Word: chad
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Three influential humanitarians urged members of the Harvard community yesterday evening to increase their awareness of the crisis in Chad, which has been escalating since rebel forces first tried to overthrow the president in April 2006. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI)—a University-wide program supporting the practice of humanitarian response worldwide—organized the event to educate students about the recent crisis in Chad and its relation to the ongoing military conflict in Darfur. The panel featured HHI Fellow Alex W. de Waal; Heinz J. Henghuber, a former head of Doctors without Borders; and UNICEF...
...left Democratic voters in what is arguably the nation's most crucial swing state feeling dissed, disenfranchised and, it now seems, disinclined to back whomever the Democratic candidate is in November. And that could harm the party's White House bid as severely as any butterfly ballot or hanging chad ever...
Sudan's killing fields have grown. Fighting along Darfur's western border has spilled into Chad, where a separate civil war is brewing, and rebel attacks against Chinese-run oil fields and Sudanese police garrisons in the neighboring region of Kordofan threaten to push the war eastward. The rebels say the attacks against China's assets are justified by Beijing's support for the Sudanese regime. But while China has since exerted some limited pressure on Khartoum to resolve its crises, the rebel raids could serve only to expand the theater of hostilities...
...Harvard is trying too hard. Chad Morin goes for a check but grabs the neck of his opponent. Another Big Red man advantage...
...Darfur organization he helped found, Not on Our Watch, has given away more than $9 million. But now, just three weeks back from having a 14-year-old border guard shove a machine gun at his chest, after recovering from malaria, after helicoptering out of N'Djamena, Chad, in a sandstorm three days before the rebels sacked it, he wonders if his critics are right, if this scheme to use celebrity to bring attention to the world's plights isn't, if not vanity, at least striving after wind. "I've been very depressed since I got back...