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Chad

33 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Chad, 2004 CE to 2017 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

21st century

33 entries, 2004 CE to 2022 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 2004September 9: United States Secretary of State Colin Powell declares that the actions of the Janjaweed Arab militia in Darfur constitute genocide. Powell holds the government of Sudan responsible. Up to 50,000 ethnic Africans have been killed and 2.2 million displaced into refugee camps in neighboring Chad by ethnic Arab militias.Chadsource
  • 2004September 22: Experts and officials from Interpol and 19 countries met Tuesday in Burkina Faso to elaborate a strategy to combat terrorism and crime in Africa. Countries participating included Chad.Chadsource
  • 2005April 29 - Chad joins the Arab League as an observer state.Chadsource
  • 2005August 19 - 4,000 refugees from the Central African Republic enter chad, fleeing from violence.Chadsource
  • 2005September 27 - 2005 Chad attacks: 46 people are killed in clashes between Sudanese fighters and the Chadian government.Chadsource
  • 2006April 18 - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warns that violence from Chad could spread to neighboring Central African countries.Chadsource
  • 2006August 26 - President Déby forces oil companies Chevron and Petronas out of the country, citing that neither company had not paid taxes to the country.Chadsource
  • 2007August 27 - Pending arbitration by the International Trade Union Confederation, Chadian Union leaders suspend a strike by the country's civil servants which has disrupted public schools and hospitals since its beginning in May.Chadsource
  • 2007October 12 - United States evangelical missionary Steve Goldbold is kidnapped by MDJT rebels in the Tibesti region. The MDJT leader Aboubakar Choua Dazi accuses Goldbold to be "in the service of the regime in N'Djamena to create division in the center of the movement".Chadsource
  • 2007January 28 - Ethnic Zaghawa militias raid in Dar Tama a group of Tama villages between Am Zoer and Biltine, killing seven Tama and burning 200 homes.Chadsource
  • 2008March 13 – With the mediation of the Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Chadian President Idriss Déby sign in Dakar a non-aggression pact. By the terms of the accord, both accept to "inhibit all activities of armed groups".Chadsource
  • 2008February 11 – EU spokesman announces that the deployment of the EUFOR Tchad/RCA, delayed by the fighting in N'Djamena, is to be resumed. Currently there are only 150 EUFOR troops in Chad.Chadsource
  • 2008September 11 – The World Bank cancels plans they had in agreement with Chad for an oil pipeline in the country.Chadsource
  • 2008March 14 – 83 of the 103 children who were at the centre of the Zoé's Ark controversy, who have been kept in an orphanage in Abéché since the eruption of the scandal five months ago, are reunited to their families.Chadsource
  • 2009May 15 - Sudan accused Chad for two air bombardments in its territory done by the Chadian government to attack Chadian rebel groups' bases in Sudan.Chadsource
  • 2009May 9 - Chad captures 150 rebels near Am-Dam after having crossed over the eastern border with Sudan. This was a single event in part of a larger conflict.Chadsource
  • 2010May 14 – Chad gives The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to information about its nuclear programs and involvements.Chadsource
  • 2010Chad continues to struggle against a Cholera outbreak, hitting 5,000 total recorded cases in the country.Chadsource
  • 2010July-September – Flooding in Chad causes 70,000 people to be displaced from their homes.Chadsource
  • 2011Cholera continues to ravage the populations of Chad, as well as other countries neighboring Lake Chad.Chadsource
  • 2012May 17 – The World Bank approves $34 million to boost food production in the agricultural and livestock sectors of the Chadian economy.Chadsource
  • 2012October 12 – The United Nations Human Rights Council begins to move refugees from the Central African Republic from Chad to new sites after floods.Chadsource
  • 2013Human Rights Watch releases a report depicting the atrocities of the Chadian government under the administration of former president Hissène Habré.Chadsource
  • 2015On August 24, President Deby replaced Abderahim Bireme Hamid, his Interior Minister, with former Interior Minister Ahmat Mahamat Bachir. He replaced the Finance Minister, Bedoumra Kordje, with Ngarlenan Docdjengar.Chadsource
  • 201724 September: The White House announces that citizens of Chad will be restricted from travelling to the United States.Chadsource