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Violence drives thousands of Central Africans into Chad

WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.

Original Post Date: 2005-06-21 Time: 00:00:00  Posted By: Jan

[Here is another example showing how Blacks don”t get along with each other. Look at the ongoing “African Trend” of “Mass Migration by Violence”. All across Africa you will see thousands, even millions of Blacks fleeing from one country to another due to political violence. And then, finally, those who can… flee the continent altogether.

I think in the long run, one should consider the possibility that Black countries will start breaking into smaller pieces. Jan]

N”DJAMENA, Chad (Reuters) — About 8,500 refugees from Central African Republic have fled into neighboring Chad after clashes between soldiers and unidentified armed groups, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has sent high-protein biscuits, plastic sheeting and cooking sets to the refugees who have sought shelter in villages around the town of Yambodo, straining scarce resources.

“Most of them told us they fled their homes by night because of the insecurity which has intensified since June 3,” Georges Menze, who heads UNHCR”s office in Chad”s southern town of Gore, said in a statement.

Central African Republic, a former French colony, is one of the world”s poorest countries and has been shaken by a series of attempted coups and mutinies in the past decade.

Former army chief Francois Bozize seized power in a coup in 2003, helped by mercenaries from Chad.

Bozize won a presidential election in May, legitimizing his position after two years of military rule. However, some of those hired guns he used two years ago have turned to banditry.

Many of the new refugees are women and children from the Ouham region of northern Central African Republic. A UNHCR official in Chad said more refugees had arrived on Thursday.

“Some are staying with host families, others have started building makeshift shelters with wood and straw. …They are foraging for fruit in the wild. Food is scarce for everyone because of the drought and poor harvest,” Menze said.

Seasonal rains have added to the misery. Some of the refugees were suffering from diarrhea and malnutrition.

Chad, an arid former French colony hoping to get rich from a southern oil field, is already host to 30,000 refugees who fled Central African Republic after the 2003 coup.

There are also about 210,000 refugees from Sudan”s Darfur region in the barren borderlands of eastern Chad.

“Life was very hard for the local population even before the refugees arrived and there are fears that the recent influx will further strain limited resources,” the UNHCR statement said.

“The health and sanitation situation has not reached alarming levels yet but could quickly deteriorate,” said Thadee Nzontunga, an aid worker with Italian nongovernment organization COOPI, in the UNHCR statement.

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