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Introducing Chad
Travel Alert: The situation throughout Chad is extremely fragile: any decision to travel to the country should not be taken lightly. All of Chad's frontier areas remain hazardous; the entire border area with Sudan is considered extremely dangerous. See Safe Travel for updated government warnings.
Long seen by travellers as a place to get through rather than visit, few visitors in Chad do more than spend a couple of days in N’Djaména, the busy, broken-down capital, on their way between Niger and Cameroon. And as the government increasingly loses its grip on the nation, travellers are getting fewer and further between. Even many NGO workers dread drawing this assignment. Travelling here certainly poses many problems: few roads are paved, it gets hot as hell in summer, the costs are among the continent’s highest, and the police and soldiers are quite nervous these days. But, of course, there are rewards in this struggling but interesting country for those who take the Chadian challenge and you will soon discover a wealth of warmth and culture beneath the rough exterior.
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Latest headlines for Chad
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Firm fined £150k over pool injury
9 July 2009 2:15PM
The owner of a caravan park is fined £150,000 after a boy was left with severe brain injuries after being found in a pool.
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Sudan rebels 'use Chad's camps'
7 July 2009 10:36AM
A BBC reporter in Chad sees armed Sudanese rebels openly driving through a camp for Darfur refugees.
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