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Eating Around the World I object strongly to the image of the Chadian family pictured in "How the World Eats" [June 25-July 2]. While you showed other families in other parts of the world in the relative comfort of their homes and flush with food, you depicted a Chadian family in a refugee camp with meager rations. Has the whole of Africa turned into one big refugee camp, so that there isn't even one functional family that could have been pictured? The black American family pictured on the next page was cold comfort. Bukola Eleso, lagos...
...Darfur was hard before, people will be really confused by the coming attraction: It’s Sudanese government forces against rebel forces, one rebel group against an alliance of other rebel groups, the neighboring country of Chad backing some but not all these rebels, Sudan sponsoring other Chadian rebels, and, of course, the pinwheel of Darfur’s genocide, that which never changes—Arab militias killing black peasants en masse...
...army, have set up camps across the border in lawless Darfur. Chad?s President Idriss Deby says Sudan?s government in Khartoum backs the rebellion. Sudan denies the accusation and, in turn, says Chad supports Sudanese rebel groups in Darfur. One thing is certain: in October, hundreds of discontented Chadian soldiers deserted their barracks and fled to Darfur. An American military advisor in the region told TIME before Christmas that there were at least 800 well-armed fighters along the border, possibly more. Recent estimates put the figure in the thousands...
...fighting continues - and spreads. Earlier this year, Libya brokered a non-belligerence pact between Chad and Sudan. But soon after the leader of the Chadian rebels, Mohammad Nour, 35, told TIME it "is not serious" Sitting on the outskirts of a camp along the Chad-Sudan border under the shade of a mango tree he contemplated his next move. "I?m not going to be under these trees much longer," he said...
...alleged 1988 deal to trade a jailed Arab terrorist for the release of three French hostages held in Lebanon. The French government denies making any deal to free the hostages beyond agreeing to restore diplomatic relations with Iran. At week's end an unknown group calling itself the Secret Chadian Resistance claimed responsibility, as part of a campaign to rid Africa of "all military colonial forces...