Word: chadli
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...flew to Chad and drove east to the 21st century's first war over water. Darfur, a barren, mountainous land just below the Sahara in western Sudan, is one of the world's worst man-made disasters. Four years of fighting has killed 200,000 people and made refugees of 2.5 million more. The immediate cause is well known: the Arab supremacist janjaweed and their backers in the Sudanese government are waging a campaign to exterminate African and Arab settler farmers in Darfur by slaughter, rape and pillage, burning thousands of villages to the ground...
Perhaps a visit to northeastern Chad would change their minds. As I drove out to the area in spring 2007, the first sign we were entering a dead zone was the carcass of a camel. Camels can go three weeks without water in the Sahara, so the heap of fur, hair and bleached bones was an ominous sight. We entered a mud-walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of giving the usual smiles and waves, the children ducked away. A few minutes later, we crested a rise in the road and were confronted by nine janjaweed horsemen, rifles over their shoulders...
...Canvassing Board chooses not to consider the ballots, Franken may have to urge uncounted voters take the issue to the courts - further delaying a recount that is already expected to take three more weeks to conclude. The process may make everyone nostalgic for the simple days of hanging chad...
...imperative for the defense to be perfect, as the Crimson’s one-goal lead left no room for error. “That was a huge [penalty] kill,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “Jim Fraser, Alex Biega, Chad Morin, and Matt Hoyle I think really dug down deep. They were blocking shots. That’s always a very nerve-racking two minutes when the other team pretty much has the puck the entire time. We did a good job.” Hoyle was particularly impressive...
...effort to get other NATO countries to share the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) burden in Afghanistan, Merkel last week insisted she would not send German troops in the volatile southern region. And Sarkozy has already hinted that his forces are already stretched due to ongoing missions in Chad, Kosovo, Congo and Lebanon...