry, the United Nations said on Friday.

RPT-Over 20 mln people need food aid in east Africa-UN

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:38:59 +0000

* War compounds food emergencies in Somalia, Sudan, Congo

French aid worker seized in Chad - ICRC

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:09:41 +0000

PARIS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A Frenchman working for the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) has been seized by armed men in eastern Chad, the aid group said on Tuesday.