Chad, Sudan and Darfur: Creeping Conflict

A proposal by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to send peacekeepers to Chad and the Central African Republic has confirmed analysts’ concerns that the Darfur conflict has become a complex proxy war between neighbours. And funding for the latest rounds in the intractable crises is apparently coming from oil.

The World Today Updated 15 October 2020 Published 1 April 2007 5 minute READ

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