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...concert as its main event. The committee regards the Ben Folds performance, with its free admission as well as its location in the Yard, as statements of their commitment to the undergraduate experience. Not everyone agrees with the committee’s new focus. While some students, such as Chad R. Cannon ’09, expressed enthusiasm for the Ben Folds performance—“I’m planning on being back here from New York so I can go to it,” he says—others show less interest.Catherine L.H. Matthews...
Africa's wars have a terrible habit of spilling across borders. To diplomats in Sudan, it seemed only a matter of time before the brutal three-year-old conflict in the country's Darfur province followed suit, posing particular risk to landlocked, unstable Chad to the west. And indeed, this morning, residents of Chad?s capital, N?Djamena, woke up to find a small group of rebels trying to enter the city and battling government soldiers street by street. The gunfire and shelling began at dawn and, according to a BBC reporter in N?Djamena, lasted two hours before...
...rebels, many of them defectors from Chad?s 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...
...rebels accuse President Deby of running a dictatorship and say they will bring democracy to the country, which has been exploiting its oil riches for just a few years. Successive governments in Chad have put down regular uprisings, but this insurgency seems more serious: the ongoing conflict in Darfur has given the rebels a secure base from which to attack. "Chad is a sister state to Darfur," says Dr. Eltayeb Hag Ateya, the director of the Center for Conflict Research at the University of Khartoum. "All the presidents of Chad are either installed by or forced out by forces that...
...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...