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Aleteia EN
March 29, 2018
A strong desire to serve and an ardent compassion for the people of Africa led to her superiors to send her to work as a teacher in war-torn areas of Chad. She was later sent to a mission in the Central African Republic, where she shelters displaced people, and at 74 she is still devoted to working towardsÃâà...
Houma Courier
March 29, 2018
Lockport shipbuilder's donation helps World War II Museum grow ... By Chad Calder The Advocate (Baton Rouge) ... three-pointed expanse of steel and fiberglass that will serve as the defining architectural feature of the National World War II Museum and the newest distinctive addition to the New OrleansÃâà...
The Guardian
March 28, 2018
'Liberia is no longer experiencing armed conflict and has made significant progress in restoring stability and democratic governance,' said a ... Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to special legal status for certain immigrants from Liberia, thousands of whom escaped the violence of war and haveÃâà...
Independent Online
March 28, 2018
A fifth of the country's population remain displaced internally or in neighbouring countries, such as Chad, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo; 2.4 million others are in need of humanitarian aid, including food, shelter and health care. Militias, adorned with swords and machetes and at timesÃâà...
New York Times
March 25, 2018
U.S. Strikes Qaeda Target in Southern Libya, Expanding Shadow War There ... Roughly equidistant from Libya's borders with Niger, Chad and Algeria, the area's seminomadic tribesmen are heavily involved in the smuggling of weapons, drugs and illegal migrants through the lawless deserts of southernÃâà...
New York Times
March 23, 2018
“We do seem to be entering a trade war,” said Eswar Prasad, a senior professor of trade policy at Cornell University. ... The goods that Beijing plans to penalize represents about 2 percent of the total size of American exports to China, according to Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute forÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 23, 2018
Equally important is why the president can start a trade war without Congress playing any formal role. ... As Chad Bown notes, the Trump administration's investigation of steel and aluminum pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which authorizes the president to impose trade barriersÃâà...
Broadway World
March 22, 2018
The film, about the tension between a father and son when the father's job as a hotel pool attendant is given to his son, foregrounds an intimate familial struggle while Chad's civil war lingers in the periphery of the characters' lives. The series also includes Haroun's first film, Bye Bye AFRICA (1999-Apr 25),Ãâà...
Newsweek
March 20, 2018
The poaching crisis of the 1970s and 80s saw the northern white rhino wiped out in Uganda, Central African Republic, Sudan and Chad. Other factors, including civil war in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), also accelerated the decline in numbers. By 2008, the subspecies wasÃâà...
New York Times
March 20, 2018
... Niger to Chad to Stuttgart, Germany, where United States Africa Command is based. If they were issued by a junior officer — the same rank as the leader of Team 3212 — it would signal a systematic breakdown in a mission that has ignited widespread criticism of the United States' shadow war in Niger.
The New Yorker
March 19, 2018
Early this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared war on the State of California. At least .... “The last time we had that, we had the Civil War,” he said. ..... After S.B. 32 became law, Chad Mayes, the Republican minority leader of the Assembly, established a working group to consider supporting aÃâà...
5newsonline.com
March 19, 2018
FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM)--Outside of Chad Morris, his new staff and a handful of freshmen and transfers, there's a new spectator at Arkansas spring football practices. "We've had ... Arkansas plays its Red-White spring football game on Saturday April 7 in at 1 p.m. inside War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.
Hattiesburg American
March 18, 2018
Participants in Unified Focus included support staff from U.S. Army Africa, Cameroonian War College students, and participants from Benin, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. "(Unified Focus) allows so many Africans to promote peace and cooperation (among theÃâà...
Thegardenisland.com
March 17, 2018
Alan Kekoa Hoffman, center, confronts developer Chad Waters, right, and a worker Friday at the Coco Palms property as buildings and personal belongings of recent .... His greatest fear, he said, is a civil war, which is something he said he doesn't want to happen, but he doesn't see any other solution.
Daily Bruin
March 16, 2018
Throwback Thursday: Locals pour wine in Westwood streets, protest French aversion to Iraq War ... “France has depended on the people of the United States twice to defend them from rogue governments,” said Chad Morgan, one of the organizers of the event, in a press release. “Now, when we need toÃâà...
Daily Bruin
March 15, 2018
Throwback Thursday: Locals pour wine in Westwood streets, protest French aversion to Iraq War ... “France has depended on the people of the United States twice to defend them from rogue governments,” said Chad Morgan, one of the organizers of the event, in a press release. “Now, when we need toÃâà...
TRT World
March 12, 2018
... security personnel as he departs N'Djamena, Chad, March 12, 2018. (Reuters). Secretary of State Rex Tillerson brought his truncated maiden Africa trip to a close on Monday, promising the full backing of the United States to two countries on the frontline of the war on terror. Washington's top diplomat hasÃâà...
WHIO
March 12, 2018
In Trump's most recent set of travel restrictions issued in September, Chad landed on the visa ban list thanks to an office supply glitch that prevented the country from supplying Homeland Security officials .... Duerr warned that a nuclear war with North Korea could put Dayton on a list of targets because of Wright-Patterson.
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 12, 2018
During South Sudan's earlier war for independence from Sudan, Egypt accepted South Sudanese refugees and gave them access to education in their universities, for which South Sudan is .... "The placement of Chad in this list was an injustice done to Chad," Foreign Minister Mahamat Zene Cherif said.
Raw Story
March 9, 2018
Fox News guest freaks over 'beta males' magazine cover: 'All-out war on white Christian men!' ... The Fox show invited cowboy hat-wearing comedian Chad Prather on to attack the notion that it was okay to be a “beta male” — and he suggested that the magazine cover was part of a broader war againstÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 9, 2018
This tit-for-tat trade war depressed production, employment, and prices in many countries, including the United States. ... According to Chad P. Brown, of the Petersen Institute for International Economics, they would affect about forty-six billion dollars' worth of U.S. imports, which was only about two per centÃâà...
Duluth News Tribune
March 8, 2018
College of St. Scholastica cross country coach Chad Salmela (from left), who was a cross-country skiing TV commentator for the Winter Olympics, sits ... What we are into this week: Sports Illustrated (physical copies of the magazine), decluttering and giving things away, The War on Drugs newish album,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 8, 2018
One of the groups that are active in this region is a Chadian rebel group called the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad (FACT), which is believed to be fighting alongside local groups opposed to Khalifa Haftar. But Haftar has also relied on the support of foreign armed groups in the Fezzan region.
Vox
March 1, 2018
The Trump administration may have finally launched the trade war many expected was coming. .... of people from villages into cities, you need to build highways and apartments and infrastructure,” said Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC.
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
February 26, 2018
Chad has been a nation in conflict for over 50 years. The country's first civil war took place from 1965-1979 and was immediately followed by the 1979-1985 Second Chadian civil war. The most recent Chadian civil war took place from 2005-2010. Like many nations along Africa's Sahel region, Chad isÃâà...
Norwegian Refugee Council
February 23, 2018
While many people displaced from their homes in these areas of Borno State are eager to return, continuing insecurity, coupled with the risk to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees encountering dangerous explosive remnants of war, and lack of basic services like health and education makesÃâà...
Harvard Gazette
February 22, 2018
Radcliffe fellow Chad Williams is working on a book about what he considers one of W.E.B. Du Bois' greatest missteps: “The Black Man and the Wounded World,” ... More than 350,000 African-American soldiers served in segregated units during World War I. Most of the black troops stationed in France wereÃâà...
New York Times
February 17, 2018
The result has been an amorphous and contested war that has put Navy SEALs in Somalia and Yemen, Delta Force soldiers in Iraq, and Green Berets in Niger in harm's way. ..... An American Special Forces trainer working with Chadian soldiers last year on the shores of the Chari River, in N'Djamena.
New Statesman
December 31, 1999
One brings together five nations: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. Called G5, it consists of 5,000 troops. The second operates further south and is mainly aimed at fighting Nigeria's Boko Haram. This is the Multinational Joint Task Force, comprises some 7,500 personnel from Benin,Ãâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
“I don't have dancers from the Vakaga but I would like to have some,” says company director Dieudonne Koumba, 59, referring to a region in the northeast of the country, near the borders with Chad and Sudan. He insists that despite this lack, the troupe's composition is “solidly representative” of the countryÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
One year after Oslo Conference funds forestalled famine in the Lake Chad Basin, millions of people are still in desperate need of aid. ... are eager to return, continuing insecurity, coupled with the risk to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees encountering dangerous explosive remnants of war,Ãâà...
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