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Virginian-Pilot
April 4, 2018
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ReliefWeb
April 4, 2018
It is also directly relevant to a range of audiences: those who are seeking an up-to-date and informed review of pastoralism in the eastern Chad context; .... into account, in all development policies, the need to support pastoral systems and secure pastoral strategic mobility (government and local authorities).
Markets Insider
April 4, 2018
MONTREAL, April 4, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ - On March 31, the Chambre de l'assurance de dommages (ChAD) tabled its 2017 annual report entitled ... The ChAD continues lobbying the government to maintain, and indeed improve, the current, cutting-edge SRO model, which acts in synergy with theÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 4, 2018
As the situation does not seem to be improving, Chad Red Cross within the framework of this DREF, aims to target the priority gaps highlighted by the Government, as well as UNHCR's weekly report of March 2 and Emergency Response Plan for Central African Refugees, particularly about needs in theÃâà...
Quartz
April 1, 2018
The Chadian government has released no formal statement either and any reporting on Oxfam's alleged misconduct in the West African nation has been done by the international press, a Chadian journalist told Quartz. Had it not been for the scandal in Haiti, no one would have paid attention to Chad, andÃâà...
Toledo Blade
April 1, 2018
Left Chad Albert, of Toledo, with his cousin, Cmdr. David Fravor, in an October, 2004, file photo when Commander Fravor took command of VFA-41, Strike Fighter Squadron 41 also known as the "Black Aces" in ... Funded at a cost of $22 million, that secretive government program existed from 2007 to 2012.
BBC News
March 31, 2018
Lake Chad - a source of water to millions of people in West Africa - has shrunk by nine-tenths due to climate change, population growth and irrigation. ... But the government ministers and engineers who were recently sipping mineral water in the capital, Abuja, at the International Conference on Lake ChadÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 30, 2018
The Court ordered the convicted persons to pay damages to the 7,000 civil parties the equivalent of 50% of 75 billion CFA francs (approximately $125 million USD), with the remaining 50% to be borne by the Chadian state. The Court held that the Chadian government was liable for the acts of its agents.
The Daily Star
March 29, 2018
LIBREVILLE/TRIPOLI: The armed forces of Libyan powerful commander Khalifa Haftar said Thursday that their warplanes had attacked Chadian rebels in the ... The council urged Libya's internationally recognised unity government to “immediately take all necessary measures” to ensure Beitelmal's release.
Middle East Eye
March 29, 2018
The armed forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar said on Thursday that their warplanes had attacked Chadian rebels in the country's southern desert last ... Haftar, who opposes a UN-backed unity government based in Tripoli, announced the "liberation" of the eastern city of Benghazi last July after aÃâà...
Human Rights Campaign (blog)
March 29, 2018
Today, HRC released a letter from HRC President Chad Griffin to Donald Trump calling on him to end his deafening silence on the ongoing anti-LGBTQ crimes against humanity in the Russian republic of Chechnya. Griffin's letter comes as HRC is also urging its members and supporters to contact the WhiteÃâà...
Norman Transcript
March 29, 2018
“If teacher pay is tied to that source of income, I think the teachers will find themselves in a position where they'll have to be right back up here fighting for more revenue from some place else to get the pay raise that they were promised,” said Chad Warmington, Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association president.
Lincoln Journal Star
March 29, 2018
Gov. Jay Inslee, seated, shakes hands with Chad Griffin, the president of the D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign after a bill banning licensed therapists from trying to change a minor's sexual orientation, on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, in Olympia, Wash. Washington joins 10 other states, includingÃâà...
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
March 28, 2018
In the absence of an effective government, more than a dozen armed groups and a multitude of local militias have usurped control of about 80 percent of the ... With the country surrounded by Islamist insurgencies and other conflicts in Chad, South Sudan and Congo, the spillover from these badlands canÃâà...
Record Delta
March 26, 2018
“Under the leadership of store manager, Chad Corley, our Lowe's of Buckhannon is a beacon of community spirit,” Skinner continued. ... Thankfully, with the help of the Stockert family, our city and county government bodies chose to take a risk; to invest resources into providing a much needed communityÃâà...
Hetq Online
March 26, 2018
The United Kingdom will recover US$ 6.2 million lost in a corruption case stemming from a Canadian energy company bribing Chadian officials in both ... “The UK Government has a zero tolerance approach to corruption and today's landmark judgment means this money can be used to help the people ofÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
March 24, 2018
"She understood government and politics, she could manage, she was a diplomat and she was fearless." ... Former Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes, who gathered critical votes from a small group of Republicans, said McFadden was unfailingly honest and trustworthy during the complicatedÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 24, 2018
In some cases, the weapons came from even further afield, in Chad, and passed through Cameroonian towns such as Kousseri. Government officials, including the former mayor of Fotokol, Ramat Moussa, were among those arrested for arms trafficking. The mayor, arrested in September 2014, was found toÃâà...
economia
March 24, 2018
Harriett Baldwin, minister of state for international development, said, “The UK government has a zero tolerance approach to corruption and today's landmark judgment means this money can be used to help the people of Chad. “DFID is already working in Chad, investing in humanitarian programmes andÃâà...
Tulsa World
March 24, 2018
President Donald Trump gestures to people cheering him across the tarmac as he arrives on Air Force One with first lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron Trump, at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday. Trump released an order Friday night banning most transgenderÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 23, 2018
N'DJAMENA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up nutrition support for 65,000 people in Chad's fragile Sahel region, thanks to a US$2.5 million contribution from the Government of Japan. Insufficient rainfall during the last planting season in parts of Chad's Sahel region hasÃâà...
STRATFOR
March 21, 2018
These changes could lead to greater decentralization in Chad's government, which could provide a solution to Chadian leadership's persistent problems caused by the country's ethnic and regional divisions. The net effect of the change is difficult to ascertain, however, as there is still little information on theÃâà...
africanews
March 16, 2018
The Chadian government has reversed its plan to cut the salaries of civil servants, leading to a call off of a general strike by trade unions in the country. According to the Chadian Ministry of Civil Service, the government is now committed to paying more than 31,000 public servants in the education andÃâà...
Rappler
March 15, 2018
Trade unions called an indefinite general strike in the state sector on January 29 after the government slashed civil servants' pay, and since then the whole public sector has stopped work, paralysing key sectors. Late on Wednesday, March 14, the government and the trade union consortium announced aÃâà...
The Punch
March 13, 2018
“In my discussion with President Derby in Chad earlier today (Monday), we spoke about the threat of Boko Haram and I think it is important and it's really been ... That notwithstanding, he said the US government was supporting Nigeria, by providing capacity building with equipment and also training of theÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
March 13, 2018
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he is hopeful that Chad could be removed from the Trump administration's travel restriction list. Tillerson is speaking at a joint news conference with Chad's Foreign Minister Mahamat Zene (zen) Cherif in the country's capital, N'DjamenaÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 13, 2018
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Chad has acted to "normalize" its relationship with the United States after it was included on a visa-ban list, in a visit designed to show that Washington values President Idriss Deby's government as an "important partner" in the fight against the Islamic State militant groupÃâà...
New York Times
March 13, 2018
The visit to Chad, part of Mr. Tillerson's five-nation tour of Africa, was underwhelming because he got sick partway through, had a light schedule of events anyway and then decided to head back to Washington a day earlier than expected, cramming visits to Chad and Nigeria into a single day.
africanews
March 13, 2018
Life is expensive in N' Djamena,” Ngon-Nadji said. Colonel Mahamat Hassan Abakar is Chairman of the Pension Monitoring Commission in Chad. He told a gathering of pensioners that the government is doing what they can with support from international partners. “ It's your right that the state is paying.
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
March 10, 2018
Mike Henry, who has portfolio responsibility for such industries, on the issue, and “final positions have not actually been taken”. “The Minister of Transport and Mining and I will continue to confer, and the Government will speak at an appropriate time,” Senator Johnson Smith said. “There are different optionsÃâà...
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
March 9, 2018
Kamina Johnson Smith, says the Government is currently monitoring the situation in the United States where tariffs have been imposed on aluminium and steel. Addressing the Senate on March 9, Mrs. Johnson Smith said the Ministry has been in discussion with Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon.
ReliefWeb
March 9, 2018
The U.S. Government (USG) remains the largest donor to the humanitarian response in the Lake Chad Basin , having provided nearly $650 million in ... Following the attack, the UN and non - governmental organizations (NGOs) suspended emergency response activities in Rann and relocated all staff toÃâà...
Toledo Blade
March 9, 2018
Ms. White was one of several people who took the floor and spoke against the proposed jail location at a public forum hosted at the Government Center by ... In a statement, county spokesman Chad Olson said at the time that commissioners could not attend because they were previously scheduled to be atÃâà...
Mother Earth News
March 6, 2018
Their dedication to water preservation has already helped bring key stakeholders in Chad together to address their concerns and get their priorities in order to take the next steps to protect their country's water management. These stakeholders include government, including the Ministry of Environment,Ãâà...
Virginian-Pilot
March 6, 2018
The day before Tillerson's departure, about 100 protesters gathered outside Tillerson's office in Washington chanting against the government. He will spend about a week on the continent visiting countries that play key roles in addressing Africa's security challenges, including Nigeria, Chad and Djibouti,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 5, 2018
A possible merger of two giant makers of computer chips could revolutionize the all-important industry — which touches everything from smartphones to cars — and shift the balance of power from California to Asia. Washington isn't so sure that is a good idea. In a rare intervention by the government, theÃâà...
eNCA
March 3, 2018
N'DJAMENA, Chad - Trade unions and opposition parties in Chad announced Saturday a public sector strike would continue until the government yielded and called a total day of closure for March 12. "We have decided to continue the strike until all our conditions are met," said the head of the ChadianÃâà...
The Advocate
February 28, 2018
The defense attorney for indicted former narcotics agent Chad Scott on Wednesday accused the U.S. Justice Department of trying to conceal misconduct on the part of the government agents who investigated Scott's New Orleans-based federal drug task force. The attorney, Matthew Coman, said federalÃâà...
Daily Trust
February 27, 2018
Chima said, “Lake chad basin is a very serious issue which we need to nip in the bud before it gets out of hands and we are happy that the Federal Ministry of Water Resources is doing something about that and we are keying into that and we believe we are partners in progress as far as water in WestÃâà...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
February 26, 2018
Chad is estimated to be 53 percent Muslim, 20 percent Catholic, and 14 percent Protestant. On February 8, Catholic, Muslim and Evangelical leaders met with trade union leaders to find a way forward. “The government and the trade unions need to exercise restraint and go for dialogue,” said the presidentÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 11, 2018
The Government knew about a looming sexual abuse scandal within the aid sector involving 300 people, the former International Development Secretary has claimed as she accused charities of ... It comes as Oxfam faces fresh allegations over former employees using prostitutes while working in Chad.
Reliefweb
February 9, 2018
(N'djamena, 9 February 2018): The Government of Chad and the humanitarian community today launched the 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan, a strategic planning tool based on a common analysis of humanitarian needs. In Chad, 4.4 million people, or nearly one in three people, need humanitarianÃâà...
News/Talk 790 KFYO
February 8, 2018
A spending deal is in place but does that mean a government shutdown will be avoided? The spending bill agreement reached in the Senate is not a conservative win, but it does include wins for Texas and West Texas. Democrats are threatening to vote against the measure if DACA isn't fixed and NancyÃâà...
eNCA
February 8, 2018
N'DJAMENA, Chad - The government of Chad on Wednesday suspended 10 opposition parties for "disturbing public order" and "inciting violence" after ... The 10 suspended parties include the Democratic Party of the Chadian People (PDPT), led by lawmaker Djimet Clement Bagao, which took part in aÃâà...
Quartz
December 31, 1999
Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, will visit Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria, Mar. 6-13. In a statement, the US State Department ... This comes despite the government's claims of victory in the fight against the sect given a better equipped military. Last August, US sold Nigeria half a billionÃâà...
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