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Article: If Chad coup succeeds, Darfur crisis could deepen.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 4, 2008
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Byline: Scott Baldauf Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Johannesburg, South Africa -- With rebels in the heart of Chad's capital, N'Djamena, surrounding the presidential palace, the complex Darfur conflict is set to take a dramatic and unexpected turn.
If President Idriss Deby's government falls by military coup, humanitarian aid operations feeding nearly 400,000 Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadians will be thrown into disarray, and half a dozen Darfur rebel movements taking refuge in Chad may be forced to move their bases back into the troubled Sudanese region.
Coming just days before the expected arrival of a European Union ...