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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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05NDJAMENA1011A VISIT WITH CHADIAN GRAND IMAM AND THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a visit with the High Council for Islamic Affairs June 20, Chad's Grand Imam welcomed the Embassy's support for English classes at Muslim schools, responded positively to statements about charges of abuse of the Koran at Guantanamo, urged Washington to consider eventua [...]
2005-06-27 06:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM KWMN CD
05NDJAMENA1015CHAD INQUIRES ABOUT G8 DEBT RELIEF
[...] (U) The following message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Minister of Finance is very concerned that, despite oil revenues, Chad is facing intense financial pressures and needs to be considered for G8 debt relief proposals. In a recent mee [...]
2005-06-27 06:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1020CHADIAN REBELS, RUMORS, REALITIES, AND REACTIONS
[...] (S NF) Summary: Speculation about the existence of Chadian rebel groups continues to make Chadians uneasy about the regime's stability. The often conflicting reports and wide-ranging opinions about the size, composition, capabilities, and agendas of Chadian rebel groups make it difficult to [...]
2005-06-27 12:05:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA1077ERODING PRESS FREEDOMS IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Press freedoms continue to erode in Chad. Of particular concern is the recent arrest of three journalists from the independent press. Two are now free, but remain under threat of further prosecution, while a third is still in custody. Independent media, including newspapers [...]
2005-07-09 09:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OIIP KPAO PHUM CD
05NDJAMENA1078PRESIDENT DEBY BRISTLES OVER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. President Deby was evidently taken aback by the Ambassador's remarks at the Independence Day reception July 1 urging an open, credible electoral process over the coming year. According to his chief foreign policy advisor, Deby is concerned about misimpressions he thinks may hav [...]
2005-07-09 09:15:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CD
05NDJAMENA1122CHADIAN RESPONSE TO UN REFORM DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Per reftels, Ambassador Wall met with Chadian Foreign Minister Nagoum Yamassoum on July 11 to discuss the UN reform. In outlining the U.S. position on UN reform, the Ambassador emphasized our desire for overall reform, not just UN Security Council expansion. He noted that G-4 proposal [...]
2005-07-13 16:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CD UNSC
05NDJAMENA1133LIFTING TERM LIMITS: CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 7, Chad's Constitutional Council nullified the public referendum results of over 3,007 voting precincts, but confirmed the overall vote in favor of removing presidential term limits. The rejection of the votes in one-third of the districts and the overseas votes puts [...]
2005-07-15 09:03:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
05NDJAMENA1134SCENARIOS FOR POLITICAL CHANGE IN CHAD
[...] (C) Summary: Chad is currently experiencing another period of heightened uncertainty. Deby has been able to navigate through them in the past. (Reftels) Nonetheless, the removal of presidential term limits through a less-than-transparent public referendum has many observers wondering what [...]
2005-07-15 09:04:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL CD SU
05NDJAMENA115CHAD: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT
[...] Summary: Chad continues to be a strong partner in the global war against terrorism. Chad was not covered in the 2003 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report. Post responses are keyed to reftel paragraph 15. A. The Government of Chad continues to take significant actions to support the globa [...]
2005-01-25 09:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF CD SU PTER
05NDJAMENA1150IFI'S WELCOME TREASURY ADVISOR, DISCUSS OIL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The World Bank and International Monetary Fund resident representatives in Chad welcomed the prospect of a resident Treasury Advisor for the Revenue Management College during meetings with a visiting Treasury team, which included the prospective candidate for the mission. The [...]
2005-07-20 17:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1151TREASURY TEAM MEETS WITH OIL REVENUE COLLEGE, GOC
[...] (SBU) Summary: The candidate for the Treasury Advisor position in Chad and accompanying Treasury officials were warmly welcomed at the Oil Revenue Management College and government ministries during their visit to Chad from July 10 to 14. The mission was designed to introduce the prospective [...]
2005-07-20 17:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1165PRESS FREEDOM AND THE BATTLE OF THE SPEECHES
[...] (SBU) Summary: The government of Chad has continued to harrass and imprison journalists, despite pressure from the United States, and outcry from the local and international press and groups like Reporters Without Borders. Two journalists have been sentenced to three months and three years [...]
2005-07-22 12:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OIIP KPAO PHUM CD
05NDJAMENA1209DISCUSSING DARFUR WITH DEBY
[...] (C) Summary: President Idriss Deby outlined Chad's perspective on the upcoming round of negotiations on Darfur in a meeting on July 29 with Ambassador John Yates, the U.S. Special Representative to the talks. Deby expressed his concerns with the African Union's lack of consultation and acce [...]
2005-08-02 12:03:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA1214OUTREACH TO DARFUR REBEL MOVEMENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: SuQ Liberation Movement (SLM) members say that they will not be ready to return to the negotiating table on August 24. Special Representative to the Darfur Talks Ambassador John Yates, Ambassador Wall, and P/E officer delivered points per reftel to the SLM leaders on July 29 [...]
2005-08-04 06:24:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA1227TCC DISPUTE GOES ON
[...] The following cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the suspension on June 23 by the National Courts of the case brought against Esso-subcontractor TCC by the company's former employees, plaintiffs organized demonstrations on Esso fac [...]
2005-08-07 13:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ELAB ENRG PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1228CHAD,S MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEVELOPS PLAN TO
[...] This message contained information that is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. SIPDIS 2. This message is being retransmitted due to technical errors on two previous occasions. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Finance has developed, in consultation with the Wor [...]
2005-08-07 14:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1237CHAD: LONG AWAIT CABINET RESHUFFLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Idriss Deby reshuffled his cabinet on August 7, placing the Ministry of Defense under the Presidency. Key changes include the Ministers of Defense, Foreign Affairs, Public Security, and Finance. The new cabinet may reflect the President's security concerns and his i [...]
2005-08-10 16:24:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KDEM CD
05NDJAMENA1259HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ATA TRAINING FOR CHADIAN
[...] A search of Embassy biographic, human rights, consular, and law enforcement files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals nominated for Anti-Terrorism Training (ATA) training as of this date. 2. The following group of Chadian police and [...]
2005-08-16 08:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD
05NDJAMENA1260CHAD: LONG AWAITED CABINET RESHUFFLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Idriss Deby reshuffled his cabinet on August 7, placing the Ministry of Defense under the Presidency. Key changes include the Ministers of Defense, Foreign Affairs, Public Security, and Finance. The new cabinet may reflect the President's security concerns and his [...]
2005-08-16 08:03:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM CD
05NDJAMENA1262CHAD: MEETING WITH NEW FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a wide-ranging meeting with the newly installed Minister of Foreign Affairs, Allam-mi Ahmad (former diplomatic advisor to the President),the Minister commented on the current state of the Darfur peace process and the need for the rebel movements to "improve representivity." [...]
2005-08-17 08:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD PREL PREF KUNR
05NDJAMENA13502005 FOOD CRISIS IN THE SAHEL SPARES CHAD
[...] Summary. While a massive food aid and disaster relief program is being implemented in neighboring Niger, and OFDA disaster assessment teams gauge the seriousness of reported shortages in Mali and Burkina Faso, the consensus among on-ground observers of the situation in Chad is that Chad is no [...]
2005-09-01 17:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PREL SOCI CD WFP
05NDJAMENA1356CHAD-CAMEROON PIPELINE PROJECT: OVERVIEW OF HUMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: With oil flowing, the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project and the conventions that govern it are now being tested. Human rights groups in Chad and their international partners continue to monitor and raise compensation, environmental, social, and security issues. While recognizin [...]
2005-09-03 07:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PHUM CD
05NDJAMENA1357CHAD'S OIL REVENUE MANAGEMENT PROCESS: SHOWING
[...] (C) Summary: The recently released report of Chad's Oil Revenue Management College's verification of projects highlights some of the issues now arising over the use of petroleum funds. The College found numerous deficiencies such as non-delivery or significant delays in delivery of items, p [...]
2005-09-03 07:33:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1367CHAD: 2005 CHILD LABOR UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary: The Chadian Government continues to move ahead on its commitments against child labor. Its efforts are hampered by a lack of capacity and resources. The most significant development during this period is the completion of a survey of child domestic workers in N'Djamena. Per A, [...]
2005-09-07 15:39:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI CD USAID
05NDJAMENA1377SALIM ON THE NEXT ROUND OF DARFUR PEACE TALKS, SLM
[...] (C) Summary: During his visit to Chad for consultations over September 8-9, the African Union's Special Envoy for Darfur, Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, shared his views on the upcoming round of peace talks. Salim is committed to starting the talks on September 15, but acknowledges that members of [...]
2005-09-10 17:52:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA1378EIGHTH JOINT COMMISSION MEETING: JUMP-STARTING THE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Joint Commission on the Darfur Humanitarian Cease-fire met September 8-9, taking advantage of a visit by the African Union's Special Envoy for Darfur, Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim. The agenda was devoid of any overtly controversial issues and focused on a report by the Cease-fi [...]
2005-09-10 17:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA1395CHAD: IMF-WORLD BANK MISSION PRESENTS POSITIVE
[...] SUMMARY: The latest IMF-World Bank Mission has presented a fairly positive assessment of Chad's economic prospects, but has also noted the need for progress in non-oil sectors, particularly cotton, agriculture and livestock, and telecommunications. While the country received a passing grade [...]
2005-09-14 14:53:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA140SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: THE U.S.
[...] The Government's human rights record remains poor. Security forces committed extrajudicial killings and continued to intimidate the public. The judiciary remained subject to executive interference. Violence and societal discrimination against women were common. The independent press occasi [...]
2005-01-28 14:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA1412WEIGHING IN WITH THE DARFUR REBELS: SLM CONFERENCE
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wall met with members of Mini Minawi's camp of the Sudan Liberation Movement on September 12 to discuss their views on the recently held Joint Commission, their conference plans, and the Abuja talks. The high-level group explained the importance the field commanders [...]
2005-09-16 08:31:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA1414FOUR JOURNALISTS STILL IN PRISON; A FIFTH MENACED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Three Chadian journalists remain in prison in N'D after being denied bail in a hearing on Thursday, September 15th. A f had been in prison since early July, was granted temporary release on week. A fifth journalist, arrested and then quickly released, is stil charges and trial. [...]
2005-09-16 08:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OIIP KPAO PHUM CD
05NDJAMENA1418CHAD: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE FOR REGIONAL MILITARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post seeks Department support for a military contribution for the Chadian-hosted regional military exercise Bahr El-Gazel from November 10-23, possibly through ACOTA or another State-funded program. The exercise was developed to respond to the African Union's call on each of t [...]
2005-09-19 16:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM MARR MOPS CD
05NDJAMENA1421HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING
[...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individual nominated for English Language and Undergraduate Pilot training as of this date. 2. Hassan Emmanuel Abdoul DJANGBEI. DOB: October 17, 1976 WALL [...]
2005-09-20 13:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD
05NDJAMENA1431CHADIANS SEEK GREATER FLEXIBILITY WITH NEW OIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOC has formally asked Esso to deposit revenues from its new satellite field directly into the Government's Public Treasury, rather than follow the existing revenue management process, which stipulates placement in an escrow account. Esso has declined to adhere to this reques [...]
2005-09-23 17:18:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1481CHAD: THREE JOURNALISTS RELEASED; RADIO DIRECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. The final three jailed journalists have been released. The director of Radio Brakoss, a private radio station in southern Chad, has been arrested, and may be expelled. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Three journalists who had been arrested on charges including defamation, incitin [...]
2005-09-29 17:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KPAO OIIP PREF CD
05NDJAMENA1487CHAD PROTESTS CROSS-BORDER ATTACK FROM SUDAN
[...] (U) This is an action request for AF/SPG, AF/PD. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary: Chad has told the Government of Sudan to close its consulate in Abeche and announced the withdrawal of its consulate from El Geneina, Sudan after a cross-border jandjaweed attack killed over 36 civilians o [...]
2005-10-04 07:04:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA1492CHINA'S LIMITED INFLUENCE IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since 1997, N'Djamena's official recognition of Taiwan has limited Chinese influence in Chad. Chinese firms, however, are interested in becoming involved in Chad's oil sector. Chad is not taking the People's Republic of China up on recent overtures. End Summary. 2. (SBU) [...]
2005-10-04 13:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON CD EFIN EMIN ENRG ETRD ETTC PREL SENV AF CH ENIV
05NDJAMENA1500AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW FOR CHAD
[...] Post recommends that Chad continue to be deemed compliant with AGOA eligibility requirements. The government continues to support the Revenue Management Process, and is taking measures to improve the human rights situation, reform the military, and curb corruption. The country also continues [...]
2005-10-05 11:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL ELAB PHUM CD AGOA USTR
05NDJAMENA1521ESSO IN CHAD: CURRENT TRAVAILS, AND CONCERNS DOWN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Esso's labor, transportation and royalties issues with the GOC continue to brew. The company has attempted to improve relations with the Government by sponsoring the visit of GOC officials to oil market operations in London and Washington. However, GOC officials continue to cr [...]
2005-10-07 12:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1522ESSO IN CHAD: CURRENT TRAVAILS, AND CONCERNS DOWN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Esso's labor, transportation and royalties issues with the GOC continue to brew. The company has attempted to improve relations with the Government by sponsoring the visit of GOC officials to oil market operations in London and Washington. However, GOC officials continue to cr [...]
2005-10-07 12:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1546NEXT STEPS ON DARFUR: CHADIAN VIEWS ON REPARING
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador on October 15 to share USG ideas on organizing an all-inclusive conference for the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM),Foreign Minister Allam-mi Ahmad welcomed U.S. assistance for the conference and said Chad already is working on the preparation [...]
2005-10-17 10:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA1547NINTH JOINT COMMISSION MEETING: WIDESPREAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Joint Commission (JC) on the Darfur Humanitarian Cease-fire met October 13-14 in N'Djamena. The key agenda item, strengthening the cease-fire, was never completely covered, but participants vowed to rejuvenate the JC and reaffirmed their commitments to participate regularl [...]
2005-10-17 11:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA1552HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY FUND (HRDF): STATUS
[...] Summary: Two HRDF grants totaling $50,000 were obligated in March 2005 and are in the process of implementation. Both are meeting their objectives to strengthen freedom of speech in Chad by providing material and programmatic support to private radio stations. End summary. 2. Grant S-CD30 [...]
2005-10-19 10:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PHUM CD
05NDJAMENA1556MITIGATING THE HUMAN FOOTPRINT IN CHAD
[...] Summary. Wildlife biologist, Michael Fay, and a group of eight NGOs/foundations will soon undertake an ambitious effort to develop a long-term conservation plan to preserve Chad's wildlife populations. Program manager Jean-Marc Froment from the group, African Parks Conservation, accompanied b [...]
2005-10-20 11:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV CD
05NDJAMENA1560CHAD: GOVERNMENT LOBBYING FOR CHANGES TO OIL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following a chilly reception in Washington by the Bretton Woods Institutions, the Government of Chad (GOC) is reaching out to development partners and civil society in Chad on the need to modify the law governing management of petroleum revenues, with the hope of persuading the [...]
2005-10-21 09:13:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1561CHAD: PREPAREDNESS FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA
[...] Summary: Chad does not have an effective animal health surveillance system and will be relying on donor support and international organizations to identify and respond to any potential outbreak of avian influenza. Lake Chad and its tributaries attract large numbers of migrating birds (in par [...]
2005-10-21 15:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV CD
05NDJAMENA1589ARS VIDEO LOAN LIBRARY - 2006 EDITION
[...] PAS N'DJAMENA WOULD LIKE TO SUSCRIBE TO THE SUBJECT VIDEO PROGRAM. SHIP THE VIDEOS ACCORDING TO THE SCHEDULE BELOW. JANUARY 2006 - 138: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER - 195: KING IN NEW YORK - 199: LIMELIGHT - 306: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND FEBRUARY - 101: AMISTAD - 541: BOYCOTT [...]
2005-10-27 08:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OIIP KIRC
05NDJAMENA1592CHAD: PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES PROPOSED OIL
[...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji convoked the diplomatic corps and representatives of international organizations October 21 to announce that the Government of Chad (GOC) intended to submit a 2006 budget to the National Assembly which would reflect changes to the oil revenue man [...]
2005-10-27 14:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF EFIN ECON EPET CD
05NDJAMENA1593CHAD: PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES PROPOSED OIL
[...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji convoked the diplomatic corps and representatives of international organizations October 21 to announce that the Government of Chad (GOC) intended to submit a 2006 budget to the National Assembly which would reflect changes to the oil revenue man [...]
2005-10-27 14:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF EFIN ECON EPET CD
05NDJAMENA1596LOCAL HOLIDAY CLOSURE - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-28 07:45:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT
05NDJAMENA1606 TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF CONSULAR SECTION
[...] Due to an unavoidable staffing gap, Amembassy Ndjamena will temporarily close its consular section to the public from October 28 to November 13, 2005. 2. Should there be an emergency visa case, post would be grateful for AmEmbassy Paris' assistance. (Chadians traveling to the U.S. genera [...]
2005-10-31 13:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT CD
05NDJAMENA1615CHAD: DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGY
[...] (C) Summary: The United States has important interests at stake and a potentially decisive role to play in promoting democracy in Chad. Earlier this year, President Deby succeeded in removing presidential term limits in a constitutional (but questionable) process, and is now on the path to [...]
2005-11-01 12:27:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM PREL CD
05NDJAMENA1616REFUGEES IN EASTERN CHAD: PRM VISIT TO BAHAI
[...] Summary. PRM/AFR and P/E Officer visited Bahai, Oure Cassoni Refugee Camp, and border areas of Bamina and Tine from October 17-19. The security situation was calm at the time of the visit, although fighting in Sudan around October 21 resulted in nine suspected combatants crossing the border [...]
2005-11-01 12:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA162PRESIDENT DEBY APPEALS FOR HELP
[...] (C) Summary: Darfur threatens to become a regional catastrophe and Chad proposes hosting a high-level meeting of the Joint Commission on the Humanitarian Cease-Fire in a new attempt to head it off, President Deby told us February 4. In the meeting he requested with the Ambassador, he appeale [...]
2005-02-04 19:07:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL CD SU
05NDJAMENA1624 CENTRAL AFRICAN REFUGEES: PRM VISITS CAMPS IN
[...] Summary. PRM/AFR Mary Lange (Deputy Director of the Africa Office) and Neil Ahlsten (Chad/Darfur Program Officer) traveled to southern Chad from October 10-15 to visit the refugee camps in Amboko and Yaroungou. The visit was prompted by the arrival of an estimated 10,700 new refugees from th [...]
2005-11-02 16:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PGOV CD SU CZ
05NDJAMENA163TURNING UP THE HEAT: HIGH-LEVEL JOINT COMMISSION
[...] (U) Summary: Chad will host a high-level meeting of the Joint Commission on the Humanitarian Cease-fire for Darfur on February 15. The meeting will include the presidents of Nigeria, Sudan, and Gabon, and the foreign ministers of other countries, according to Chadian Foreign Minister Nagoum [...]
2005-02-04 19:16:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA1635RAMADAN ACTIVITIES 2005
[...] (SBU) Summary: To celebrate Ramadan this year, Embassy N'Djamena organized a talk by Dr. Abderrahmane Almahy, rector of King Faisal University. The talk was followed by End Summary --------------- MUSLIM OUTREACH --------------- 2. (SBU) The Ambassador, accompanied by the PAO, [...]
2005-11-07 13:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM KWMN CD
05NDJAMENA1636RAMADAN ACTIVITIES 2005
[...] (SBU) Summary: To celebrate Ramadan this year, Embassy N'Djamena organized a talk by Dr. Abderrahmane Almahy, rector of King Faisal University, on October 25th. The talk was followed by an Iftar dinner hosted by the Ambassador at his residence. For the final day of Ramadan, PAO traveled [...]
2005-11-07 13:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM KWMN CD
05NDJAMENA164PRIME MINISTE MOUSSA FAKI REPLACE BY A SOUTHERNER
[...] (C) Summary. The replacemet of Prime Minister Moussa Faki was announced on February 3. Faki's departure had been in the making for months. His replacement is southerner Pascal Yoadimnadji, previously Minister of Agriculture, and a long-time embassy contact. The Ministers of Finance, Educat [...]
2005-02-04 19:17:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM CD
05NDJAMENA1649CHAD: REQUEST FOR UN ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The final version of a UN report on Chad's electoral needs released to donors November 4 concluded that the national institutions responsible for managing elections lacked independence, that the most recent electoral census was not credible and that the recent amendments to t [...]
2005-11-08 16:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
05NDJAMENA1656CHAD: GOVERNMENT MOVING AHEAD WITH OIL REVENUE
[...] (C) Summary: The Government is moving ahead with its plans to amend the revenue management law despite concern among various donors, diplomatic missions, civil society groups, and opposition parties. On November 9, the Council of Ministers sent the revisions to the law to the National Assem [...]
2005-11-09 16:13:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
05NDJAMENA1662PRIME MINISTER AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT ON
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji and National Assembly President Nassour defended proposed revisions to the oil revenue management law in meetings with the Ambassador on November 10. Yoadimnadji said the Government has moved forward with the revisions and remains open to dial [...]
2005-11-10 17:33:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
05NDJAMENA1672CHAD: DEBY SHAKES UP MILITARY LEADERSHIP
[...] (C) Summary. President Idriss Deby carried out a military shake-up on November 15. The changes include the chiefs of the Armed Forces, Gendarmerie, Nomadic Guard, and National Police. The most surprising change was the removal of Deby relative, General Mahamat Saleh Ibrahim, who had serve [...]
2005-11-16 16:03:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MARR MOPS CD
05NDJAMENA1684CHADIAN PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES ELECTION PLANS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On November 18, Chadian Prime Minister Pascal Yoadminadji outlined plans for the 2006 elections in a meeting originally billed as the installation of the national independent electoral commission. Yoadminadji may have scuttled the installation after political opposition parti [...]
2005-11-23 15:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM
05NDJAMENA1690CHAD: UPDATE ON OIL REVENUE LAW REVISIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government's proposed revisions to the oil revenue management law are moving through the legislative process. The National Assembly originally planned to debate them on December 14, but a dispute within the majority group in the legislature may slow down the process. In [...]
2005-11-28 10:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM
05NDJAMENA1691CHAD: TRANSPARENCY OF BUDGET/MILITARY SPENDING
[...] In response to reftel, Post submits the following information concerning the transparency of military spending in Chad. 2. Audit process of military expenditures: A formal auditing process is conducted annually by the Budget Office within the Ministry of Finance, in coordination with the [...]
2005-11-28 10:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1693CALL UP MSG FOR FORCES TO TRAIN AND EQUIP FOREIGN FORCES
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-29 16:24:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS MARR LIB
05NDJAMENA1706DEMARCHE ON COTTON EVENT AT WTO HONG KONG
[...] (SBU) The Ambassador spoke with Minister of Commerce Ngarmbatina December 5 to convey points in ref on our concerns over the event on cotton planned for December 12 at the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong. The Ambassador highlighted U.S. interest in working with Chad on a mutually beneficial ou [...]
2005-12-05 16:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD CD USTR WTO
05NDJAMENA1707CHAD READY TO ACCEPT WORLD BANK TEAM, PUSHING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOC is willing to welcome a World Bank/IMF team to explore the Bank's proposed compromise, but is skeptical about the World Bank's ability to assist the government's budget process. Following internal disagreements among ruling-party deputies in the National Assembly, two c [...]
2005-12-06 07:28:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
05NDJAMENA1708USAID/OFDA PROGRAMMING IN EASTERN CHAD
[...] A USG team found that six aid organizations implementing OFDA-funded projects in eastern Chad have gotten off to a good start with funding provided late in the fiscal year. Their work is welcomed by local authorities and individual Chadians, will help ease conditions in an arid and undevelop [...]
2005-12-06 17:49:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI PREF PREL CD USAID
05NDJAMENA1737CHADIAN COTTON NEGOTIATOR ON HONG KONG MINISTERIAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Chad's influential cotton negotiator sought to allay concerns about the Cotton-4 event at the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial in a meeting with us December 5. He also urged concrete actions to cut the domestic subsidy programs that hurt Africa's cotton producers. END SUMMARY 2 [...]
2005-12-07 14:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAGR PGOV ETRD CD WTO
05NDJAMENA1741USAID/OFDA PROGRAMMING IN EASTERN CHAD
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-07 16:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI PREF PREL CD USAID
05NDJAMENA1748CHAD: AU TO ESTABLISH OFFICE
[...] Ambassador Mahmoud Kane, the new head of the AU Liaison Office in N'djamena, paid a call on the Ambassador December 7, 2005 to introduce himself and explain his mission in Chad. His mandate will be to coordinate between the AU and the Government of Chad (GOC) and with "all partners." He was [...]
2005-12-09 10:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL CD
05NDJAMENA1753CHAD: MOVING SLOWLY ON AI PREPAREDNESS
[...] Summary: Chad is slowly gearing up to official recognition of the threat of avian influenza. The government has prohibited the entry of live poultry into areas at risk and strengthened the government's existing veterinary surveillance system. Wild birds are expected in the Lake Chad area f [...]
2005-12-09 12:53:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TBIO ECON EAGR CD
05NDJAMENA1755 USAID FOOD SECTOR SPECIALIST VISITS EASTERN
[...] As reported septel, the USAID Darfur Field Office (DFO) food sector specialist visited eastern Chad from November 16 to 29 to monitor emergency food assistance activities of U.N. World Food Program (WFP). Representatives from WFP, food distribution partners, and humanitarian organizations acc [...]
2005-12-12 08:56:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI CD SU USAID
05NDJAMENA1757USAID/OFDA PROGRAMMING IN EASTERN CHAD
[...] Approximately 200,000 Sudanese refugees currently live in reasonable but delicate harmony with their Chadian hosts in an arid and undeveloped environment. Potential problems revolve around use of natural resources, jealousy and political developments in Sudan and Chad. UNHCR and its partners [...]
2005-12-12 10:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI PREF PREL CD USAID
05NDJAMENA1758 USAID FOOD SECTOR SPECIALIST VISITS EASTERN
[...] From November 16 to 29, the USAID Darfur Field Office (DFO) food sector specialist traveled to eastern Chad for the second time in 2005 to monitor USAID- sponsored food aid operations carried out by the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) and partners. This is the first of two assessment cables re [...]
2005-12-12 10:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI CD SU USAID
05NDJAMENA1760GOC-WORLD BANK STILL DUKING IT OUT ON OIL LAW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Even though some Chadian ministers remain optimistic about a compromise with the World Bank, President Deby reiterated the GOC's right to move forward with revising its oil revenue management law in a combative speech at ceremonies in Fada in northern Chad on December 10. Becau [...]
2005-12-12 15:50:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
05NDJAMENA1761THE MANY FACES (AND LIVES) OF PRESIDENT IDRISS DEBY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. President Idriss Deby at year's end is perhaps more besieged than he has ever been in his fifteen years in power. He is confronting a rash of desertions, raids on military targets, and violent student demonstrations. Even his most respected family members are joining the oppo [...]
2005-12-13 11:53:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ENRG EPET KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
05NDJAMENA1819 LETTER FROM PRESIDENT OF CHAD TO PRESIDENT
[...] Embassy received by hand a letter from President Idriss Deby for President George W. Bush on December 21. Text of the letter follows (post translation). 2. Begin Text: 20 December 2005 Mr. President: As you know, my country, Chad, is hosting more than 300,000 Sudanes [...]
2005-12-21 17:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL CD SD
05NDJAMENA1851CHAD: OIL REVENUE LAW UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Chad (GOC) has formally invited a World Bank team to come to Chad to discuss the Government's proposed amendments to the Oil Revenue Law and strengthening of the Public Finance System. Some donors have expressed concern that continued disagreement between the [...]
2005-12-27 14:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
05NDJAMENA1852CHAD: SLM REPORTS CHAD REBELS REGROUPING
[...] (SBU) Summary: SLM General Coordinator Adam Shogar warned Charge that the Sudanese government was arming and supporting Chadian rebels in the Darfur region and that movement of new vehicles and arms indicated that the rebels were gearing up for a new attack. Shogar stated that SLM was tryin [...]
2005-12-27 17:16:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CD SU
05NDJAMENA1871CHAD: SLM REPORTS CHAD REBELS REGROUPING
[...] (SBU) Summary: SLM General Coordinator Adam Shogar warned Charge that the Sudanese government was arming and supporting Chadian rebels in the Darfur region and that movement of new vehicles and arms indicated that the rebels were gearing up for a new attack. Shogar stated that SLM was tryin [...]
2005-12-29 09:22:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CD SU
05NDJAMENA1875CHAD ASSEMBLY AMENDS OIL LAW;BILL AWAITS
[...] SUMMARY: Following a four-hour delay, the Government of Chad-proposed legislation to amend the existing Revenue Management Law passed resoundingly in the National Assembly on December 29. The legislation now goes to the desk of the Head of State for promulgation (ratification). The rapid de [...]
2005-12-29 18:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
05NDJAMENA1878SPECIAL SELF-HELP PROGRAM (698-9901): FY 2005
[...] Summary: Special Self-Help (SSH) program budget allowance for FY 2005 of $77,000 was transmitted to Post August 10 by USAID accounting station in Bamako and was fully obligated September 26 with the signing of seven Individual Activity Agreements (IAAs) during a ceremony at the Embassy. The c [...]
2005-12-30 14:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID CD
05NDJAMENA20AMBASSADOR'S FY 2005 DISASTER DECLARATION: IMPACT
[...] This is an action cable. Please see para 8. 2. Disaster Determination. Under Section 062, Volume 2 of the Foreign Affairs Manual, I hereby determine that the Republic of Chad is suffering from a disaster which exceeds the host country's ability to provide an adequate response, that the ho [...]
2005-01-06 11:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA22SIXTH JOINT COMMISSION MEETING: REBEL MOVEMENTS
[...] (C) Summary. The Sixth Session of the Joint Commission on the Darfur Humanitarian Cease-fire (JC) was unable to break through the impasse over the Government of Sudan's (GOS) offensive operations in December. The mediation team and international community failed to persuade the movements to [...]
2005-01-07 10:05:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM CD SU
05NDJAMENA260PRESIDENT DEBY DOUBTS AFRICAN UNION'S CAPACITY ON
[...] (C) Summary. The African Union (AU) is not up to the task of establishing a tribunal on Darfur, but the decision on how to proceed should reflect whatever AU consensus is reached, President Deby told the Ambassador February 18. In the meeting held to convey the Secretary's letter to him on [...]
2005-02-18 17:17:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALKDEM KPKO PHUM PREL KAWC SU CD
05NDJAMENA261DEBY HOSTS HEADS OF STATE MEETING ON DARFUR
[...] (C) Summary. Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir agreed to stop aerial activity over Darfur and implement a unilateral ceasefire during the N'Djamena Summit on Darfur held on February 16. Bashir also told the heads of state of Chad, Gabon, Congo, representatives of Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, the [...]
2005-02-19 11:47:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA262SEVENTH JOINT COMMISSION MEETING: PROCESS INCHING
[...] (C) Summary: President Idriss Deby and African Union Commission President Alpha Konare opened the well-attended seventh Joint Commission on the Darfur Humanitarian Ceasefire (JC) on February 16. Despite an announced "boycott" of the meeting by leaders of the rebel movements, the Sudan Liber [...]
2005-02-20 12:00:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA263RUMORS OF REFUGEES RETURNING TO SUDAN
[...] (C) Summary: Per Ref A, P/E officer met with UNHCR officials, representatives of the National Movement for Reform and Democracy (NMRD),members of the Chad mediation team on Darfur, African Union (AU) officials responsible for Darfur, and members of the African Union Ceasefire Commission to [...]
2005-02-20 12:14:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA277CHAD SEEKS RAPID ACTION ON SUDAN TRIBUNAL,
[...] (C) Upon receiving ref B (notal),the Ambassador followed up to clarify Chad's views on a Sudan tribunal based on prior statements of support for our position in Libreville on February 11 (ref C). The Ambassador contacted President Deby's Special Advisor Alam-mi Ahmad by telephone February 1 [...]
2005-02-22 14:17:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALKDEM KPKO PHUM PREL CD SU
05NDJAMENA28CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC REFUGEES: DON'T FORGET US!
[...] Summary. Central African refugees told Ambassador Wall not to forget their plight during his visit to Amboko Camp in Gore on December 14. Amboko, in southern Chad near the border with Central African Republic, has been open since June 2003 and hosts 13,800 refugees who fled political unrest [...]
2005-01-10 06:50:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM CD SU CT
05NDJAMENA281ICRC OPERATIONS IN CHAD
[...] Summary. In addition to ICRC's traditional activities in Chad (e.g. detention visits and international humanitarian law dissemination),ICRC is playing a key role in eastern Chad in assisting refugee populations and local communities. ICRC's work with refugees specifically focuses on family [...]
2005-02-23 10:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA282REFUGEES IN CHAD: PRM/USAID VISIT TO TREGUINE,
[...] Summary. PRM/AFR Mary Lange and USAID/FFP (DART) Suzanne Poland traveled to the Adre region of Eastern Chad from February 16-18 to visit the refugee camps of Treguine, Bredjing, and Farchana and to meet with staff from UNHCR, WFP, IFRC, Chadian Red Cross, MSF, Secadev, CORD, and CARE. Camp po [...]
2005-02-23 10:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM KAWC CD SU USAID
05NDJAMENA283REFUGEES IN CHAD: PRM VISIT TO BAHAI
[...] Summary. PRM/AFR officer reviewed protection issues, provision of basic services, vacant staff positions, and the relocation of Oure Cassoni refugee camp during a visit from February 11-13. As the result of Oure Cassoni's close proximity to the Sudanese border, large numbers of young men mo [...]
2005-02-23 10:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA285KEEPING WEAPONS OUT OF SUDAN: CHAD'S RESPONSE
[...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with Foreign Minister Nagoum Yamassoum, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on keeping weapons out of Sudan. Yamassoum stated that as a mediator of the Darfurconflict, the Government of Chad maintains a neutral position and does not provide support to any f the [...]
2005-02-23 15:11:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ETTC CD SU
05NDJAMENA3062005 AGOA REPORT FOR CHAD
[...] Summary: Post submits the following for the 2005 AGOA Report to the President. End Summary. 2. Status: AGOA Eligible. 3. AGOA Trade and Investment: In 2004, Chad,s GDP was $4.6 billion and per capita income was $536. Petroleum now dominates Chadian exports to the United States. The [...]
2005-02-28 22:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PGOV PHUM CD
05NDJAMENA308CATTLE, CAMELS, ELEPHANTS, AND REFUGEES: SKETCHES
[...] (U) Pressures on the land are multiplying in southern Chad. Cattle and camel herds are expanding as nomads migrate further south and stay longer. Clashes with local farmers are breaking out as livestock trample crops and drain water reserves. Refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR [...]
2005-03-01 14:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD SU
05NDJAMENA326FALTERING CROPS AND A FRAGILE STATE: TROUBLES ON
[...] (SBU) Cash crops and the industries based on them should be thriving in southern Chad, the wettest, greenest part of this drought-prone country. Cotton, textiles, and sugar had at one time been sources of prosperity for millions in the region. But now cotton production is stagnant, and the [...]
2005-03-03 11:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD
05NDJAMENA329FALTERING CROPS AND A FRAGILE STATE: TROUBLES ON
[...] (SBU) Cash crops and the industries based on them should be thriving in southern Chad, the wettest, greenest part of this drought-prone country. Cotton, textiles, and sugar had at one time been sources of prosperity for millions in the region. But now cotton production is stagnant, and the [...]
2005-03-03 14:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD
05NDJAMENA330FALTERING CROPS AND A FRAGILE STATE: TROUBLES ON
[...] (SBU) Cash crops and the industries based on them should be thriving in southern Chad, the wettest, greenest part of this drought-prone country. Cotton, textiles, and sugar had at one time been sources of prosperity for millions in the region. But now cotton production is stagnant, and the [...]
2005-03-03 14:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD
05NDJAMENA370CHAD SEEKS HELP TO PAY FOR DARFUR MEDIATION
[...] (C) Summary. Chad needs help to defray the expenses of its mediation effort on Darfur and is asking for U.S. assistance, according to President Deby's top foreign affairs and military advisors. In the meeting they requested with the Ambassador March 7, the two leaders of Chad's mediation t [...]
2005-03-08 17:42:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PHUM PREL CD SU
05NDJAMENA384LIFTING TERM LIMITS: PUBLIC REFERENDUM SET FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Chad's public referendum on constitutional amendments to remove presidential term limits is scheduled for June 6. Voter registration for the referendum has been completed, but was plagued by numerous technical and logistics problems. The call by some opposition groups for a boy [...]
2005-03-14 06:37:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
05NDJAMENA390HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING
[...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals nominated for IMET training as of this date. 2. Mahamat Ousame Abdoulaye, Youssouf Louang Azi, Takoulngar M'Bainaye, Dadje Margata, Idriss Djid [...]
2005-03-14 15:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD
05NDJAMENA391HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ANTI-TERRORISM TRAINING
[...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals nominated for anti-terrorism training as of this date. 2. The names of the individuals vetted by the embassy are: Abakar Ousmane Adoum, Guere [...]
2005-03-14 15:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD
05NDJAMENA392HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR MINE ASSISTANCE TRAINING
[...] A seach of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals selected for Mine Assistance training as of this date. 2. The Embassy vetted the following individuals: Abakar Mahamat, Zenaba Jean, Hassan Brak [...]
2005-03-14 15:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD
05NDJAMENA402WAR OF WORDS OVER OIL REVENUE COLLEGE MEMBERSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Pascal Yoadjimnadji's rebuke of comments by the representative of human rights groups on the Oil Revenue Management College has touched off controversy in N'Djamena. The Government objected to College member Dobian Assingar's statement that new petroleum discoveri [...]
2005-03-17 06:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EPET CD
05NDJAMENA405CHAD'S CHANGING TACTICS ON DARFUR
[...] (C) Summary: Chadian President Idriss Deby's latest move to break the current impasse in Darfur involves working with the Sudan Liberation Movement. Currently, the Chadian Government is hosting a number of leaders and field commanders from the SLM in N'Djamena for discussions about the move [...]
2005-03-17 13:57:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM CD SU
05NDJAMENA44POSTCARD FROM MOUNDOU: RULING PARTY INSIDER'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a visit to Moundou on December 13, a ruling party member treated Ambassador Wall to a tour d,horizon of key issues facing Chad. Masagar Mbairidoum Lucas, the Secretary General of Moundou, described growing security problems, societal violence, and the culture of impunity [...]
2005-01-11 16:35:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CD
05NDJAMENA441CHADIAN TACTICS ALARM AFRICAN UNION
[...] (C) Summary: African Union officials are concerned that Chad's attempts to change the leadership of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) will contribute to major delays in restarting the Abuja talks. Ambassador Sam Ibok and Boubou Niang stopped in N'Djamena for consultations from March 18 to [...]
2005-03-22 13:48:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL CD SU
05NDJAMENA454NEW FINANCE MINISTER ON FUTURE OIL REVENUE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chad would like to use new oil revenues to enhance public security and protect vulnerable groups as well as reduce poverty, according to Chad's newly-appointed Minister of Finance. In a meeting with the Ambassador March 25, the new Minister also supported an independent panel [...]
2005-03-29 06:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PREL CD
05NDJAMENA491RECOMMENDATIONS TO MITIGATE FOOD INSECURITY
[...] This is an action cable. Please see para 8. 2. Summary. The presence in eastern Chad of more than 200,000 Sudanese refugees from the Darfur crisis has negatively affected the livelihoods and food security of the host population. In addition there has been meager, untimely rainfall durin [...]
2005-04-01 07:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA499HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ADDITIONAL PARTICIPANTS IN
[...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals nominated for anti-terrorism training as of this date. 2. The names of the individuals vetted by the Embassy are: Ali Hamid Youssouf, Chaibo Ha [...]
2005-04-02 12:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD
05NDJAMENA542SUDANESE REFUGEES IN CHAD REPORT ONGOING VIOLENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese refugees crossing the border into eastern Chad say violence continues to rage in Darfur, a claim backed by workers from international and non-governmental organizations and African Union monitors based in Chad and Sudan. Refugees described combined attacks involving S [...]
2005-04-05 10:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA543RIFTS IN REBEL RANKS PLAY OUT IN CHAD
[...] (C) Summary. Over the past month, several important developments that could affect cohesion and direction of the Darfur rebel movements have played out in Chad. As previously reported, Chadian officials invited members of the Sudan Liberation Movement SLM to N'Djamena to hold organizationa [...]
2005-04-05 10:33:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA555DARFUR REBEL DEMARCHE: HARIR AND SHOGAR ON SLM'S
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador delivered points in ref A to Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) members Dr. Sharif Harir and Adam Shogar on April 4. Both SLM leaders praised USG efforts on behalf of the three recently passed U.N. Security Council resolutions. They also reaffirmed their commitment [...]
2005-04-06 15:32:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA559EXECUTIVE INTERFERENCE AND REPRISALS UNDERMINE
[...] (U) Summary: In an apparent act of reprisal for their refusal to hand down the ruling favored by the Executive branch in a long-disputed property sale case, the Minister of Justice has demoted and reassigned the three Appeals Court justices involved in the case. The Union of Magistrates, the [...]
2005-04-08 07:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM EAID CD LY PJUS
05NDJAMENA565CHAD PUBLICLY ACCUSES SUDAN OF AIDING CHADIAN
[...] (C) Summary: On April 8, the Chadian Government convoked the diplomatic corps to accuse Khartoum publicly of "maintaining, arming, and financing" Chadian rebel groups inside Sudan. There are 3,000 Chadian rebels near El Geneina, Sudan, according to the Minister of Justice. Chad has long su [...]
2005-04-11 06:27:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA58CHAD'S PRESIDENT'S SON COMES CALLING
[...] (C) Summary. Chad's President Deby will accept the will of the people expressed in upcoming elections whatever the outcome, according to his son and personal secretary. The Ambassador used the opportunity of a meeting with Brahim Deby to probe into his father's views on staying in power for [...]
2005-01-17 19:49:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALBEXP KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD SU
05NDJAMENA589GENERAL WALD COMES TO CHAD
[...] (C) Summary: General Wald, Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command, visited the U.S.-trained Pan Sahel Unit and held meetings with President Idriss Deby, Minister of Defense Emmanuel Nadingar, and Chief of Defense Mahamat Saleh Kaya during his trip to Chad from April 10 to 11. President Deby [...]
2005-04-13 06:41:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PGOV CD VIP
05NDJAMENA59PRIME MINISTER FAKI GIVES SENATOR FEINGOLD A TOUR
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Moussa Faki shared the views of the Chadian Government on a wide range of issues with Senator Russell Feingold on January 13. Faki expressed his frustration that the situation in Darfur remains unresolved and his concerns about the plight of the local Chadian pop [...]
2005-01-18 06:56:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF CD SU VIP
05NDJAMENA60SENATOR FEINGOLD GETS AN EARFUL ON DARFUR IN CHAD
[...] (C) Summary: Senator Russell Feingold heard a number of perspectives on Darfur-related issues during his visit to Chad January 12-13. Feingold met with Sudanese refugees at Iridimi Refugee camp, held discussions with Foreign Minister Yamassoum and the Chad mediation team over the status of th [...]
2005-01-18 06:57:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
05NDJAMENA623CHAD'S PARTICIPATION IN 2005 AGOA FORUM
[...] The Ambassador delivered points by letter from REFTEL on 2005 AGOA forum to Minister of Commerce Routouang Yoma Golom. On April 6, he met with the Minister to discuss the points. He emphasized the importance of Chadian participation this year, given the growing importance of its economy for [...]
2005-04-19 06:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ECON ETRD
05NDJAMENA653MINISTER OF COMMERCE DISCUSSES COTTON ISSUES
[...] Summary: During a meeting with the Ambassador April 6, the Minister of Commerce discussed plans for an early-May meeting in N'djamena among Cotton-4 trade ministers to prepare a unified strategy for the upcoming WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong. The Minister reiterated the GOC's appeal for elim [...]
2005-04-25 09:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECIN ECON ETRD CD WTO
05NDJAMENA666EVICTING FORMER AMBASSADOR SOUBIANE
[...] (U) This is an action cable (see last para.) 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The former Chadian Ambassador to the US continues to occupy the official Residence in Washington and has maintained control of the official vehicle despite the arrival of the new Ambassador, Chad's Foreign Minister and Presid [...]
2005-04-27 13:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ODIP AMGT CD
05NDJAMENA73SENATOR FEINGOLD TALKS ABOUT ANTI-CORRUPTION WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Russell Feingold met with Mariam Ali, the newly-appointed Minister of Public Control and Ethics who also serves as an inspector general for government operations, and members of the Oil Revenue Management College to discuss transparency measures and mechanisms to contro [...]
2005-01-20 13:03:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM EPET ECON CD VIP
05NDJAMENA791SLM PLANS FOR DARFUR CONFERENCE
[...] (C) Summary: The Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) appears to be moving ahead with its plans to hold a meeting of its members in Darfur to make leadership changes. The long-awaited meeting may take place in three weeks time. SLM members from Asmara and Nairobi began arriving in N'Djamena to [...]
2005-05-16 10:31:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA81SENATOR FEINGOLD MEETS WITH DEFENSE MINISTER AND
[...] (C) Summary: Senator Russell Feingold expressed appreciation for Chad's cooperation in the war on terror and discussed human rights with Defense Minister Emmanuel Nadingar during his visit on January 13. Nadingar welcomed U.S. support for the Chadian military, which he says is needed to help [...]
2005-01-24 14:13:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF CD SU VIP
05NDJAMENA814REFUGEES IN EASTERN CHAD: MALNUTRITION RATES AND
[...] Summary: PRM Office Director for Assistance to Africa Margaret McKelvey and Program Officer Hazel Reitz visited Chad from May 4 to 18 to monitor the operations on behalf of the Sudanese refugees in the east of Chad. This cable, one of three reporting on the visit, focuses on efforts to unders [...]
2005-05-20 10:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA834REFUGEES IN EASTERN CHAD: A LOOK AHEAD (PART I)
[...] Summary: Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration officers Margaret McKelvey (Director of the Africa Office) and Hazel Reitz (Chad Program Officer and UNHCR liaison officer) visited Chad from May 4 to 18 to conduct a periodic review of progress of protection and assistance efforts for Da [...]
2005-05-23 14:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA835REFUGEES IN EASTERN CHAD: A LOOK AHEAD (PART II)
[...] (C) Summary: Bureau for Population, Migration, and Refugees Officers Margaret McKelvey and Hazel Reitz traveled to Chad from May 4 to 18 to conduct a periodic review of protection and assistance efforts in eastern Chad. This is the third of three cables from the visit. (Refs A and B). Some [...]
2005-05-24 06:53:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA863LIFTING TERM LIMITS: REFERENDUM APPROACHES,
[...] (SBU) Summary: The public referendum on proposed constitutional amendments will be held June 6, and allegations of manipulation and irregularities abound. Opposition parties and private radio stations have filed court cases regarding flaws in the registration process, the electoral list, and [...]
2005-05-30 16:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
05NDJAMENA866CHAD'S OIL REVENUE MANAGEMENT: DEALING WITH THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with visiting Treasury advisors May 23, Chad's Minister of Finance explained his commitment to implementing Chad's oil revenue management system, but expressed concerns over the need to designate new priority sectors eligible for oil revenue financing. He welcom [...]
2005-05-31 06:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA867CHAD'S OIL REVENUE MANAGEMENT COLLEGE UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Based on the assessment of visiting Treasury advisors, Chad's Oil Revenue Management College (the College) is working as intended and even in some cases has succeeded in exercising a stronger role than mandated. During their visit to N'Djamena May 15-26, Ken Torp and Eileen B [...]
2005-05-31 06:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA877WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING AND POACHING PATTERNS IN CHAD
[...] Begin Summary. Recent evidence of wildlife traf-ficking in Chad two distinct fronts: Gulf State Arab hunters/falconers engaging in sp in northern Chad and Sudanese poachers complicit with poor Chadian hu south-central regions. The combined toll of these activities on Chad remaining mammal po [...]
2005-06-01 14:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID CD
05NDJAMENA884SENATOR BIDEN MEETS REFUGEES AND REBELS, URGES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Joseph Biden delivered a strong message of U.S. support for the resolution of the crisis in Darfur, tempered by a frank discourse on the USG limitations, during his visit to Chad from May 31 to June 1. Biden traveled to Oure Cassoni Refugee Camp near Bahai, where he m [...]
2005-06-02 16:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU VIP
05NDJAMENA886TOUGH TIMES FOR CHADIAN EXPORTERS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Oil is spurring international investment interest in Chad and the interest of Chadian businesses in exporting overseas. However, Chadian businesses in non-oil sectors are facing a number of difficulties. Language barriers, infrastructure problems, and high operating costs a [...]
2005-06-03 11:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG EPET CD
05NDJAMENA887LIFTING TERM LIMITS: CENI READY FOR REFERENDUM
[...] (SBU) Summary: As the ruling party goes all out to drum up votes and opposition parties call for a boycott, Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) President Djimtibaye Lapia Neldjita is confident that the public referendum to amend the constitution, including lifting presidential te [...]
2005-06-03 14:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
05NDJAMENA901ESSO CONTRACTOR IN COMMERCIAL DISPUTE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Esso-led oil project is facing another commercial dispute involving one of its contractors. Members of a Chadian labor union took the contractor to court claiming the company did not pay them overtime salaries over a four-year period. According to Esso, TCC paid all of th [...]
2005-06-07 17:50:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET CD
05NDJAMENA902LIFTING TERM LIMITS: LOW TURN-OUT FOR PUBLIC
[...] Summary: Low voter turn-out characterized the public referendum on constitutional amendments, including one that removes presidential term limits, on June 6. The low turn-out is the result of several factors, including apathy, the declaration of a public holiday, and opposition calls for a b [...]
2005-06-07 18:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
05NDJAMENA932LIFTING TERM LIMITS: WHAT IF YOU HELD A REFERENDUM
[...] (C) Summary: The low voter turn-out for the public referendum on June 6 is still reverberating throughout Chad's political arena. For now, Chad's political players are preoccupied with digesting and explaining what happened and determining which way forward. President Deby, the ruling part [...]
2005-06-14 16:33:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
05NDJAMENA933CHADIAN MEDIATION TEAM VIEWS ON ABUJA TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: Chad's non-attendance for the opening days of the peace talks in Abuja stems from the mediation team's misgivings over the preparedness of the rebel movement delegations to negotiate and suspicions of Libyan maneuvering to close a deal outside the Abuja process. Ambassador Wall [...]
2005-06-14 16:39:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NDJAMENA946GOVERNMENT AND PRESS WRANGLING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Several incidents of press harassment over the past two months are raising concerns about the government's commitment to freedom of the press. Each case is different but a combination of jitters over the public referendum and overzealous government officials have created the a [...]
2005-06-17 11:50:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO CD
06NDJAENA1382 CHADIAN ELECTIONS IN 2007
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-30 18:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA1003CHAD'S BESIEGED PRIVATE SECTOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recent publication of a "white paper" by a leading Chadian business union spells out in detail the Government of Chad's failure to sustain a minimally enabling environment conducive to national and foreign investment. Chad's besieged private sector increasingly believes do [...]
2006-07-31 13:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON BEXP EFIN ETRD CD
06NDJAMENA1006FRANCE REFUTES OFFICIAL CHAD SUPPORT FOR DPA
[...] (C) Summary. Allegations by SLA leader Minni Minawi concerning Chad's support for DPA spoilers are false, according to the French Ambassador to Chad. He understands that President Deby's brother Daoussa Deby, and Mahamat Ali Nasser, Minister of Territorial Administration, are (with Libyan sup [...]
2006-07-31 16:22:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD PGOV PREL SU
06NDJAMENA1013CHAD: WORLD BANK OFFICIAL CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chadian authorities have taken concrete steps to demonstrate their commitment to the July 13 agreement between the GOC and the World Bank, according to the Bank's Senior Advisor on the Chad oil project. However, the Bank will still need to come to an agreement with the GOC on [...]
2006-08-01 16:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1014CHAD: CHADIAN REBEL PRESENTS GLOOMY OUTLOOK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Former GOC loyalist, current opposition member and ethnic Zaghawa Tom Erdimi paints a troubling near-term future for Chad. He claims that rebel groups consider the possibility for political dialogue with President Deby as dead, leaving the military solution as the only way to cha [...]
2006-08-01 17:23:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1018CHAD:NON-PRO COURIER APPROVAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-03 16:15:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPTER OTRA CD
06NDJAMENA1024EASTERN CHAD/SUDAN: PERSPECTIVES FROM DPA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Darfur Peace Accord signatories and non-signatories from the Sudanese rebel movement residing in Chad continue to accuse each other of being responsible for the recent violence in Darfur. Non-signatories still continue to call for a re-evaluation of the DPA, and have noted their [...]
2006-08-08 15:41:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1025CHADIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION SURPRISE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chad has become accustomed to its habitual position near the bottom of most international rankings, from infrastructure to human development. However, they now find themselves at the top of the Transparency International list of most corrupt countries, tied with Bangladesh. [...]
2006-08-08 16:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM CD ASEC
06NDJAMENA1026CHAD: NEW THREATS TO PRESS FREEDOM
[...] (SBU) Summary: A harsh new proposed law governing the press in Chad is back in the hands of its authors - high-ranking cabinet members - after being simultaneously recalled by the government and rejected by a National Assembly commission, who qualified it as "repressive." The proposed law, [...]
2006-08-08 16:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM CD ASEC
06NDJAMENA1028CHAD: BORDER SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While the onset of the rainy season has greatly reduced vehicule movements, Chadian military forces appear to be beefing up their presence along the eastern border. On the other side of the border, Chadian rebels are reported to be reorganizing their leadership structure. Eth [...]
2006-08-09 16:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1032CHAD: DAOUSSA DEBY DENIES CHADIAN SUPPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daoussa Deby, special advisor and half-brother of President Idriss Deby Itno, denied accusations by Sudanese Liberation Movement leader Minni Minawi and others that the Chadians are supporting Sudanese rebels who refused to sign the Darfur Peace Accords. He asserted that while [...]
2006-08-11 14:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1037CHAD: FOREIGN MINISTER ON SUDAN, DARFUR, AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The long-term success of the recent rapprochement between Khartoum and N'Djamena will hinge on the good will of the countries' respective leaders, according to Chad's Foreign Minister. He not only denied accusations of Chad's support for Sudanese rebel movements, but accused [...]
2006-08-14 10:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1054TAIWAN DIPLOMATS BID ADIEU TO CHAD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The timing of Chad's resumption of diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China was exquisitely timed to create the most humiliating situation possible for Taiwan, according to the outgoing Taiwan Ambassador. He speculated that Chad's decision was based on a desire to h [...]
2006-08-14 18:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CD TW
06NDJAMENA1055CHAD'S POLITICAL TALK: DIALOGUE OR MONOLOGUE?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Making good on informal commitments voiced before the May 3rd election, President Deby's government completed a week of "political dialogue" sessions on August 2. Dubbed by the opposition parties who boycotted the sessions and the independent press as a "monologue," a "masquer [...]
2006-08-14 18:14:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CD ASEC
06NDJAMENA1057ANOTHER FIVE YEARS FOR CHAD'S PRESIDENT DEBY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 8, after nearly sixteen years in power, President Deby rolled out the red carpet for himself and ten visiting African heads of state in a celebration to honor his claim to five more. The ceremony was marked by public displays of Chad's new rapprochement with Sudan and [...]
2006-08-15 10:39:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KDEM PGOV PHUM PREF PREL CD
06NDJAMENA1068TEXT OF JULY 26 CHAD-SUDAN AGREEMENT
[...] On August 11, Post received a hardcopy of the July 26 agreement signed by the Government of Chad and the Government of Sudan. Below is a translation of the relevant points of the agreement: 2. (BEGIN TRANSLATION) The two parties agree to interdict the use of their respective territori [...]
2006-08-17 16:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1069CHAD/SUDAN: THE SUDANESE REBELS' "LONG GOOD-BYE"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of the recent agreement between Chad and Sudan, Sudanese rebels loyal to the Justice and Equality Movement and the recently-formed National Redemption Front (NRF) have been asked by the GOC to leave Chad. According to representatives of the NRF, Sudanese rebels will conti [...]
2006-08-17 16:19:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1070CHAD: NEW GOVERNMENT NAMED
[...] (C) Summary. President Deby,s new cabinet rewards those opposition parties which participated in the May Presidential elections and subsequent "political dialogue," but makes no other gestures towards broadening Chad,s political space. The reappointment of heavyweights to the key positions of [...]
2006-08-17 16:22:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CD ASEC
06NDJAMENA1071INSECURITY IN GUEREDA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The town of Guereda, a hub for services to five Sudanese refugee camps in Eastern Chad, has experienced escalating insecurity since July 2006. In the most recent incident, the U.S.-funded NGO International Medical Corps (IMC) suffered a major theft and violent assault on nation [...]
2006-08-18 10:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1073CHAD SCENESETTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chad sits precariously between the Darfur conflict to its East, the chronically unstable Central African Republic to its South, and Niger, an equally impoverished neighbor to the West. Past a vast mine-pocked desert -- home to a tenacious but isolated Chadian insurgency -- li [...]
2006-08-18 11:22:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM PGOV CD SU
06NDJAMENA1078FRANCE ASKS WHERE'S THE EVIDENCE ON CHAD
[...] (C) Summary: France is prepared to hold President Deby to account if Minni Minawi's claims that Government of Chad (GOC) support is being channeled to Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatories can be proven, the French Ambassador to Chad told us August 21. However, France is concerned that [...]
2006-08-22 15:38:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1079NRF REPS DECRY AU EVICTION DECISION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The representatives for the Justice and Equality Movement/National Redemption Front, who are still in N'Djamena, have instructed their representatives in El Fasher that they should not leave the Cease Fire Commission unless the African Union provides a written statement requesting [...]
2006-08-22 16:24:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1080CHAD: ESSO CONCERNED ABOUT FUTURE OPERATIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the wake of Chad's renewed diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China, Esso is concerned that Chad's intention to re-negotiate the conventions with the Consortium and develop a national oil company portend a desire to do business with another more accommodating oil p [...]
2006-08-22 16:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1089CHAD DELIVERS OIL ULTIMATUM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the weekend, President Deby announced that the Government of Chad is instructing Oil Consortium members Chevron and Petronas to "close operations" and leave the country immediately, for alleged failure to pay income taxes. He has also announced the creation of a national c [...]
2006-08-27 12:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA109CHAD: POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS, MIXED SIGNALS FROM GOC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While signs are emerging of a resumption of dialogue between the World Bank and the Government of Chad (GOC),the National Assembly's passage of a resolution highly critical of the World Bank reveals significant obstacles still remain between the two players. On a positive not [...]
2006-01-27 06:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
06NDJAMENA1091CHAD OIL CONSORTIUM MULLS NEXT STEPS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOC has formally issued a notice to Chevron and Petronas suspending their oil activities in Chad for an alleged failure to pay income taxes. Petronas and Chevron are still determining whether and when to enter into arbitration over the tax dispute. Exxon-Mobil will seek a [...]
2006-08-28 19:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1094THE CHAD-SUDAN AGREEMENT: CAN IT HOLD?
[...] (C) Summary: Chadian officials claim that the recent Chad-Sudan agreement has the potential to improve relations between the two countries and enhance regional stability, but admit that it will be very difficult to implement. Some half-hearted measures are reported to have been taken by the [...]
2006-08-30 19:32:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1095CHAD: CHEVRON/PETRONAS TAX DISPUTE UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reiterating that oil consortium members Chevron and Petronas' tax agreement was "illegal," acting Petroleum Minister and National Petroleum Coordinator both expressed confidence that the situation could be resolved so long as Chevron and Petronas paid the taxes owed. According [...]
2006-08-30 19:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1096CHAD: CHEVRON/PETRONAS TAX DISPUTE UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reiterating that oil consortium members Chevron and Petronas' tax agreement was "illegal," acting Petroleum Minister and National Petroleum Coordinator both expressed confidence that the situation could be resolved so long as Chevron and Petronas paid the taxes owed. According [...]
2006-08-30 19:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1097UNHCR REVIEWS SECURITY IN EASTERN CHAD
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-31 11:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1105GOC REFUSES CHEVRON'S RIGHT TO CHAD'S OIL, AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 31, the GOC informed Esso that Chevron and Petronas were not permitted to produce or lift the country's crude oil for exportation and sales overseas. Chevron has alerted the Cameroon Oil Company that it intends to continue lifting its crude oil. Contrary to Chevron's [...]
2006-09-06 06:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1112SENATOR OBAMA MEETS WITH PRESIDENT DEBY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Deby stressed to Senator Obama the negative impact that continued violence in Darfur would have on regional security, and expressed his support for a United Nations Peacekeeping operation to pave the way for the implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement. Deby also [...]
2006-09-06 16:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1113SENATOR OBAMA VISITS REFUGEE CAMPS IN EASTERN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Following meetings with the African Union, UNHCR and partner organizations, and the Sudanese refugees, the message to Senator Obama was clear: a United Nations force was needed to bring security to the region. 2. (U) On September 2, Senator Barack Obama, accompanied by members of th [...]
2006-09-06 16:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA112CHAD: SECOND REQUEST TO DISCUSS EVACUATION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-27 09:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AEMR CASC AMGT CD
06NDJAMENA1124CHAD WILL NOT ATTEND NAM SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) CHAD'S AMERICA/EUROPE DESK OFFICER ADOUM MAHAMAT YAHYA AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (MFA) INFORMED PAO AND POLOFF THAT CHAD WILL NOT ATTEND THE NON-ALLIGNED MOVEMENT (NAM) SUMMIT IN HAVANA, CUBA, SEPTEMBER 11-16. THE DESK OFFICER INDICATED THAT THIS WAS NOT A POLITICAL DECISION B [...]
2006-09-09 15:03:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CD ASEC
06NDJAMENA1127SIGNS OF INSECURITY IN EASTERN CHAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Clashes between Chadian government forces amd rebel groups have occured in eastern Chad, following two days of a visible military buildup by the Chadian National Army and the movements of rebel groups inside eastern Chad. There are also signs of possible infiltration by Darfur Pe [...]
2006-09-11 09:56:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1137EVEN WITH AGREEMENT, CHEVRON STILL NOT OUT OF THE
[...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Since the compromise between Chevron and the GOC following the meeting between CEO O'Reilly and President Deby, the company still faces significant obstacles before it can re-enter the Consortium. While Chevron has agreed to pay taxes proportional to the taxes paid by Exxon-Mo [...]
2006-09-14 15:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG PGOV EPET CD
06NDJAMENA1151NRF REPRESENTATIVE ON CURRENT FIGHTING IN DARFUR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to their representative in N'Djamena, following what he claimed to be the National Redemption Front's victory in Um Sidir, the Sudan Armed forces are attempting to mount another offensive in the area, but have encountered opposition within their own ranks. SAF buildup [...]
2006-09-18 14:31:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1153CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR NEW SUDANESE REFUGEES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR is concerned that it will be unable to handle a massive influx of Sudanese refugees into Eastern Chad. The lack of viable camp sites (with adequate access, water sources, and assurances of security),along with UNHCR's own resource constraints, will hinder the organizatio [...]
2006-09-18 16:22:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1163CHEVRON FINALLY ABLE TO ARRIVE, GOC PRESSES ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a brief delay, Chevron, which finally received authorization to arrive in Chad, will meet GOC officials on Thursday to try to pay its taxes, per the September 7 agreement in Paris between President Deby and CEO O'Reilly. The GOC continues to press on with preparations fo [...]
2006-09-20 14:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1166FIGHTING ESCALATES IN EASTERN CHAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As Chadian forces launch an offensive against rebel groups in eastern Chad, President Deby himself has gone out to the battlefield to oversee the operations. Chadians are suspicious of French military involvement against the rebel movements, who are being reinforced by a prominen [...]
2006-09-21 17:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1167FIGHTING ESCALATES IN EASTERN CHAD (CORRECTED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As Chadian forces launch an offensive against rebel groups in eastern Chad, President Deby himself has gone out to the battlefield to oversee the operations. Chadians are suspicious of French military involvement against the rebel movements, who are being reinforced by a prominen [...]
2006-09-21 17:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1173NMRD REPRESENTATIVE ON SITUATION IN DARFUR,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of the NMRD, a non-signatory to the Darfur Peace Agreement, still wish to be involved in the Darfur Peace Agreement's implementation, but point to the need for dialogue among the non-signatories of the DPA and their inclusion into the implementation of the agreemen [...]
2006-09-25 16:35:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1178CHAD OPPOSITION SEEKS INTERVENTION IN WAKE OF
[...] (C) Summary. In the wake of reported heavy fighting in eastern Chad, opposition leaders called on the Ambassador to urge the international community to impose a cease-fire and force President Deby to hold a national dialogue which included the rebel factions. The Ambassador assured them of [...]
2006-09-27 14:58:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA1182NEW DIRECTOR OF CHAD PRESIDENT'S CIVIL CABINET
[...] (C) Summary. The new Director of President Deby's Civil Cabinet told the Ambassador that Chadian rebels in the east were effectively confined to a zone near the border and would not venture further into Chad. He spoke frankly of ongoing negotiations with the rebels and reported some success [...]
2006-10-02 11:32:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA1183UNHCR'S SECURITY CONCERNS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNHCR still remains concerned that it will not have the capacity to cope with a refugee influx, and new IDP movements should violence in eastern Chad escalate after the end of the rainy season. Chadian government representatives are absent from a number of areas where UNHCR op [...]
2006-10-02 16:31:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1184SECURITY IN EASTERN CHAD FOLLOWING GOC-REBEL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the most recent clashes in eastern Chad between GOC forces and Chadian rebels, President Deby has returned to N'Djamena and is trying to negotiate with individual rebel factions, but still appears to be reinforcing his military along the eastern front. The rebels appea [...]
2006-10-02 16:53:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1199CHAD CONSIDERING ATTACK ON REBELS IN SUDAN
[...] (S) General Ismail Chaibo, director general of Chad's National Security Agency, told the Ambassador October 3 that an attack by the Chadian army against Chadian rebel positions in western Sudan is likely in the period after Ramadan and the end of the rainy season in early November. Chaibo sa [...]
2006-10-03 12:51:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETPGOV PHUM PREL CD
06NDJAMENA1205CHAD: MORE TROUBLES AHEAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The respite President Deby enjoyed after his inauguration on August 8 for another five-year term in power did not last long. Last month he had to intervene personally in campaigns to rout out Chadian rebel forces from their strongholds in eastern Chad. The failure of his offe [...]
2006-10-04 12:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
06NDJAMENA1213CHAD:CHEVRON STILL SEEKING A RESOLUTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chevron representatives are currently in N'Djamena, and plan to use high-profile consultant Andrew Young to meet directly with President Deby to resolve the company's tax dispute with the GOC. Chevron still asserts that the tax benefit agreement it negotiated with the GOC is a [...]
2006-10-06 06:45:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1215CHAD REFUGEES CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF SUDANESE
[...] (SBU) Less than 24 hours after UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative informed Charge that Sudanese refugees in camps along the northern Chad border with Sudan were in imminent danger, fighting broke out in and around the camps between Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signat [...]
2006-10-08 14:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1216CHAD: CHEVRON/PETRONAS AGREE ON TAX PAYMENT
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Chad (GOC) agreed October 6 to lift the suspension of oil consortium members Chevron and Petronas after Chevron and Petronas agreed to pay USD 281 in taxes. Payment will be made in a lump sum seven days after the agreement is officially promulgated. A Chevro [...]
2006-10-09 11:14:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1224CHAD ON NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TEST
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-12 09:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PREL PARM MNUC WMD KPAO PTER KNAR CD
06NDJAMENA1232SLM ON CHAD BORDER CLASH
[...] (C) Summary. Adam Shogar, the Sudanese Liberation Movement,s N,Djamena representative, told Poloff in a 10/12 meeting that the SLM had beaten Sudanese government forces in Darfur in a battle on 10/07 near the Chadian border, inflicting heavy casualties and capturing many soldiers and a gr [...]
2006-10-13 10:29:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL MOPS CD SU
06NDJAMENA1238CHAD: SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP VOTE
[...] (SBU) Charge made points in reftel B to Djinna Moussa Outman, Chad Minister Delegue (Deputy Foreign Minister) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 13, 2006. Outman informed Charge that Chad shared the U.S. view that the election was an important one but made no other comment on the c [...]
2006-10-13 14:53:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC GT VE PREL CD
06NDJAMENA1245CHAD STILL MUM ON SECURITY COUNCIL VOTE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-17 14:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC GE VT CD
06NDJAMENA1249SUDANESE REBELS CALL THE SHOTS IN CHADIAN TOWN OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The northeastern Chadian town of Bahai was revealed to be a JEM-controlled stronghold following the clash between the National Redemption Front (NRF) and Sudanese Government forces October 7-8. Following that battle, numerous Sudanese soldiers remain in Chadian custody and the [...]
2006-10-19 13:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PGOV SU CD
06NDJAMENA1255CHADIAN REBELS AND INTER-ETHNIC CLASHES IN GOZ
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 22, Chadian rebels occupied the Chadian town of Goz Beida (southeastern Chad) for less than 24 hours. Able to take the town without a fight (local authorities had left the day before),the rebels reportedly departed northward. Rebels did not threaten humanitarian wo [...]
2006-10-23 14:31:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1256EASTERN CHAD REFUGEES: CONTINGENCY PLANNING
[...] Summary. UN and NGO contingency planning for new refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in eastern Chad is significantly constrained by site availability. Sites exist on a permanent or transit basis for roughly 35,000 refugees. If an influx exceeds this absorption capacity, UNHCR [...]
2006-10-24 16:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1259N'DJAMENA ON HIGH ALERT
[...] (U) Summary. N'Djamena is on high alert as rebel forces have moved into central Chad. End summary. 2. (SBU) With the end of Ramadan and the beginning of the dry season, rebel activity, as expected, has increased in eastern Chad. Embassy contacts are reporting that rebel forces entere [...]
2006-10-24 16:35:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC MOPS PREL CD
06NDJAMENA1268CHADIAN REBELS PULL BACK
[...] (U) There were no reported rebel advances today (10/25). Rumors have the rebels located anywhere within the Chari Baguimi district (11,00 N; 17,00 E),as well as near Mongo (12,11 N; 18,42 E) and Am Timan (11,02 N; 20,17 E),from 200 to 400 KM from N,Djamena. Embassy sources, including a w [...]
2006-10-25 17:11:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC MOPS PREL CD
06NDJAMENA1272CHAD DIMENSIONS OF UNSC 1706
[...] (SBU) Summary. There is an acute need for an international presence on the Chadian side of the border, according to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) N'Djamena. UNHCR reports a fledgling collaboration with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in implementin [...]
2006-10-26 15:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1273CHADIAN REBELS LEAVE--INTACT
[...] (U) Rebel forces continue their withdrawal, so far eluding any attempt by the Chadian National Army (ANT) to intercept them. Reports indicate that this morning they were only 90 KM from the Central African Republic and were heading toward CAR rather than directly back to Sudan, thus avoiding [...]
2006-10-26 16:32:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC MOPS PREL CD
06NDJAMENA1276CHADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON REBELS AND DARFUR
[...] (C) Summary. In a 27 October meeting with the Ambassador, Chadian Foreign Minister Allam-Mi contended that Chadian rebels are an extension of the Sudanese government's policy of destabilizing Chad. The Foreign Minister stated that Chad favors an international peacekeeping force on Sudan's [...]
2006-10-27 15:00:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF CD SD
06NDJAMENA1281CHAD GENERAL KILLED IN AMBUSH BY REBELS
[...] (SBU) Summary: A leading Chadian general died of his wounds after being ambushed by the rebel group Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD). Government of Chad reports of Sudanese bombing in Chad's north eastern border region were contradicted by humanitarian groups on the ground [...]
2006-10-30 13:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1297CHAD:TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATING OFFICER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-02 17:19:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN CD
06NDJAMENA1301MANAGING CHAD'S OIL REVENUES: 2005 REPORT CARD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chad's Oil Revenue Management College 2005 Annual Report presents a vivid picture of just how difficult it is to spend money well in Chad -- despite the multitude of needs. While the College continues to strengthen its ability to verify use of oil revenues, it lacks the resourc [...]
2006-11-06 08:49:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG PGOV EPET CD
06NDJAMENA1306DPA DISENCHANTMENT AMONG CHADIAN OFFICIALS AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives of both the Chadian Government refugee agency (speaking unofficially) and a Chad-based Darfur rebel group had common interpretations of the ineffectiveness of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) and of the responsibilities of the international community, namely the [...]
2006-11-06 15:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD PGOV PREF PREL SU KPKO
06NDJAMENA1307IMF-WORLD BANK TEAM PRESENTS GLOOMY REVIEW
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The IMF-World Bank joint mission is facing challenges in its attempts to work with Chadian authorities to develop a medium-term expenditure framework for oil revenue management, according to the mission's team leaders. The GOC's inability to accept the realities of dwindling o [...]
2006-11-07 07:53:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1310CHAD'S COMMERCE MINISTER FOLLOWING WASHINGTON VISIT
[...] SUMMARY: While noting the positive spirit of meetings in Washington and understanding of the U.S. position in the WTO trade negotiations, Chad's Minister of Commerce reiterated Chad's insistence on the specific treatment of cotton in the context of global trade discussions. He was also critic [...]
2006-11-07 15:50:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELAB ENRG PGOV ETRD CD
06NDJAMENA1316CHAD GEARING UP FOR OIL CONVENTION NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOC is continuing to develop its gameplan for the country's upcoming negotiations with the oil consortium, according to Chad's petroleum minister. The Government believes that the country should have a greater stake in Chad's petroleum production, and will insist on greate [...]
2006-11-08 15:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG EPET CD
06NDJAMENA1318NEW CHADIAN REBEL ALLIANCE--UFDD
[...] (C) Summary. Three Chadian rebel groups formed a new alliance in October 2006. According to its communique, the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) wants to organize transparent elections and abhors taking power by force. Nonetheless, it sent an armed column into central [...]
2006-11-09 07:11:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV RREL PINR CD SU
06NDJAMENA1320BORDER TENSION BETWEEN CHADIAN AND SUDANESE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite talk of reconciliation between Chad and Sudan, the Chad/Sudan border north of the Abeche corridor appears to be the scene of continued tension between Chadian and Sudanese forces. End Summary. GOS VS GOC AT THE BORDER ------------------------ 2. (SBU) The Head of [...]
2006-11-09 14:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1321INTER-ETHNIC FIGHTING IN CHAD & POSSIBLE SUDAN
[...] (C) Summary. Ethnic violence has broken out along the southeast Chad-Sudan border south of Goz-Beida in the Salamat region. According to our contacts, more than 100 individuals have been killed in fighting between Arabs and non-Arabs; and senior Chadian officials are linking the violence to [...]
2006-11-09 18:22:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1327CHAD IMPOSES STATE OF EMERGENCY
[...] (C) Summary. The Chadian Government has imposed a State of Emergency on eastern, southern, and northern provinces, reportedly to combat rebel activity and to quell inter-ethnic violence. Two ministers were given extraordinary powers at the regional level to control the GOC response to rebel [...]
2006-11-14 18:20:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PREF CD
06NDJAMENA1333GOC PLANS TO PURGE GUEREDA?
[...] (SBU) Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Guereda report escalating ethnic violence between Zaghawas and Tamas, and suspect the Government of Chad (GOC) is stepping up its campaign to purge Guereda of Tamas. NGOs accuse the GOC of trying to eliminate any possibility of international scru [...]
2006-11-15 15:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1334IDP CRISIS IN GOZ BEIDA
[...] (SBU) Goz Beida has become significantly more unstable as a result of attacks on villages which have produced a new wave of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Attempts to tally numbers of individuals and families are underway, but UNHCR staff from the town of Kou Kou-Angarana estimated that [...]
2006-11-15 16:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1339REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT REFERRAL: DAOUD IBRAHIM HARI
[...] (SBU) Embassy N'Djamena would like to refer the following refugee resettlement case. Below is the biographic information of the candidate, a description of the persecution claim, and a justification of resettlement. 2. (SBU) NAME: Daoud Ibrahim Hari DOB: 1973 POB: Musbat, Darfur [...]
2006-11-20 06:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1343CHADIAN REBEL GROUP UFDD ESTABLISHES POLITBURO
[...] In a communique dated November 12, 2006, the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) named its politburo. An informal translation follows: Quote Republic of Chad Political Military Opposition Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) After consultations amon [...]
2006-11-21 08:22:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINR CD
06NDJAMENA1348ESSO'S CONCERNS ON CHAD SECURITY, CONVENTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Esso-led oil consortium has formally notified the GOC that it will not re-negotiate its existing convention with the Government, but will consider new agreements that would allow the GOC to have a role in the country's oil production at new sites. While the government has [...]
2006-11-22 13:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EFIN ENRG PGOV EPET CD
06NDJAMENA1350UN AND NGO COMMUNITY ON INTERNATIONAL FORCE FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In two separate meetings on November 21, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Chad made clear that any eventual international force on the eastern border with Sudan should focus on protection of humanitarian corridors and not involve itself in Chadian [...]
2006-11-22 16:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO
06NDJAMENA1351NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO CHAD ON POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: The new French Ambassador to Chad acknowledged that France's special relationship with Chad made it difficult to push for the kind of political overtures which were needed to strengthen Chad's democratic institutions; he looked to the EU troika to assist in carrying the message. [...]
2006-11-24 15:02:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD PGOV PREF SU
06NDJAMENA1356CHADIAN REBELS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE
[...] (C) Summary. Chadian rebels may have taken the important regional capital of Abeche and appear to have taken Biltine. Looting is reported in Abeche, though the French garrison has secured the airport and is offering sanctuary to civilians. Two major rebel groups appear to be cooperating i [...]
2006-11-25 15:54:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PREF CD MOPS
06NDJAMENA1357NDJAMENA EAC FOLLOW UP
[...] (C) On November 25, 2006, the EAC reconvened at 1600 to reassess the reports of the Chadian rebel attacks on Abeche and in the East. Those present were the Ambassador, DCM, DAO, RSO, CONS, POL, ECON, GSO, MGT, MO, POL/MIL. 2. (C) US Embassy EAC met previously at 0900 (REFTEL). The situation [...]
2006-11-25 16:16:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC
06NDJAMENA1358UPDATE ON CHADIAN REBEL OFFENSIVE
[...] (C) The Chadian National Army (ANT) reoccupied the regional capital of Abeche this morning, 11/26, after the rebel United Front for Democracy and Development (UFDD) pulled out at about 0400 hours local heading east with 180 vehicles in the direction of the Sudan border. The World Food Progr [...]
2006-11-26 16:11:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS CD
06NDJAMENA1359EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS REBEL ADVANCE
[...] (C) On November 26, 2006, the N,djamena EAC reconvened at 1300 and later, 1900 to discuss the movements of the Chadian rebels moving west towards N,djamena. Those present were the Ambassador, DCM, DAO, RSO, CONS, POL, ECON, GSO, MGT, MO, POL/MIL. 2. (C) When the US Embassy EAC met 1300, the [...]
2006-11-26 19:40:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC
06NDJAMENA1360CHADIAN REBEL OFFENSIVE--EVENING UPDATE
[...] (C) As of 1900 hours local, the French Ambassador reported that the UFDD rebel column which withdrew from Abeche (13,49 N; 20,49 E) this morning, 11/26, was approximately 100 KM northeast of Abeche and that the northern SCUD (RaFD) column was approximately 100 KM west of Biltine, significant [...]
2006-11-26 20:01:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS CD
06NDJAMENA1368CHADIAN FM ACCUSES SAUDIS OF AIDING REBELS
[...] (U) Chadian Foreign Minister Allam-Mi called in the Ambassador this morning, 11/27, to discuss the current rebel attacks in Chad and the GOC's public allegation that Saudi Arabia is supporting the rebellion. The FM was meeting with each Chief of Mission individually. 2. (C) The FM stat [...]
2006-11-27 16:04:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PREF CD SU SA LY
06NDJAMENA1369UPDATE ON CHADIAN REBEL OFFENSIVE
[...] (U) Mahamat Nouri, leader of the United Front for Democracy and Development (UFDD),told BBC that rival rebel forces (read Timan Erdimi's RaFD/SCUD) were located in Kanem Region northeast of Moussoro (13,39 N; 16,29 E) about 200 Km from N'Djamena. The Chadian Defense Minister denied Nouri's [...]
2006-11-27 17:08:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS CD
06NDJAMENA1370N'DJAMENA EAC FOR NOV 27, 2006
[...] (C) On November 26, 2006, the N,djamena EAC convened at 1600 to assess the movements of the Chadian rebels moving west towards N,djamena. Those present were the Ambassador, DCM, DAO, RSO, CONS, POL, ECON, GSO, MGT, MO, POL/MIL. 2. (C) The situation remains stable for now as no confirmed mov [...]
2006-11-27 18:10:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC
06NDJAMENA1371CHADIAN UPDATE
[...] (C) There are no reports of new rebel movements today, 11/28. There are unconfirmed press reports that Mahamat Nouri's United Front for Democracy and Development rebels shot down a Chadian military aircraft northeast of Abeche with a SAM-7 missile taken from Chadian army stores in Abeche. [...]
2006-11-28 17:38:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS CD
06NDJAMENA1372N'DJAMENA EAC CONVENE FOR NOV 28
[...] (C) On November 28, 2006, the N,djamena EAC convened at 1730 to assess the movements of the Chadian rebels moving west towards N,djamena. Those present were the Ambassador, DCM, DAO, RSO, CONS, POL, ECON, GSO, MGT, MO, POL/MIL. 2. (C) The situation in the East is still uncertain with the re [...]
2006-11-28 17:54:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC
06NDJAMENA1376INTER-ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN SOUTHEASTERN CHAD:
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recent inter-ethnic violence in southeastern Chad, which has its roots in historical divisions and competition for land resources, has been amplified by deteriorating relations between Chad and Sudan, according to human rights researchers groups visiting the region. While [...]
2006-11-29 14:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1378PRESIDENT DEBY ON INTERNATIONAL FORCE ON CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary. Meeting with the Ambassador, President Deby stressed that he was not against an international force in eastern Chad, but needed to know the composition, mandate and authority before taking a decision. He reminded the Ambassador that Sudan would use any excuse to place a "pro- [...]
2006-11-29 19:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1379A MUZZLED CHADIAN PRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Losing readership and unable to report on the real news in Chad, representatives of the francophone print media are demoralized and frustrated. While independent newspapers reach only a small Chadian elite, the censorship imposed during the State of Emergency has dealt a seve [...]
2006-11-30 08:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM CD PGOV
06NDJAMENA1380 CHADIAN ELECTIONS IN 2007
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Chadian government estimates that the 2006 com ================ The Election Request ================ 2. (U) In a letter dated October 5, 2006, Chadian Prime Minister Pasc 3. (U) Separate studies funded by the UNDP and the EU concluded that --a population c [...]
2006-11-30 10:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA1381CHAD 11/30 UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary. The Government of Chad remains jumpy about rumors of rebel activities. It appears that rebel forces have not withdrawn to Sudan. At a convocation of ambassadors on 11/28, Chad's Foreign Minister issued a statement about the state of war that exists between Chad and Sudan. Pre [...]
2006-11-30 18:07:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF CD
06NDJAMENA1382 CHADIAN ELECTIONS IN 2007
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Chadian government estimates that the 2006 communal elections and the 2007 legislative elections will cost around $11.65 million; and it has requested financial assistance from the US, France, Germany, the European Union, and the United Nations Development Program. Th [...]
2006-11-30 18:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA1383DPKO STILL FORMULATING PLAN FOR EASTERN CHAD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador and Poloff met with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Technical Assessment Mission (TAM) on December 1 and 2, before and after a meeting between the TAM and President Deby. The TAM reported that Deby had agreed in principle to deployment [...]
2006-12-04 09:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL SU UNSC CD KPKO
06NDJAMENA1389INTERNATIONAL FORCE IN CHAD: SIDE WITH THE GOOD
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. This cable outlines some of the important factors we recommend for consideration in preparing for a possible peacekeeping presence in Chad. Above all, the mandate of this force should be focused on the area which could make the most immediate impact on the ground: pro [...]
2006-12-05 12:45:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD KPKO PGOV PREF PREL SU UNSC
06NDJAMENA1393LETTER FROM CHAD FOREIGN MINISTER TO THE SECRETARY
[...] (U) The Embassy received a letter dated December 5, 2006 from the Minister of Foreign Affairs for transmission to the Secretary of State. Unofficial translation follows: SIPDIS 2. (SBU) Madam Minister, I write to you after returning home to Tchad following a fruitful and friendly e [...]
2006-12-05 16:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD PGOV PREF PREL SU
06NDJAMENA1400CHAD: GOVERNMENT, WORLD BANK AND IMF AGREE ON 2007
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The World Bank and the IMF and the Government of Chad have been able to agree on what the Bank believes is a sustainable budget for 2007. A Bank mission will return in mid-December to continue work on a stabilization mechanism for unspent oil revenues and finalize a poverty re [...]
2006-12-06 15:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1402JEM'S KHALIL IBRAHIM VISITS CHAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Instability in Chad is a result of the Government of Sudan's plans to destabilize the Deby regime, destroy indigenous populations, and permit the migration of Arab communities to these areas, according to Justice and Equality Movement's Khalil Ibrahim. Khalil would not openly ad [...]
2006-12-07 11:14:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1404UN DRAWDOWN IN EASTERN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary. The UN convoked donors and UN agencies to describe the deteriorating security situation in eastern Chad and steps the UN has taken to protect staff and ensure the delivery of essential services. Refugee camps in northern Chad are essentially being run by refugee committees with [...]
2006-12-07 20:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PGOV SU CD
06NDJAMENA1405CHAD: REPORT FROM BAHAI AS UN STAFF DRAW DOWN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Typically an area of activity between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the National Redemption Front (NRF) rebels, Bahai was eerily quiet December 5-7, as the town and nearby Oure Cassoni refugee camp prepared for the December 7 departure of United Nations essential staff. NR [...]
2006-12-07 20:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PREF PHUM SU PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA141CHAD: REBEL SCORECARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chad is bracing for more rebel attacks along the border. Chadian authorities firmly believe that the Government of Sudan is supporting Mahamat Nour, and possibly others, in their efforts to overthrow the regime of President Idriss Deby Itno. This perception, coupled with Chad' [...]
2006-01-31 11:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1411CHAD SCENESETTER
[...] (C) Summary: N'djamena today is a tank-ringed garrison town as President Idriss Deby Itno defends his 16-year regime against increasingly emboldened rebels -- many of them from his own clan. Civil society and the opposition political parties have called for an inclusive dialogue and an end t [...]
2006-12-12 06:50:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM PGOV CD SU
06NDJAMENA1414CHAD: MINISTER DEFENDS PRESS CENSORSHIP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The continued censorship of the Chadian press is justified as long as Chad is in a state of war with rebel movements trying to destabilize the country, according to the country's Minister of Communication, responding to concerns raised by the Ambassador about the restrictions. [...]
2006-12-13 09:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPAO PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA1416CHADIAN ARMY PURSUES REBELS INTO SUDAN
[...] (C) Chadian army units crossed into Sudanese territory late on December 12 in pursuit of Chadian rebel forces, according to Acting Foreign Minister Hourmadji Moussa Doumgor in a brief meeting held at his request with the Ambassador December 13. Doumgor said he was under instructions from Pr [...]
2006-12-13 14:04:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL SU CD
06NDJAMENA1419CHAD GOVERNMENT SETS UP IDP FUND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Concerned that escalating violence in eastern Chad has reduced the capacity, if not the commitment, of the international humanitarian community to respond to the needs of newly internally displaced persons (IDPs),the Government of Chad (GOC) seeks foreign donor contributions [...]
2006-12-14 06:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM CD SU
06NDJAMENA142CHAD: ESSO FEARS STOP ORDER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Esso is concerned that the World Bank's response to the Consortium's request for a waiver could prompt President Deby to ask the Consortium to halt oil production. Esso has also pointed out the possibility of an income tax windfall from the Consortium into the GOC's coffers, p [...]
2006-01-31 11:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
06NDJAMENA1423CHAD:MAJOR BATTLES FOUGHT IN EAST
[...] (C) Summary: The Chadian government has announced that Chadian rebels have been decisively vanquished in the latest round of battles in Biltine and Hadjer Marfaine and pushed back into Sudan. French Ambassador Foucher seconded the GOC's claim that the opposition had been crushed in a conve [...]
2006-12-14 15:58:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV CD SU
06NDJAMENA143CHAD: REBEL SCORECARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chad is bracing for more rebel attacks along the border. Chadian authorities firmly believe that the Government of Sudan is supporting Mahamat Nour, and possibly others, in their efforts to overthrow the regime of President Idriss Deby Itno. This perception, coupled with Chad' [...]
2006-01-31 15:41:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1431CHADIAN OPPOSITION LEADER FLOATS IDEAS FOR DIALOGUE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Southern Muslim opposition leader Saleh Kebzabo told Ambassador that he is floating ideas with President Deby, the French and leaders of Chad,s political and armed opposition for a dialogue that could lead to comprehensive internal and regional peace. More flexible than the pr [...]
2006-12-18 14:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD PGOV PHUM PREL SU
06NDJAMENA1432MEETING WITH KHALIL IBRAHIM IN ABECHE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a two-hour meeting in Abeche, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim expressed JEM's desire to be included in any forthcoming negotiations on an international presence in Chad. He was evasive about JEM involvement in recent fighting between Chadian g [...]
2006-12-18 17:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1433TENSIONS MOUNTING IN GOZ BEIDA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As UNHCR prepares for the High Commissioner's visit to IDP camps near Goz Beida, there are a number of reports of Janjaweed activity in the vicinity; the Chadian military and local self-defense militia appear to be reinforcing their elements for a possible defense. UNHCR expect [...]
2006-12-18 18:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PREF SU PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA1434CHAD: GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR - GLOBAL PURSUIT OF
[...] (C) Per reftel, below are responses to questions on host country's terrorist information exchange programs: A. Immigration Databases: Chad does not have computerized immigration databases. B. Watchlist and Information Sharing: There is a name-based watchlist used to screen travelers [...]
2006-12-19 10:10:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS
06NDJAMENA1444LULL IN CHAD REBEL ACTIVITY; GOC TRIES NEW TACK IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting between Chadian rebel forces and the Chadian Army (ANT) has subsided since December 18. Reports of a rapprochement between rebel FUC (United Front for Change) leader Mahamat Nour and President Deby providing for the integration of Nour forces into the ANT have not been [...]
2006-12-22 12:20:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREF PREL SU CD
06NDJAMENA181CHAD AND WORLD BANK: TALKS ON OIL REVENUE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the breakdown of talks between the Government of Chad (GOC) and the World Bank, both sides in N'Djamena privately indicate that the other is at fault. GOC representatives claim that World Bank President Wolfowitz reneged at the last minute on a proposal (agreed to by b [...]
2006-02-08 09:53:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
06NDJAMENA182CHAD AND WORLD BANK: TALKS ON OIL REVENUE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the breakdown of talks between the Government of Chad (GOC) and the World Bank, both sides in N'Djamena privately indicate that the other is at fault. GOC representatives claim that World Bank President Wolfowitz reneged at the last minute on a proposal (agreed to by b [...]
2006-02-08 11:10:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
06NDJAMENA210CHAD:DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST DANISH CARTOONS
[...] At approximately 0800 on February 11, 2006 a group of 3,000 Chadians gathered at the Grand Mosque, located approximately 2 miles from the U.S. Embassy, to protest the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. The group proceeded to the parade ground in front of the Presidential Palace [...]
2006-02-13 14:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASCR CD
06NDJAMENA217CHAD: EAC CONVENES ON AVIAN INFLUENZA
[...] Ndjamena Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened Monday, February 13 and discussed Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak in northern Nigeria. Given weak animal-health border controls between Nigeria and neighboring countries Niger, Chad and Cameroon, EAC agreed that the outbreak met the criteria fo [...]
2006-02-14 16:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR CD
06NDJAMENA240CHAD: NSDD 38 - DOD/DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-16 13:43:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALAODE KMRS AMGT ABLD ASEC KSPR CD
06NDJAMENA243CHAD: NEW DEVELOPMENTS ENHANCE GOC REVENUES, BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While discussions between the Government of Chad and the World Bank over revisions to the revenue management law remain at an impasse, other developments are affecting the country's oil sector. The agreement between the GOC and the Taiwan state-owned China Petroleum Company has [...]
2006-02-17 13:49:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
06NDJAMENA244CHAD: DEBY MEETS WITH ESSO, RESPONDS TO WOLFOWITZ
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Deby has raised with Esso the possibility of severing links with the World Bank, and ordering a shut-down of the Consortium's operations. For its part, Esso has noted the grave implications of such actions, and is proposing a possible compromise to reopen dialogue amon [...]
2006-02-20 12:24:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV
06NDJAMENA251CHAD PLEASED WITH U.S. SUBSIDY ELIMINATION,
[...] SUMMARY: Following Hong Kong, Chad's Minister of Commerce has expressed the GOC's approval for U.S. measures to eliminate the Step 2 program, and provide technical assistance for Chad and other cotton-producing countries. Nevertheless, the GOC remains concerned by the rapid need to improve th [...]
2006-02-21 16:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA252CHAD: GOVERNMENT EXPRESSES WILLINGNESS TO WORK
[...] (C) Summary: The Chadian Government convoked the diplomatic corps to state its willingness to talk the opposition about participation in the electoral process and to welcome donor assistance for the upcoming elections. Members of the diplomatic corps asked the Government what actions it had [...]
2006-02-21 17:46:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA296CHAD: INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS DISCUSS ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The French Ambassador in Chad gave vent to a gloomy view of the Chadian political scene to the EU and U.S. Ambassadors and UN resrep February 24. Meeting the day before the announcement that presidential elections will take place May 3, he acknowledged that Deby was unacceptable [...]
2006-02-26 18:33:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA299CHAD: FOREIGN MINISTER'S RESPONSE ON UN REFORM
[...] In a meeting with Chad,s Foreign Minister Ahmad Allam-mi February 27, the Ambassador delivered the demarche on UN reform per ref A and provided Allam-mi with a French-language nonpaper. Allam-mi responded that he saw no difficulty on the issue of management reform. Allam-mi said that &every [...]
2006-02-27 17:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KUNR CD
06NDJAMENA300DARFUR/CHAD: JEM'S KHALIL SKEPTICAL ON UN FORCE
[...] (C) Summary: In February 25 conversation with Ambassador Wall, JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim lamented the international community's focus on mounting a UN force in Darfur, when security, he claimed, was better than at any time since the rebellion began, even with intra-Sudan Liberation Movement/A [...]
2006-02-27 17:42:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA301CHADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON DARFUR, LIBYA, UN ARMS
[...] (C) Summary: Chadian Foreign Minister Allam-mi expressed doubt that the ongoing Libyan mediation between Chad and Sudan or the Abuja peace talks would produce much, during a meeting with Ambassador Wall on February 27. He said that Sudanese President Bashir had called a halt to the Chadian [...]
2006-02-28 06:08:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA305CHAD: ROLE OF THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION
[...] (C) Summary: President Idriss Deby's opponents are trying to capitalize on his unpopularity and a heightened level of general discontent to push for a political transition. However, since coming to power, Deby has stacked the political arena against his opponents, cleverly buying off, exploi [...]
2006-02-28 10:24:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA336CHAD: MAVERICK OPPOSITIONIST UNDERLINES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition leader Yorongar, in a call on the Ambassador February 27, said that the opposition would never agree on a single candidate but, if (huge if) fair elections could be assured, Deby would lose to almost anyone. He cited recent rebel activity in the south as a further [...]
2006-03-01 16:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA337CHAD: 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT (PART I)
[...] Summary. Despite severe resource constraints, the Government of Chad is taking steps to address problems of child trafficking which are commensurate with the scope and magnitude of the problem. Government officials are working on each of the elements of the Trafficking in Persons workplan t [...]
2006-03-01 16:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KWMN KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
06NDJAMENA338CHAD: 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT (PART II)
[...] Summary: This cable represents a continuation of Embassy N,Djamena,s responses to reftel regarding Chad,s prosecution and protection efforts. End Summary. - - - - - - - - - - PROSECUTION EFFORTS - - - - - - - - - - 2. (23. A) Trafficking cases are generally prosecuted using charges [...]
2006-03-01 16:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF CD
06NDJAMENA339CHAD: PREPARING FOR THE AI INEVITABLE
[...] Summary. With Avian Influenza (AI) confirmed in neighboring Nigeria and Niger, we believe that it is only a matter of time before AI is found in Chad. We are fortunate that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative in N'djamana is able and engaged. However Chad lacks the [...]
2006-03-01 16:45:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO EAID AMED EAGR CD
06NDJAMENA346CHAD: ARCHBISHOP ON MUSLIM ATTACKS AND ON THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador March 1, Archbishop Ngartery said the anti-Danish-cartoons violent demonstration on February 11 had been an opportunity for Chadian Christians to show the path of peacefulness in not reacting. He said that the only way out of Chad's present po [...]
2006-03-03 11:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA351CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON A COORDINATED APPROACH
[...] (C) Summary: French Ambassador Bercot, saying he had been authorized by Paris to brainstorm with the Ambassador, volunteered a scenario March 3 (uncleared by his government),in which the U.S. and France would support and facilitate a graceful exit for President Deby. Under this scenario, [...]
2006-03-06 16:48:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA352CHAD: UN RESREP DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH MPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Head Amaning told Misoffs March 4 that he had an encouraging meeting with President Deby March 1 in which Deby agreed that opposition participation in the upcoming elections was worth working for. While Deby refused to consider postpon [...]
2006-03-06 16:56:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM UNDP CH
06NDJAMENA357AFRICAN UNION'S NEW UN AMBASSADOR
[...] (U) Mahamat Saleh Annadif, former Director of Cabinet for President Idriss Deby and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, departs next week for New York to assume his post as the African Union's Ambassador to the United Nations. In recent conversations, Annadif described his responsibilities [...]
2006-03-07 14:03:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL UN CD
06NDJAMENA360EASTERN CHAD: ABSENCE OF CHADIAN FORCES
[...] (U) SUMMARY. A security void caused by the repositioning of Chadian police and military forces since December is the principal factor in the increased raiding and looting in the border area south of Adre. First-hand accounts by refugees arriving from these areas and assessments by senior sta [...]
2006-03-07 15:49:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC UN SU
06NDJAMENA365TRANSLATION OF CHAD HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-09 10:56:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA39CHAD:NEW OIL LAW PROMULGATED
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Deby promulgated the amended oil revenue management law on January 11, reportedly after being shown a letter from the World Bank to Citibank requesting Citibank to block transfers to Chad's account. We understand Chad's options to include foregoing oil revenues for the [...]
2006-01-12 12:00:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA400CHAD: OPPOSITION ADAMANT ABOUT BOYCOTTING ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The opposition coalition rejects UNDP's proposal for participating in the May 3 election and intends to call for boycott and, possibly, obstruction of the election. End Summary 2. (SBU) On March 8 Poloff called on Lol Mahamat Choua, leader of the Kanembou ethnicity (nort [...]
2006-03-10 14:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA404CHAD: PRESIDENTIAL LETTER ON BORDER INSECURITY
[...] Embassy received March 13 a letter from President Deby to President Bush on border insecurity and rehatting. Original has been pouched to AF/C for transmittal to the White House. Following is Embassy unofficial translation. 2. Begin Text: Republic of Chad Presidency of the Republic T [...]
2006-03-13 15:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL CD SU
06NDJAMENA409CHAD: VIEW OF OPPOSITION LEADER FROM EAST
[...] (SBU) Summary: The leading oppositionist from the East, Ibni Oumar, describes the drawdown of Chadian security forces in the border area as a net plus, despite the resulting lawlessness. He says that his public call for obstruction of the May 3 election has not yet taken specific form. En [...]
2006-03-14 12:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA413 SUDANESE REFUGEES IN CHAD: PRM MONITORING VISIT
[...] Summary. PRM/AFR Neil Ahlsten (Chad/Darfur Program Officer) travelled to eastern Chad from February 17 to March 2 to visit refugee camps sheltering over 200,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur. Since January, at least 3,500 new arrivals have been registered in Gaga Camp after fleeing from ins [...]
2006-03-14 15:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM ASEC CH UN SU
06NDJAMENA421CHAD: VOICES OF THE RULING PARTY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Secretary General of the ruling party acknowledges rot in the party and an up-hill battle to stimulate popular interest in the coming election. The Governor of Kanem, a former rebel, dismisses the political opposition as ineffective and looks toward an ill-defined "polit [...]
2006-03-15 18:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA425EASTERN CHAD: ICRC UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: ICRC estimates there are approximately 20,000 Chadians displaced along the border south of Adre by raids by Arabic-speaking nomads from both sides of the border. It has no evidence of direct Sudan government involvement but assumes complicity. The principal factor in ICRC's a [...]
2006-03-17 12:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA427CHAD: UNDP CONVENES OPPOSITION AND AMBASSADORS
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNDP resrep invited hand-picked key opposition leaders for an unprecedented discussion March 16, with U.S. and French ambassadors present. CPDC members and Yorongar stated their willingness to engage in national dialogue but emphasized that the blame lay on President Deby fo [...]
2006-03-17 16:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA431CHAD: FRENCH VERSION OF COUP ATTEMPT, DEBY'S
[...] (C) Summary: According to the French Ambassador, the March 14 coup activity involved another member of Deby's extended clan and has made him more paranoid and less amenable to reason. The supposed coup leader, commander of an armored squadron in the presidential protective reserve force, i [...]
2006-03-20 11:41:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA433CHAD: SEBY AGUID AND THE ZAGHAWAS
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Deby's Zaghawa clan is severely divided, a result of his insufficient support for the Darfur rebellion and fears of tribal retribution against his rule, according to the son of the Sultan of Iriba. Recent conversations with him provided insights into the Zaghawa and [...]
2006-03-20 17:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA441CORRECTION: CHAD: ALTERCATION NEAR PALACE SPARKS RUMORS
[...] (U) On March 22, at approximately 10:30 a.m. N'djamena time, a disgruntled deminer apparently threatened the Chadian coordinator of the High Commission for Demining (French acronym HCND) with a pistol. Shots were reported fired. The dispute may have been over salaries. The authorities were [...]
2006-03-23 09:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CASC PTER CD
06NDJAMENA443CHAD: GOVERNMENT TROOPS TAKE ON REBELS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Chadian armed forces, led by President Deby, moved against a Zaghawa rebel group on Chad's eastern border on March 20-21. Both sides claimed victory and it is doubtful that Government of Chad (GOC) action dealt a death blow to the rebels. Deby has bolstered his image -- but hi [...]
2006-03-23 14:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL CD SU
06NDJAMENA453CHAD: LAST-DITCH UN EFFORT ON ELECTIONS FAILS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Midnight March 24, the deadline for candidates to announce themselves for the May 3 presidential election, passed with only five candidates being announced: President Deby and four of his allies. The significant political opposition held fast to its boycott, despite reported [...]
2006-03-27 12:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA460CHAD: DEMARCHE ON CHARLES TAYLOR
[...] (SBU) Emboff met acting MFA Europe-America officer Kama Dounia March 28 to make delivery (orally in French, written in English) of ref demarche urging Chad not to accept Charles Taylor if he attempted to flee to Chad, to cooperate fully with the UN and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and t [...]
2006-03-28 16:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM UNSC CD LI NI KAWC XA XY
06NDJAMENA462CHAD: INTERIOR MINISTER SEES DEBY AS "LEAST BAD,"
[...] (SBU) Summary: Close Deby advisor and fellow Zaghawan Interior Minister Mahamat Ali described Deby as the "least bad" option for Chad, in conversation with Ambassador March 28. Claiming total victory in the March 20 battle against the Chadian Zaghawa rebels, he downplayed anxieties over in [...]
2006-03-29 14:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD SU
06NDJAMENA463CHAD'S TROUBLES ON ELECTION'S EVE AND WHAT WE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Troubles are ahead in the run-up to the presidential elections on May 3. The opposition parties are calling for obstructing them outright as well as for a boycott. Security is under strain, but President Deby is fighting back, with resolute support from the French. The belea [...]
2006-03-29 14:56:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC CD KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL
06NDJAMENA467CHAD: CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS ON POLITICAL WARPATH
[...] (SBU) Summary: The approach of the May 3 election has prompted civil society leaders publicly to ask the international community to pressure the regime to postpone the election. Some have privately lumped the United States with France in supporting the regime. The operative thesis is that [...]
2006-03-30 08:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA482CHAD: DEBY ON DARFUR, DEMOCRACY, AND OIL
[...] (C) Summary: President Deby, in a meeting with Ambassador Wall March 30, said that Islamic fundamentalism and the deteriorating situation in Darfur threatened the stability of the entire Sahel region, and he asked for more forceful action from the international community. He reacted equably [...]
2006-03-31 10:30:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM KDEM CD SU
06NDJAMENA487CHAD: KEBZABO ON OPPOSITION UNITY AND OBSTRUCTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Southern Muslim leader Kebzabo acknowledges that the regime has more to fear from the armed rebels than from the democratic opposition but the latter is relatively unified for the first time and determined to go beyond boycotting the coming election. End Summary. 2. (SBU) [...]
2006-04-03 11:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA492CHAD/SUDAN: FIGHTING, IDPS, AND RECRUITMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: ICRC does not foresee a major displacement of Chadian IDPs away from the border unless fighting is persistent; UNHCR is more worried. UNHCR has long suspected recruitment in the refugee camps and now has clear proof. UNHCR sees Chad as complicit and Darfur rebels as the recrui [...]
2006-04-03 18:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA517CHAD/SUDAN: DADJO BITTERNESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Dadjo, probably the most populous tribe in Eastern Chad, have taken the brunt of Arab cross-border attacks and are, according to one of their leaders, angry toward Arabs on both sides of the border and also at the regime for leaving them unprotected. They could align with [...]
2006-04-08 09:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA520CHAD: ANOTHER PLEA FROM CIVIL SOCIETY
[...] (SBU) Summary: A leading civil society activist, urging a national forum for reconciliation, painted a bleak picture for Chad and the region if the U.S. did not take a strong stand against the May 3 election. The Ambassador was sympathetic but doused expectation of U.S. support for her prop [...]
2006-04-08 11:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA521CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR LOOKS AT POST-ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary: French Ambassador Bercot, in conversation with Ambassador Wall April 7, confirmed that the March 30 battle went badly for the Chadian armed forces, but said that Deby was using oil tax payments to buy helicopters and was building up for an imminent riposte against the rebels led [...]
2006-04-09 09:52:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM KDEM CD FR
06NDJAMENA526CHAD: A WARY CALM IN NDJAMENA
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a sequence of events which appeared to surprise both the Chadian government as well as the French forces in Chad, rebel forces under the loose umbrella group FUC, possibly in conjunction with southern rebel group led by Djibrine Dassert, penetrated Chad's eastern border with [...]
2006-04-12 09:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CD
06NDJAMENA529CHAD: TAIWAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONVENES AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's Foreign Minister told the Ambassador April 9 that he was bringing his Africa ambassadors together in Ndjamena for a strategy session on how to cope with China's ratcheted-up efforts to expand influence in Africa and squeeze Taiwan out. Taiwan's assistance programs to [...]
2006-04-12 18:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CD
06NDJAMENA530CHAD: REBEL CONVOY BLOODIED LESS THAN 100 MILES
[...] (SBU) Summary: A rebel convoy of perhaps 40 vehicles moved to within less than 100 miles southeast of Ndjamena. According to the French Ambassador, Chadian armed forces engaged the convoy and largely destroyed it. A larger military threat may be looming on the eastern border. The French ar [...]
2006-04-12 19:03:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC MOPS CH
06NDJAMENA535CHAD: GOVERNMENT SURVIVES FIGHTING IN NDJAMENA
[...] (U) Rebels reached the northeastern and eastern sections of Ndjamena during the night, and fighting erupted at dawn and lasted throughout the morning April 13, with the Chadian armed forces beating them back. Ndjamena has been quiet ever since, except for sporadic gunfire to the east. Embass [...]
2006-04-13 18:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC MOPS CH
06NDJAMENA536TFCD-01
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-13 18:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS PREL CD
06NDJAMENA539CHAD: MORNING AFTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately one hundred prisoners were displayed on the parade grounds in Ndjamena the morning after the April 13 fighting, amid government nervousness that a number of rebels had fled. The French are widely perceived to have been crucial to beating the rebels. Some senior [...]
2006-04-14 14:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV AESC MOPS CH
06NDJAMENA541CHAD: RUPTURE WITH SUDAN, THREAT ON REFUGEES, OIL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-15 13:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA543CHAD: A $500 MILLION DECISION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Possibly piqued that World Bank President Wolfowitz did not contact him after the World Bank/IMF visit, and evidently needing cash immediately, President Deby has ordered Esso to stop production Tuesday, April 18 at 1 p.m. unless it pays Chad's royalties into the Chadian Treasury [...]
2006-04-16 06:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PREL CD
06NDJAMENA544PRESIDENT DEBY CLARIFIES POSITION ON REFUGEES AND
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-16 06:40:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PREL CD PREF
06NDJAMENA545DASH ACROSS CHAD: FRENCH VERSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The French, according to Ambassador Bercot and his Defense Attache, only became aware two days before the fight in Ndjamena on April 13 that the rebel force was aiming at the relatively undefended city. The city and government were saved, they say, because the rebels stalled [...]
2006-04-16 06:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PREL SU FR CD
06NDJAMENA546CHAD: OPPOSITION QUANDARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition leader Lol Mahamat Choua cast the opposition's quandary in clear focus in conversation with the Ambassador April 14: The democratic opposition could call for massive obstruction to the May 3 election, but to do so would bring brutal repression. The democratic oppos [...]
2006-04-16 16:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA547CHAD: REFUGEES, RECRUITMENT, IDPS, PRISONERS, AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: ICRC accounts for 250 prisoners (of whom some are Sudanese) and 250 war-wounded from the fighting April 13. ICRC has withdrawn staff from the eastern border for the time being but affirms a continued movement of IDPs to Goz Beida. UNHCR has cut its international staff in the [...]
2006-04-16 16:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA551CHAD: FOREIGN MINISTER CLARIFICATION ON REFUGEES
[...] (SBU) In a meeting April 17 with the Ambassador principally addressing political blockage in Chad (septel),Foreign Minister Ahmad Allam-mi provided clarification on Chad's announcement April 15 (reftel) that the international community had until the end of June to find a solution to the confl [...]
2006-04-17 18:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM CD SU
06NDJAMENA555FOREIGN MINISTER EMPHASIZES CHAD'S FRAGILITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Allam-mi and Ambassador agreed to disagree April 17 on the urgency of political dialogue, Allam-mi saying the absolute priority was going forward with the May 3 election to ensure preservation of the outward form of rule of law at a time of external aggression [...]
2006-04-18 15:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA57PROMOTING A PEACEFUL TRANSITION IN CHAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As we define a strategy for advancing our growing interests in Chad, it is important that we work to convince President Deby to arrange for a peaceful handover of power. Our interests would be damaged by the spread of violent civil unrest, a prospect that is becoming dangerousl [...]
2006-01-18 07:09:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALEFIN EPET KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
06NDJAMENA576CHAD: ANXIETIES OVER REFUGEE PROTECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: UN Resrep agrees with the fears of the Chadian government it will be unable adequately to protect refugees and IDPs if, as he thinks likely, there are increased attacks over the next month before the rainy season. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Kingsley Amaning, Resident Coordinat [...]
2006-04-20 09:03:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA577CHAD: ANXIETIES OVER REFUGEE PROTECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: UN Resrep agrees with the fears of the Chadian government it will be unable adequately to protect refugees and IDPs if, as he thinks likely, there are increased attacks over the next month before the rainy season. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Kingsley Amaning, Resident Coordinat [...]
2006-04-20 13:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA579CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY THANKS U.S. FOR SUPPORT
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador Wall on April 20, President Deby thanked the United States for condemning Sudan's role in the recent attacks on Chad. He shared information on what he feared would be a new attack in the East in the coming days, and stated that Sudan was also arming Ce [...]
2006-04-20 16:12:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV EPET ENRG CD
06NDJAMENA586CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR SEES DAS YAMAMOTO
[...] (C) Summary: French Ambassador Bercot repeated his view April 20 that the only way forward was to get Deby, before the May 3 election, t announce publicly the naming of an opposition government. He saw DAS Yamamoto's visit April 24-25 as key step in moving this idea forward. He acknowledged [...]
2006-04-21 20:45:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD FR SU
06NDJAMENA587CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR SEES DAS YAMAMOTO
[...] (C) Summary: French Ambassador Bercot repeated his view April 20 that the only way forward was to get Deby, before the May 3 election, t announce publicly the naming of an opposition government. He saw DAS Yamamoto's visit April 24-25 as key step in moving this idea forward. He acknowledged [...]
2006-04-21 20:45:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD FR SU
06NDJAMENA589CHAD: SOUTHERN OPPOSITIONIST INSISTS ON ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Leading Southern oppositionist Kamougue said April 21 that the political opposition would not be again deceived into taking a post in a Deby government, unless the election were delayed, a national conference convened, and Deby became a titular transitional president alongside [...]
2006-04-23 08:03:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA590CHAD: REFUGEE PROTECTION AND IDP PULL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ideas for immediate refugee protection are few and far between, according to those working the issue in Ndjamena. UNHCR will explore devoting more resources to paying and equipping gendarmes. The AU could be pressed to send more AMIS missions across the border. Chadian Forei [...]
2006-04-23 08:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA591DARFUR REBEL LEADER COMFORTABLY HOUSED IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim received the Ambassador April 22 at his temporary quarters in Ndjamena (home belonging to President Deby's half-brother) and expressed unhappiness at the negotiations in Abuja and, in particular, the close relationship between the Americans a [...]
2006-04-23 17:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CD SU
06NDJAMENA592CHAD'S FOREIGN MINISTER DEFENDS MAY 3 ELECTIONS,
[...] (C) Summary. Better to have a president chosen in flawed elections than to risk the anarchy that a delay in elections could provoke, according to Chad's Foreign Minister. In other comments in his meeting with the Ambassador April 21, he blamed the opposition for the breakdown in dialogue; [...]
2006-04-24 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
06NDJAMENA599CHAD: DAS YAMAMOTO MEETING WITH FRENCH AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) Summary: In meeting with French Ambassador Bercot April 25, DAS Yamamoto explained that he had urged President Deby to delay the May 3 election and begin a dialogue with the opposition. Bercot regretted this approach. He put little store in political dialogue. He preferred to ask Deby [...]
2006-04-25 17:43:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD SU FR
06NDJAMENA604DAS YAMAMOTO VISIT TO CHAD APRIL 24-25
[...] (C) Summary: During his April 24-25 visit to Chad, DAS Yamamoto conveyed to President Deby a message from the Secretary calling for postponement of the May 3 election and SIPDIS initiation of constructive political dialogue. Deby refused to postpone the election, citing a constitutional v [...]
2006-04-26 17:16:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD SU
06NDJAMENA608CAR: BOZIZE WILL MEET CAR REBELS, ARCHBISHOP SAYS
[...] (U) The following cable was drafted by U.S. Embassy Bangui. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Archbishop of Bangui told Poloff on April 25 that the CAR rebel group Union of Republican Forces (UFR) and President Bozize recently agreed to meet and engage in a dialogue. Some issues remain, but the Archbish [...]
2006-04-28 14:51:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CT
06NDJAMENA611ESSO PLEASED WITH CHAD-WORLD BANK DECISION, BUT NOT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Esso is pleased with the interim agreement reached between the World Bank and the GOC, and received formal word from the Government that it was rescinding its request for Esso to halt production. Nevertheless, it admits that the possibility of another threat from the GOC to hal [...]
2006-04-30 13:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ENRG EPET ECON EINV CD
06NDJAMENA612CHAD: ELECTION PREPARATIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Chadian presidential election campaign ends midnight on May 1, with elections scheduled for May 3. From the field of 5 original candidates it appears that only four remain. Opposition groups continue to call for a "ville morte" (dead city) on May 3 and for citizens to boycot [...]
2006-04-30 13:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KDEM PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA618SLM EXCLUDED FROM ABUJA WARN OF CIVIL WAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As peace negotiations enter an extra 48-hour inning in Abuja, three Chad-based Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) representatives told the Ambassador during a May 1 meeting that their delegation had been effectively excluded from the Darfur peace talks in Abuja by the AU, which inst [...]
2006-05-01 17:52:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV SU
06NDJAMENA643PRESIDENT DEBY'S ELECTION: NOW WHAT?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Few bothered to vote, no opposition leader of any stature was a candidate, and the voter registration lists were virtually useless, but never mind. Now that these peaceful, but flawed elections held on May 3 are behind him, President Deby will claim a popular mandate for holdi [...]
2006-05-04 17:12:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
06NDJAMENA646CHAD-BASED SLM LEADERS URGED TO SUPPORT PEACE
[...] (SBU) In a meeting May 5 with Chad-based SLM leaders Dr. Sharif Hariri and Adam Shogar, the Ambassador urged them to help keep the peace process on track -- and at a minimum, not undermine it. Shogar and Hariri responded that they had been sidelined by the African Union, but were not obstruct [...]
2006-05-05 14:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SU
06NDJAMENA651CHAD: REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO PROCEED TO POST
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-07 09:16:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA CD
06NDJAMENA653CHAD: REQUEST FOR AUTHORIZATION TO PROCEED TO POST
[...] Post requests permission for DATT Tim Mitchell and PAO Art Bell to return to post after one-day visit to constituent post Bangui. Planned travel is May 12-13. 2. Post requests retroactive permission for Department of Defense employee Tod Dolgoff to proceed to post. Mr. Dolgoff is implem [...]
2006-05-07 15:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA CD
06NDJAMENA671CHAD:REQUEST FOR AUTHORIZATION TO PROCEED TO POST
[...] Post requests permission for Corporal Ivan Alfonzo, member of the Marine Security Guard (MSG) Battalion, to proceed to post o/a May 20 for a TDY assignment of approximately two months. Corporal Ivan Alfonzo will assist post cover MSG vacancies during scheduled leave. 2. Post also request [...]
2006-05-12 13:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA CD
06NDJAMENA672CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY RESPONSE TO U.S. DEMARCHE
[...] The Director of President Deby's Civil Cabinet has sent the following written response to Ambassador Wall concerning reftel B demarche on ending support to Sudanese rebels. 2. Begin text: May 11 Excellence, Mr. Ambassador, I have the honor to bring to your attention that His Excel [...]
2006-05-12 15:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PINS SOCI SU CD
06NDJAMENA678UN'S JAN EGELAND COMES TO EASTERN CHAD
[...] (U) SUMMARY: During a visit to eastern Chad May 11, UN Humanitarian Coordinator Jan Egeland visited a makeshift camp for as many as 13,000 displaced Chadians driven from their villages on the border with Sudan by attacks by jandjaweed militias. Egeland urged local officials to assure securi [...]
2006-05-15 15:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIRF KPAO OIIP PGOV PHUM PREF PREL CD
06NDJAMENA684CHAD: ELECTION RESULTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representing what most observers considered a formality, the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) announced last night that President Idriss Deby Itno was the projected winner of the May 3 presidential election. According to the preliminary results, which must be cer [...]
2006-05-15 16:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD KDEM PGOV PHUM PREF
06NDJAMENA699HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CHADIAN PARTICIPANTS IN
[...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals nominated for the Special Operations Forces conference in Stuttgart from May 21-25 as of this date. --Abdallah Idriss Amir, DPOB 1 January 1966, [...]
2006-05-17 07:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD
06NDJAMENA700CHAD: SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO REVIEW PROCEEDINGS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-17 17:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KAWC PINR PREL CD
06NDJAMENA702CHAD: IMF/WORLD BANK TEAM ADMITS THAT THEY FACE A
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As part of the recent agreement between the World Bank and GOC, IMF and World Bank mission officials have arrived in Chad to assist the GOC to pass and implement the 2006 Budget and push reform efforts of the country's public finance system. Mission officials also hope to expl [...]
2006-05-18 05:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA704CHAD'S GRAND IMAM WELCOMES
[...] (U) Summary. The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Chad's Grand Imam, Sheikh Hassan Hissein Abakar, the spiritual leader of Chadian Muslims. The Grand Imam was seriously injured last week in a dispute outside his office, and the visit provided an opportunity to wish him a speedy recovery. [...]
2006-05-18 12:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OIIP KPAO KIRF PREL PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA705CHAD'S ARCHBISHOP GIVES STARK
[...] (SBU) Summary: There is no hope for a dialogue on Chad's political future as long as President Deby remains in power, according to Chad's influential Archbishop. In a meeting with the Ambassador on May 17, the religious expressed his view that, although President Deby had more material wit [...]
2006-05-18 14:45:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM CD ASEC
06NDJAMENA706DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT UPDATE: N'DJAMENA ACTIVITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) faction leader Minni Minnawi was warmly welcomed in N'Djamena, where he is consulting with the Chadian Government, SLM followers in Chad, non-governmental organizations, and the media. Minni described his meetings with President Idriss Deby as p [...]
2006-05-18 15:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA734CHAD: UNPREPARED FOR FINANCIAL WINDFALL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Chad (GOC) has complied with its commitments to date under the April 26 accord between the GOC and the World Bank, according to team leaders for the World Bank and IMF. The next steps are to develop a revised 2006 budget that conforms to the accord, and final [...]
2006-05-22 09:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA737CHAD: OPPOSITION MEMBERS HOPE U.S. WILL PLAY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During recent meetings two opposition leaders of the CPDC coalition reiterated that the May 3 presidential election was a farce and said it was "too late" to negotiate with President Idriss Deby Itno, at least without the significant involvement of and pressure from the interna [...]
2006-05-23 06:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EPET CD
06NDJAMENA745N'DJAMENA EAC
[...] (U) U.S. Embassy N'djamena convened an EAC on May 24. The EAC discussed the currently security environment in N'djamena following the May 3 Chadian Presidential elections. The EAC agreed that the situation continued to be stable and reiterated recommendation (reftel) to lift Authorized Depar [...]
2006-05-24 15:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV CASC CD
06NDJAMENA747EQUIVOCAL MESSAGES ON DARFUR PEACE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Key Darfur interlocutors in N'djamena explained their reasons for dissatisfaction with the recently signed Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) in meetings with Ambassador Wall May 24 and 25. JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim poured venom on SLM leader Minni Minawi, whom he described as "dead [...]
2006-05-25 13:45:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SU CD
06NDJAMENA748IMPLEMENTING THE DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT: TROUBLES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Differing reports are coming in about a clash between SLM forces near Birzamma in Sudan across the frontier from Chadian border town of Bahai. SLM leader Minni Minawi accused opponents of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) of initiating the attack with some Chadian supporters [...]
2006-05-25 13:49:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL SU CD
06NDJAMENA755DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT: TOUGH SELL IN REFUGEE CAMPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese refugees say they will support the Darfur Peace Agreement if Sudan Liberation Movement faction leader Abdelwahid Nur signs and their need for individual compensation are adequately met. From May 23 to 27, P/E officer traveled to six of twelve refugee camps to explain [...]
2006-05-30 06:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA768CHAD: WORLD BANK, IMF ASSERT PROGRESS MADE, BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the conclusion of their visit, the joint IMF-World Bank stated that Chad's rectified 2006 budget is on its way to being finalized, and steps are being taken to advance plans to assist the country's financial system. Nevertheless, questions remain over specific spending acti [...]
2006-05-31 11:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA771 CHAD: FINAL ELECTION RESULTS -- DEBY WINS, BY
[...] (SBU) The Chadian Constitutional Council announced 28 May the official results of the 3 May presidential elections. The Council declared President Idriss Deby Itno the winner in the first round, with 64.67 percent of the votes cast, from a voter turnout of 53.8 percent of the estimated 5.7 mil [...]
2006-05-31 16:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA772DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT: CHADIAN OFFICIALS DENY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto raised the reports of Chadian support for groups undermining the Darfur Peace Agreement with President Idriss Deby Itno on May 30 and with his close advisor, Minister of Territorial Administration General Mahamat Ali Abdullah on May 29. De [...]
2006-06-01 09:07:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA775CHAD: FRANCE CITES CHADIAN INVOLVEMENT IN
[...] (C) Summary. In a meeting May 29, French Ambassador Jean-Pierre Bercot made a pitch to Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Yamamoto for USG efforts in the UN Security Council for sanctions against individual Chadian political and armed opposition leaders whom he called directly engaged in activit [...]
2006-06-01 14:13:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA778CHAD: PRESIDENT, OPPOSITION ACKNOWLEDGE NEED FOR
[...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto discussed with Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno on 30 May the pressing need for the creation of a space for political dialogue between Deby and Chad's political opposition. Opposition politicians were fulsome in their description of the barriers and [...]
2006-06-02 10:17:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA779CHAD: FRANCE ON POST-ELECTION STRATEGY
[...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with Ambassador Wall, French Ambassador Bercot outlined the Paris-blessed strategy for expanding a political dialogue and establishing the foundations for better economic and political governance in Chad after elections. He cautioned that the regime's ongoing effort [...]
2006-06-02 10:37:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA787CHAD: WISE MEN'S CHAIR MALLOUM SEEKS GUIDANCE
[...] (C) The Chair of President Deby's Committee of Wise Men on political dialogue does not see any indication from the President or his opposition of the political will necessary for compromise and reconciliation. He hopes that international pressure will bring Deby to understand the need for rea [...]
2006-06-05 14:11:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA788CHAD: UNDP ON POST-ELECTION "FRAMEWORK"
[...] (SBU) Summary. United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Resident Coordinator Amaning sees a two-month window for the government and the opposition to agree to a framework for shared supervision of political and economic reforms. He was concerned that the government might succeed at co-opting [...]
2006-06-05 14:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNDP CD
06NDJAMENA789CHAD: CONTINUED INDICATIONS OF INSECURITY IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PRM DAS Fitzgerald visited Sudanese refugee camps in Eastern Chad June 1-2. Recruitment appears to be taking place in Oure Cassoni and Mile camps, and armed elements are in extremely close proximity to the Oure Cassoni camp. Humanitarian workers continue to face the threat of [...]
2006-06-05 15:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PHUM CASC PGOV
06NDJAMENA801CHAD: BRINGING PEACE CORPS BACK
[...] (SBU) Peace Corps is to my mind the single most effective U.S. Government-funded program in Chad. Now that the Department of State has authorized the lifting of Authorized Departure status (reftel),Peace Corps's suspension should be reconsidered as well. Peace Corps volunteers are already [...]
2006-06-06 13:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA815U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN -- DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points June 7 to Chad's Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Integreation, Ahmad Allam-mi. Ambassador stressed the need for action, through the issuance of a public statement of support, as well as the use of direct contact with Iranian officials to encourage [...]
2006-06-08 13:23:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR CD
06NDJAMENA820AMBASSADOR'S FY 2006 DISASTER RE-DECLARATION OF A
[...] Disaster Determination. The Republic of Chad continues to suffer from an ongoing disaster that warrants U.S. Government assistance to meet the emergency requirements of conflict-affected populations in the east of the country. This disaster exceeds the host country's ability to provide an ade [...]
2006-06-09 10:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SOCI CD
06NDJAMENA821CHAD: GOC UNDERSTANDS TIP TIER TWO AND WATCH LIST
[...] (SBU) Ambassador and POL/ECON Officer on June 6 informed GOC Ministers of Justice, and of Family and Social Action of the publication of the 2006 Trafficking in Persons report, and of Chad's Tier Two Watch List ranking. Ambassador again raised the issue on June 7 with Minister of Foreign Affai [...]
2006-06-09 10:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PGOV PREL SMIG KDEM CD KCRS PHUM
06NDJAMENA822CHAD TO CONSIDER SUPPORT FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Post delivered June 9 reftel demarche diplomatic note regarding the candidature of Prof. Ruth Wedgwood for re-election to the UNHRC to Chad MFA North America Desk Officer Adoum Mahamat Yahya. Pol/Econ Officer stressed Prof. Wedgwood's qualifications, and provided her CV with the diplomatic no [...]
2006-06-09 12:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC CD
06NDJAMENA826CHAD: POLITICAL OPPOSTION PROPOSES UNITY GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Chad's political opposition's ideas for a non-exclusive political dialogue would emasculate President Deby inside a multi-headed executive structure as part of a "Government of Broad Union", created to implement a "National Pact for Peace, Unity and Democracy" aimed at a root-and-branch re [...]
2006-06-12 09:55:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA828CHAD: PRESIDENT'S CALL FOR "DIALOGUE" REJECTED
[...] (SBU) The Chadian President has instructed his Council of Ministers to take the initiative for a "Chado-Chadian, internal political dialogue" to allow Chadians -- not foreigners -- to take control of the political development of the country. The political opposition publicly rejected any prop [...]
2006-06-12 10:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA831PRESIDENT DEBY TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL: STOP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Deby made an impassioned plea for UN intervention in Darfur and along Chad's border in a meeting with members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) June 10. He accused Sudan of aggression against Chad and warned that Chad's collapse would spread chaos in the [...]
2006-06-12 15:31:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL CD SU
06NDJAMENA847CHAD: POLITICAL OPPOSTION TO TAKE FRANCE TO TASK
[...] (C) Chad's political opposition intends to tell the visiting French Minister-Delegate for Cooperation that she should see President Deby's initiative for political dialogue as they see it: a red herring designed to tell the international community what it wants to hear. That said, the opposit [...]
2006-06-16 11:31:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA853CHAD/DRFUR: AU-UN JOINT ASSESSMENT MISSION BRIEFS
[...] (C) UN U/S General for Peacekeeping Operations reported in N'Djamena that expectations of the impact of a UN PKO in Darfur are unrealistic on both sides of the Chad/Sudan border. He called the logistical challenge of standing up the force "a nightmare", and cautioned that it would be at least [...]
2006-06-19 16:47:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA862CHAD/DARFUR: FRENCH AMBASSADOR SETS LIMITS ON
[...] (SBU) France's Ambassador to Chad told UN U/S General for Peacekeeping Operations that there should be no illusions about using France's troops in Chad as an arm of an eventual PKO in Darfur. He stressed the need for international protection of the refugees and IDPs in Chad, made clear France [...]
2006-06-20 15:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA864CHAD: THE ROAD AHEAD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Deby's victories this spring provide him an opening for reaching out to his opponents. While their starting positions appear unbridgeable, and neither side has manifested the political will for compromise, at least Deby is making gestures in the right direction and [...]
2006-06-20 15:43:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CH
06NDJAMENA867CHAD: MULTI-DONOR MISSION ON PUBLIC FINANCE AND
[...] (SBU) The second Multi-Donor Mission to Chad since April opened on June 21. A week of meetings with the GOC will seek to settle on the framework of a "global agreement" on the issues of public finance and oil revenue management. This would replace the "interim agreement" the GOS and World Ban [...]
2006-06-22 15:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID EPET PGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA87CHAD AND JUSTICE AND EQUALITY MOVEMENT MAKE UP
[...] (C) Summary: During a two-week stay in N'Djamena, the President of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Dr. Khalil Ibrahim, shared his thoughts on the normalization of relations between Chad and the JEM, the Chadian-Sudanese conflict, prospects for peace at the negotiating table in Abuja [...]
2006-01-24 12:03:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA880CHAD OIL CONSORTIUM FEELING PRESSURE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A series of Government of Chad (GOC)-instigated pressures on the Exxon/Mobil-led oil consortium in Chad has led Esso management to conclude that the GOC is once again desperate for cash. Esso feels that they will be able sort out a dispute with the government over alleged unp [...]
2006-06-27 13:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET EFIN ENRG PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA882CHAD: CREDIBLE OIL REVENUE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN
[...] (C) Senior Chadian government officials have succeeded in blocking any discussion of capturing all or some indirect oil revenues generated by taxes and customs fees into an "improved" revenue management scheme for poverty reduction. They see no need to change the current distribution of funds [...]
2006-06-27 14:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EAID EPET KDEM PREL PGOV KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA893CHAD: DOES THE GOVERNMENT WANT THE WORLD BANK OUT
[...] (SBU) Tough talk in the Multi-Donor Mission's oil revenue management working group seems to indicate a Government of Chad desire to cut the World Bank out of the oil sector all together. If the GOC shows continued inflexibility over the World Bank's status as a senior creditor, it could be an [...]
2006-06-29 08:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID EPET PREL PGOV KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA894CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR BLAMES POLITICAL
[...] (C) The French Ambassador to Chad believes that none of the actors in Chad's political-military conflicts are willing to use dialogue to reach a peaceful solution to the country's succession problem. Although he believes that the international community must keep up the pressure on all partie [...]
2006-06-29 08:44:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA906CHAD/DARFUR: NEW PATTERNS IN EASTERN CHAD'S
[...] (SBU) Human rights groups and international NGOs point to an apparent shift toward ethnically or racially motivated attacks in eastern Chad in the area bordering Darfur. The period of September 2005 through May 2006 saw numerous such attacks; the month of June has been relatively quiet. Alleg [...]
2006-07-03 14:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA907POLITICAL DIALOGUE IN CHAD: SEARCHING FOR THE
[...] (SBU) Summary. A United Nations Development Program-hosted meeting to discuss the current state of the Chadian political dialogue provided little to chew on. The French Ambassador reiterated his concern that the opposition continued to look to the international community for direction. He s [...]
2006-07-04 10:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA908CHAD: OIL REVENUE MANAGEMENT AND THE PRICE OF
[...] (SBU) The ten-day intensive talks between a Multi-Donor Mission and the Government of Chad (GOC) ended June 29. A good start was made on revisions to Chad's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP),and on defining urgent actions needed to improve public finance management. The World Bank's m [...]
2006-07-04 11:39:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID EPET PGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA929CHAD: MARAUDING YOUTH THREATEN HUMANITARIAN WORKERS
[...] (SBU) A tense day of stand-off between local youths ostensibly demonstrating for employment, and humanitarian NGOs working in the Sudanese refugee camps outside the eastern Chadian town of Bahai ended July 7 with one locally engaged staff member of the International Rescue Committee injured. [...]
2006-07-10 16:31:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS ASEC PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA935 CHAD: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ATA TRAINING
[...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights as of this date by the following individuals nominated for "ATA-5933 Chad: Integrating Counterterrorism Strategies at the National level" training. 2. For training in ATA-593 [...]
2006-07-11 17:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ASEC MASS MOPS PREL PINR PINS CD
06NDJAMENA95CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON WORLD BANK AND DEBY
[...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging tour d'horizon, the French Ambassador in Chad defended President Deby as the only option for Chad, and affirmed that France would defend Chad's territorial integrity. France, according to Ambassador Bercot, is working to prevent Chad from becoming a failed sta [...]
2006-01-26 06:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL CD
06NDJAMENA950CHAD/DARFUR: FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEFS ON KHARTOUM
[...] (SBU) Chad's Foreign Minister says he proposed to Khartoum a kind of reciprocal withdrawal of sanctuary for armed groups. Sudan suggested joint Chad/Sudan patrols of the common border. Neither side gave formal responses to the other's proposals. Chad awaits a follow-on mission from Khartoum [...]
2006-07-13 16:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA968CHAD/DARFUR: NMRD CLAIMS CHADIAN PRESSURE TO JOIN
[...] (C) The Darfur rebel group National Movement for Reform and Development (NMRD) has indicated a desire to revisit its objections to the DPA, and implied a readiness to support DPA implementation. The group's General Secretary has stated that the group must be recognized as a valid interlocutor [...]
2006-07-19 14:23:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS PHUM CD SU
06NDJAMENA981CHAD: WORLD BANK PRESIDENT WOLFOWITZ'S VISIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a lightning three hour visit to N'djamena on July 20, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz agreed that the recent Memorandum of Understanding between the World Bank and the GOC on the country's management of its oil revenues is a positive first step in reaching an overall ag [...]
2006-07-24 13:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA986CHAD/SUDAN: JEM NEGOTIATOR CALLS FOR RETHINKING OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: New political and military realities on the ground in Darfur will make the implementation of the Darfur Peace Accords impossible, and the International Community must consider changing the structure of the current agreement, according the Justice and Equality Movement's chief neg [...]
2006-07-24 16:27:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA987CHAD/SUDAN: JEM NEGOTIATOR CALLS FOR RETHINKING OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: New political and military realities on the ground in Darfur will make the implementation of the Darfur Peace Accords impossible, and the International Community must consider changing the structure of the current agreement, according the Justice and Equality Movement's chief neg [...]
2006-07-24 16:57:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA989CHAD'S POLITICAL DIALOGUE DEADLOCK
[...] (C) Post's monitoring of Chad's political pulse since the May 3 Presidential poll indicates, with each passing week, less and less life in any of the ideas so far proposed to bring a political solution to Chad's institutional crises. The two major blocks in the face-off, roughly centered on Pr [...]
2006-07-25 10:12:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KCRS CD
06NDJAMENA994 "THE CHADIAN ILLNESS:" OPPOSITION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Armed opposition groups must be brought to the table if a national dialogue is to have any hope of success and the "Chadian illness" of armed rebellion is to be cured, former Chadian Prime Minister Alengue told us July 20. The respected opposition leader stressed that it is [...]
2006-07-26 10:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM CD ASEC
07NDJAMENA101CHAD: NEW CLASHES ON SUDAN/CHAD BORDER
[...] (U) In what was apparently a combined operation, UFDD (Union of Forces for Democracy and Development),RAFD (African Assembly of Democratic Forces) and RNDP (National Assembly for Democracy and Progress) rebels attacked Adre in the early hours of February 1. Humanitarian aid workers in the ar [...]
2007-02-01 17:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PREF PREL CD
07NDJAMENA104CHAD: Inter-ethnic Fighting in Guereda
[...] (SBU) While Humanitarian workers report that fighting in around Adre subsided last night after some 200 houses in different villages were burned and 120 civilian and combatant wounded hospitalized, the situation around Guereda remains tense. Some 30 rebels are reported dead in fighting betwe [...]
2007-02-02 14:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL CD
07NDJAMENA119FOLLOW-UP MEETING WITH SLM/A REBEL LEADERS
[...] (C) Summary: Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM/A) Chairman Ahmed Abdelshafi met with the Ambassador for the first time since the meeting of Special Envoy (SE) Natsios with rebel leaders in Abeche on January 19 (Ref A). Abdelshafi continues to reject the Darfur Peace Agreement as a basis for f [...]
2007-02-07 12:45:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF CD SU SCRS
07NDJAMENA121PRESIDENT DEBY BACKTRACKING ON UN FORCE IN EASTERN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-07 18:46:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD KPKO PREF PREL SU SCRSERD
07NDJAMENA122PRESIDENT DEBY BACKTRACKING ON UN FORCE IN EASTERN
[...] (C) UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Hedi Annabi told the Ambassador in meetings February 5 and 6 that President Deby seems to have backtracked on deployment of a UN military peacekeeping force to eastern Chad. Instead, Deby's preference remains a civilian police (ci [...]
2007-02-07 20:31:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL KPKO CD SU SCRS
07NDJAMENA129ADDITIONAL FOLLOW-UP MEETING WITH NRF/JEM
[...] (C) Summary. The NRF has high ambitions for a commanders conference/political meeting scheduled for Abeche starting 12 February. However, there remain issues of who will attend and how much consensus they will reach. Meanwhile, the NRF's renunciation of regime change (as recommended by Speci [...]
2007-02-09 12:58:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PREF CD SU CRS
07NDJAMENA131CHAD: Iranian Foreign Minister Meets President
[...] (U) According to a Chadian presidential webpage article, Iranian Foreign Minister Mountasher Mountaki met with President Deby earlier this week (February 4). Webpage photos show the Iranian foreign minister with President Deby at the Zakouma Game Preserve in southeastern Chad. The Iranian fo [...]
2007-02-09 23:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EPET IR CD
07NDJAMENA142CHAD'S OURE CASSONI REFUGEE CAMP POSES UNIQUE RISKS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Oure Cassoni refugee Camp, close to the Sudan border, continues to be highly politicized. Both the camp and the host community of Bahai lack security (reftels). The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is active in trying to repatriate Sudanese soldiers hospitaliz [...]
2007-02-14 14:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PREL KCRS CD SU
07NDJAMENA145CHAD: European Commisssion support for
[...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission (EC) seeks to develop a program to support the capacity of Chadian political parties to engage in a national political dialogue in the near term, and to be able to compete responsibly in an open democratic process over the longer term. Chad's current pol [...]
2007-02-15 10:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PGOV KDEM CD
07NDJAMENA149CHAD'S GRAND IMAM REQUESTS HELP TO INVESTIGATE
[...] (C) Post calls attention to the following request from Chad's Grand Imam, Sheikh Hissein Hassan Abakar, conveyed in a February 7 meeting with the Ambassador (reftel). In the meeting, Abakar requested assistance from Post and the USG to investigate and interdict possible terrorist and extremis [...]
2007-02-15 16:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALKTFN CD PGOV PREL
07NDJAMENA160CHAD: PUBLIC SERVANTS WANT THEIR SHARE OF OIL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Public expectations have ballooned with the widespread anticipation of a huge oil tax "windfall" and the president of Chad's largest labor federation has warned that failure to increase public sector wages by at least 50 percent will lead to a general strike that could exceed t [...]
2007-02-22 16:22:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ELAB PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA163CHAD INTERETHNIC CONFLICT: "A POLITICAL CRISIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Leading "Chad watcher" Roland Marchal emphasized that resolving the Darfur crisis required pressure on President Deby - pressure on Khartoum was not enough. President Deby's calculated pitting of ethnic group against ethnic group in eastern Chad (for the sake of regime survival [...]
2007-02-23 08:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF CD SU
07NDJAMENA167EXPLAINING UN FORCE TO PRESIDENT DEBY:FRENCH ADVICE
[...] (C) Summary. Chad's unqualified support for UN operation in eastern Chad should not be assumed, according to French Ambassador Foucher. In a meeting with the Ambassador, Foucher emphasized that the UN peacekeeping operation needed to be carefully explained to President Deby as humanitarian i [...]
2007-02-26 09:11:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL UNSC SU CD
07NDJAMENA17 CHAD: CENSORSHIP UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Nearly one month after declaring a state of emergency throughout the country, the Government of Chad continues to talk a tough line vis--vis the national press. The state of emergency, under which the GOC has implemented a hard line censorship policy, has been extended for s [...]
2007-01-09 06:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPAO PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA171EXPLAINING UN FORCE TO PRESIDENT DEBY:FRENCH ADVICE
[...] (C) Summary. Chad's unqualified support for UN operation in eastern Chad should not be assumed, according to French Ambassador Foucher. In a meeting with the Ambassador, Foucher emphasized that the UN peacekeeping operation needed to be carefully explained to President Deby as humanitarian i [...]
2007-02-26 14:17:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL UNSC SU CD
07NDJAMENA174CHAD: Ministry for Morality Anti-fraud Unit
[...] (U) Summary: Based on an investigation of malfeasance in the grading of entrance examinations and selection procedures for admission to Chad's teacher colleges, the anti-fraud unit of the Ministry for Morality identified 11 senior Ministry of Education and other officials for prosecution and/ [...]
2007-02-27 11:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PHUM PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA175DARFUR/ABECHE CONFERENCES YET TO MATERIALIZE, BUT
[...] (C). Summary. Although the proposed rebel conferences in Darfur and Abeche still have not occurred, a number of rebel leaders did attend the Tripoli conference last week. According to representatives of the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) in Ndjamena, a unified SLM must still be achieved [...]
2007-02-27 12:40:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL LY CD SU SCRS
07NDJAMENA176CHAD'S VIEWS ON A UN BORDER FORCE: TALK WITH US
[...] (SBU) Chad is open to discussions on a UN peacekeeping force on its border with Sudan, but believes its mandate should be focused on protecting civilian populations, Chad's Foreign Minister Allam-mi told the Ambassador February 27. Speaking on his cell phone in Paris en route to Moscow and T [...]
2007-02-27 15:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC CD
07NDJAMENA178CHAD'S OIL REVENUE OVERSIGHT BODY OVERSHADOWED BY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chad's oil revenue management body (College de Control Pour le Surveillance de Resources Petroliere - CCSRP) is expected to oversee some USD 204 million in oil royalties and fees in 2007. According to CCSRP President Abdoulaye Lamana, half of this amount will go for government [...]
2007-02-27 16:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET CD
07NDJAMENA18DEBY PEACE ACCORD WITH FUC'S NOUR -- ONE LESS
[...] (C) Summary: The withdrawal of Sudanese government support and an alleged payment of $5.5 million from Libyan President Moammar Gadaffi may have combined to induce Chadian rebel leader Mahamat Nour to sign a peace agreement with the Deby government in Tripoli December 24. The significance of [...]
2007-01-09 15:15:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD MOPS PGOV PREL
07NDJAMENA181CHAD: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING
[...] A search of embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights as of this date by the following individuals nominated for training with Special Operations Forces in May and June 2007. INK name check pending. 2. Unit: Chadian Second Ant [...]
2007-02-28 09:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC MASS PHUM PINR PREL CD
07NDJAMENA189CHAD'S POSITION ON A UN BORDER FORCE HARDENING
[...] (U) On February 28 the Ambassador was called to the Foreign Ministry to receive a statement from Acting Foreign Minister Djidda Moussa Outman clarifying Chad's reservations on proposals by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UNDPKO) to the UN Security Council (UNSC) for a peacekeepi [...]
2007-02-28 15:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC CD
07NDJAMENA191N'DJAMENA SEEKS APPROVAL FOR REMOTE TDY RESIDENCE
[...] (SBU) On February 18, 2007 the US Embassy EAC convened at 0915 to discuss the need to establish a remote residence in the Eastern Chadian city of Abeche. The purpose of this residence would be to provide a safe environment for Embassy personnel who are visiting or on TDY to the region. Current [...]
2007-03-01 09:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC
07NDJAMENA195CHAD: PRIME MINISTER YOADIMNADJI DIES; KASSIRE
[...] (SBU) President Deby selected Dr. Nouradine Delwa Kassire Koumakoye to replace Prime Minister Yoadimnadji who died in Paris on February 24. Kassire previously served as Prime Minister from 1993-1995. Kassire is a southern Muslim with ties to some of Chad,s northern ethnic groups. --------- [...]
2007-03-01 15:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CD
07NDJAMENA196CHAD: 2007 BUDGET IN DANGER OF SLIPPING
[...] (SBU) Summary: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Commission (EC) are concerned about the GOC's political will and capacity to meet agreed 2007 budget targets. Wage pressures, corruption and mounting military and off-budget spending -- combined with unrealistic assumptions of [...]
2007-03-02 11:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ELAB PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA198CHAD OIL PROJECT: 6 YEARS AND 6 BILLION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-02 14:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG PGOV EPET ELAB CD
07NDJAMENA199ABECHE: EASTERN CHAD HUB FOR THE UN, NGOS AND ANY
[...] (u) Summary. Abeche is the major city in eastern Chad, used as a hub by the UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that work in the region. Security remains an issue, with the UN still drawn down to essential personnel only (Phase IV)). UN and NGO staff favor a [...]
2007-03-02 15:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF PREL KCRS KPKO CD SU
07NDJAMENA2CHAD: 2006 CHILD LABOR UPDATE
[...] Summary: To date, the Chadian GovernmentQs efforts to combat the worst forms of child labor have been centered on laying the legal foundation to meet its commitments to international labor conventions aimed at protecting children. While progress has been made at completing studies that identi [...]
2007-01-03 09:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI CD
07NDJAMENA20SUDANESE REBELS PASS THROUGH N'DJAMENA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sudanese rebel groups plan to make every effort to meet Special Envoy Natsios during his visit to Chad. Sudanese Liberation Movement's Ahmed Abdul Shafi and representatives from the National Redemption Front claimed that there was extensive military coordination on the ground, b [...]
2007-01-10 09:57:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
07NDJAMENA200ABECHE: EASTERN CHAD HUB FOR THE UN, NGOS AND ANY
[...] (u) Summary. Abeche is the major city in eastern Chad, used as a hub by the UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that work in the region. Security remains an issue, with the UN still drawn down to essential personnel only (Phase IV)). UN and NGO staff favor a [...]
2007-03-02 15:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF PREL KCRS KPKO CD SU
07NDJAMENA204CHAD/USA SIGN AGREEMENT ON ESTABLISHMENT OF
[...] On March 5, the Ambassador signed an agreement with the Government of Chad on the establishment of the American International School of N'djamena. The Secretary of State for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Djidda Moussa Outman, signed for the Government of Chad. [...]
2007-03-05 16:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASCH PREL CD
07NDJAMENA205LET'S TAKE THIS YES FOR AN ANSWER: NEXT STEPS ON A
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION: President Deby's rejection of the UN border force proposed by the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UNDPKO) leaves an opening for bringing in a smaller force tasked with protecting humanitarian operations in eastern Chad. We believe we should pur [...]
2007-03-05 17:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD
07NDJAMENA206CHAD: RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST ON CT ACTIVITIES
[...] (C) Summary: Chad actively cooperates with the U.S. on counterterrorism activities and programs. Chad has been a consistent participant in the PSI and TSCTI programs, and remains the only TSCTP country to host a Joint Planning and Advisory Team (JPAT). Due to porous borders and lack of immi [...]
2007-03-05 17:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC EAID MASS PTER CD
07NDJAMENA214CHAD: FY06 SECTION 1206 - MISI INITIATIVE
[...] (SBU) The N'djamena country team reviewed the Multi-National Information Sharing Program (MISI) options for Chad based on written and oral presentations from the MISI team. The country team decided that MISI could be beneficial to Chadian security services, primarily as a tool for internet [...]
2007-03-09 17:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PARM AG CD MOPS NO SG TS
07NDJAMENA222CHAD: TALKING TO SUDANESE REBELS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese rebel leaders Adam Shogar, Gamal Addine Ibrahim, Tadjadine Bechin Niam and Sharif Harir told Ambassador on March 9 that the proposed SLM rebel conference should occur soon, but funding for transportation and logistics is needed. Shogar reiterated that a unified SLM/A p [...]
2007-03-13 14:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD PGOV PHUM SU
07NDJAMENA237CHAD: INPUT FOR ANNUAL AGOA REPORT
[...] (U) Summary: Per reftel, Embassy provides the following input on Chad for the President,s 2007 Report on AGOA. End Summary --------------------------------------------- --------------- Market Economy/Economic Reform/Elimination of Trade Barriers --------------------------------------------- [...]
2007-03-15 10:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD AGOA ECON CD
07NDJAMENA245CHAD EXPLAINS RESERVATIONS ON UN BORDER FORCE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chad supports a UN force of police and gendarmes to protect refugees, displaced Chadians, and humanitarian workers on its border with Sudan, but not proposals for a much larger military force, Chad's Foreign Minister told the Ambassador March 20. He said a "massive" force ra [...]
2007-03-20 16:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD
07NDJAMENA251AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE IN SUPPORT OF HUMANITARIAN
[...] (C) The Ambassador presented points in ref to Foreign Minister Allam-mi in a meeting on March 20. 2. (S) The Foreign Minister responded that the United States will require Libya's approval for the request for overflights even before Chad's. He said Chad prefers to solve its problems wit [...]
2007-03-21 16:14:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETMARR PBTS PINR PREL GR LI SU CD
07NDJAMENA257 PRESIDENT DEBY ACKNOWLEDGES GUEREDA INSECURITY
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Deby visited Guereda March 22 to deal with ongoing Tama/Zaghawa conflict. In a meeting in Kounoungou Refugee Camp, he acknowledged to refugees, local residents, and the humanitarian community that there were indeed security problems, and said that he would create a n [...]
2007-03-26 12:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV KCRS CD SU
07NDJAMENA258CHAD: MEETING WITH AHMED DIRAIJ
[...] (SBU) Summary. Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance (SFDA) leader Ahmed Diraij shared his impressions of diplomatic moves and countermoves by Chad, Sudan and Eritrea relative to the Darfur conflict with the Ambassador March 21. He expected continuing jockeying for position in the week ahead amo [...]
2007-03-26 12:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SU CD
07NDJAMENA261NEW POLLUTION ADDS TO CHAD'S UXO AND MINE LEGACY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over from 2006 battles in eastern Chad is proving deadly to civilians (mostly children) and will be the focus of Chad's next demining appeal. The government's delay in providing long-promised counterpart funding is one of many problems hampering t [...]
2007-03-26 15:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MARR MASS MOPS CD
07NDJAMENA262NEW CHAD CABINET: KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE, YOUR
[...] (SBU) President Deby's new cabinet, announced on March 4, features eight new ministers. The new cabinet has several notable characteristics. Some 13 percent have participated in the international visitors program and one is a former USAID employee. For the first time in recent memory, the c [...]
2007-03-26 15:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PHUM PREL CD
07NDJAMENA274IMF WORRIED ABOUT CHAD FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: A visiting IMF team and World Bank mission leader said that maintaining fiscal sustainability in Chad will continue to be difficult, especially when substantial oil revenue is about to be received (oil taxes paid March 30 come to USD $420 million.) Major concerns include: incre [...]
2007-03-30 10:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA278CHAD: DAS SWAN MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) James C. Swan April 2, Chad Foreign Minister SIPDIS Allam-mi explained that he had not yet briefed the Cabinet on his meetings in New York and therefore could not give an update on whether a green light would be given to the [...]
2007-04-03 09:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PGOV UNSC CD SU
07NDJAMENA291SUDANESE REBELS STILL A LONG WAY FROM UNIFYING
[...] (C) Summary. NRF officials, including two ex-pat political representatives from the UK, indicated frustration at the slow progress of unifying the Sudanese rebels in a meeting with them April 4. They said they see the United States as an important friend and ally and urged diplomatic pressu [...]
2007-04-04 17:15:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PREF CD SU CRS
07NDJAMENA295CHAD COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-05 12:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OVIP
07NDJAMENA302CHAD SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE
[...] (C) Summary: United States interests in Chad have evolved over the last seven years. Highlights of the new relationship include U.S. humanitarian support for the Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad and U.S. political leadership in seeking a resolution of the Darfur conflict, U.S./Chad coopera [...]
2007-04-06 11:01:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF OTRA SU CD
07NDJAMENA309CHAD PRIME MINISTER MEETS WITH CODEL MCGOVERN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Massachusetts Congressman James P. McGovern, Ranking Minrity Member of the House Subcommittee on Rules mt on April 5 with Chad Prime Minister Nouradine elwa Kassire Koumakoye. Kassire spoke at length about his countr's relationship with the U.S. and fforts to resolve the Darf [...]
2007-04-10 11:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA318 CODEL MCGOVERN VISITS EASTERN CHAD, MEETS SUDAN REBELS
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Rep. James McGovern and staffers, plus Ambassador and Emboffs, visited the Abeche area on 6-7 April, meeting with local Chadian authorities, UN officials, NGO workers, and Sudanese rebel leaders. The group drove to Gaga camp to meet with Sudanese refugees. In a meeting with Rep [...]
2007-04-12 10:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PHUM KCRS CD SU OVIP OTRA
07NDJAMENA324 CODEL McGovern Visits IDPs Fleeing Attacks
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Rep. James McGovern and staffers, along with the Ambassador and Emboffs, witnessed the grave humanitarian crisis unfolding near Koukou Angarana in eastern Chad on 7 April. An estimated 9,000 people have fled west towards the area after attacks on the villages of Tiero and Marena [...]
2007-04-12 15:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PHUM KCRS CD SU OTRA OVIP
07NDJAMENA325CLASHES CONTINUE, IDP SITUATION WORSENS IN EASTERN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the last two weeks the security and humanitarian situation in eastern Chad has taken a dangerous turn for the worse. The Dar Sila region near the border with Sudan south of Abeche has been the scene of attacks by janjaweed militias, an upsurge in new Internally Displaced [...]
2007-04-13 08:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD SU
07NDJAMENA329CAR REFUGEES IN CHAD: INCREASE IN MALNUTRITION
[...] (SBU) Summary. An end-March monitoring visit to the three refugee camps for Central African Republic (CAR) refugees near Gore found that the malnutrition rate at Amboko Camp - the oldest of the three (established mid-June 2003) - had tripled from December to March. While the malnutrition rat [...]
2007-04-17 12:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV KCRS CD CT
07NDJAMENA331DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETING WITH DARFUR REBELS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of Sudanese rebel movements from JEM, NMRD and SLA met with Deputy Secretary Negroponte in Ndjamena, April 17. The movements explained that three months of meetings in Chad had failed to unify the movements, but that they were still trying. The effort by GNU V [...]
2007-04-18 08:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PGOV SU CD
07NDJAMENA34INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN CHAD
[...] Per request paragraph 2 reftel, names follow of five most influential women from civil society and government in Chad. 2. Mariam Moussa, Minister of Solidarity and Micro Credit, (235) 52-05-76 and (235) 632-8609. Ph.D. in public management and active campaigner for poverty alleviation. [...]
2007-01-11 09:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PHUM PREL CD
07NDJAMENA341DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE MEETS CHADIAN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Deputy Secretary Negroponte met President Idriss Deby Itno and Foreign Minister (FM) Alam-mi late Monday afternoon April 16, in the Chadian capital of N'Djamena. In both meetings the Deputy Secretary discussed regional peace and stability, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur [...]
2007-04-20 11:34:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETPGOV OVIP PREL PREF UNSC CD SU
07NDJAMENA357REFUGEE PROTECTION IN EASTERN CHAD - Part 1
[...] (U) Summary: A team from the DepartmentQs Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration/Africa Office (PRM/AFR) and the office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) visited Sudanese refugee camps in eastern Chad from March 20-28 to monitor USG-funded protection and [...]
2007-04-26 09:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV KCRS SU CD
07NDJAMENA358REFUGEE PROTECTION IN EASTERN CHAD - Part 2
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-26 09:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV KCRS SU CD
07NDJAMENA372THE CORRECT NAME FOR THE CAPITAL OF CHAD
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-02 06:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT PINR APER CD
07NDJAMENA385JEM LEADER ON CHAD-SUDAN BORDER CONFLICT
[...] (C) More fighting on the Chad-Sudan border is likely as both countries move to implement the agreement reached in Riyadh to stop supporting rebel groups aimed at each other, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Chairman Khalil Ibrahim told the Ambassador and Poloff May 5. Khalil expected Kha [...]
2007-05-07 14:54:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL CD SU
07NDJAMENA396SUDAN REBEL LEADER SEEKS DARFUR PEACE TALKS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) is ready to start Darfur peace talks tomorrow and wants to cooperate with the United States, JEM Chairman Khalil Ibrahim stressed in a meeting on May 5. Khalil expressed support for the United Nation's mediation effort, a Darfur ceasefire [...]
2007-05-08 16:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD
07NDJAMENA403DONORS ASKED TO TELL CHAD TO REIN IN SPENDING
[...] (C) Summary and action request: The IMF and the World Bank have asked the United States and France to join them in a new Multi-Donor Mission (MDM) to urge President Deby to rein in military and infrastructure spending in order to maintain Chad's solvency into 2008 and 2009. Chad's request to [...]
2007-05-10 09:32:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN EAID CD
07NDJAMENA409CHAD FY O6 SECTION 1206 - MISI INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-11 12:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS PARM CD
07NDJAMENA41EAC FOR USAID MISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-12 10:02:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC
07NDJAMENA410CHADIAN TROOP BUILD-UP UNDERWAY; ALL QUIET, FOR NOW
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Chad (GOC) is ready to launch a major attack against Chadian rebels if the rebels cross over from Sudan for one last offensive before the rainy season -- or if they are expelled by Sudan. Embassy sources do not put much weight in the Saudi-brokered accord between [...]
2007-05-11 12:18:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CD SU
07NDJAMENA411CHAD FY O6 SECTION 1206 - MISI INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-11 12:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS PARM CD
07NDJAMENA419CHAD'S NEW PETROLEUM CODE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of the ExxonMobil-led oil consortium view Chad's new Petroleum Code as presenting a reasonable framework of incentives and obligations for foreign companies interested in oil exploitation. The Code is ambiguous on whether companies with existing agreements are [...]
2007-05-16 12:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EPET EFIN PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA42NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Capping the reestablishment of relations with Chad, China's foreign minister visited N'Djamena January 6-7. China,s new envoy to Chad told the Ambassador that China recognizes that development in Chad and the region requires peace and stability. He noted China's interest in C [...]
2007-01-12 10:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EPET MOPS PREF PREL CD
07NDJAMENA424N'DJAMENA EAC FOR MAY 18, 2007
[...] (S) On May 18, 2007 at 0950 hours the N,djamena EAC to discuss recent threat information from SIMO regarding an RPG attack on the US Embassy and apparent kidnapping plans by Islamic extremists for Americans, French and Italian citizens living in Chad. Those present were the Ambassador, DCM, DA [...]
2007-05-18 17:49:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETASEC
07NDJAMENA43C-130'S FOR CHAD?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chad wants to buy four C-130 aircraft at a cost of over USD 300 million. Whether Chad needs or can afford so many new aircraft is questionable. Also an issue is how they will be used. Chad wants to buy them primarily to defend the regime against a backlash provoked by its re [...]
2007-01-12 12:06:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALBEXP EFIN KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
07NDJAMENA434SLM UNITY MEETING YIELDS STILL ANOTHER FACTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The attempt to reunify the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) at Ameri in Darfur last month appears instead to have succeeded in giving birth to yet another splinter group. According to its spokesman, speaking with us on May 22, the newly christened Revolutionary Military Counc [...]
2007-05-23 14:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD SU
07NDJAMENA445 CHAD: ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW BOARD III
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-29 16:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER CD
07NDJAMENA446CHAD ELECTION DIALOGUE: A POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY?
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Discussions on electoral reform are moving forward between the Mouvement Patriotique de Salut (MPS),Chad's ruling party, and the opposition. Agreement could come in the next weeks. Even diehard critics of the regime see promise that the talks could lead toward a more inclusive [...]
2007-05-30 14:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
07NDJAMENA455GRAND IMAM VOICES CONCERN OVER EXTREMISTS' "NEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY Fundamentalist and extremist ideologies continue to gain influence in Chad, according to the Grand Imam, who reported on the "new strategy" of a number of Islamic organizations. The World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY) and the Islamic Forum (IF) have been officially banned by [...]
2007-06-04 18:01:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCD PGOV PREL KISL
07NDJAMENA457CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY ON UNFORCE ND DIALOGUE
[...] Summary: President Deb, in a meeting with the Ambassador June 4, welcoed the announcement by the United States of additonal sanctions on Sudan. He continuedto resist the idea of an international force in Chad. Money for such an expensive project, he said, would be better spent moving refug [...]
2007-06-05 10:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL HUM CD SU
07NDJAMENA46CHAD'S ROLE IN PEACE IN DARFUR: IS THIS THE RIGHT
[...] (C) AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTION: This is an important piece on our engagement with Chad and its role in peace efforts in Darfur. It was prepared by Jitu Sardar, who is completing an impressive tour here after having contributed significantly to our reporting on eastern Chad and our Darfur re [...]
2007-01-13 13:43:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
07NDJAMENA462SLM LEADER COMMENTS ON UNIFICATION EFFORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The prospects for leaders within the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) to unify appear to be dim and getting dimmer. During a recent meeting with SLM leader Adam Shogar, he expressed dismay with recent unification efforts, and was focused on the differences between the vari [...]
2007-06-05 16:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC SU CD
07NDJAMENA468KOME OILFIELD SECURITY
[...] (SBU) After receiving tearline information that suspected extremists had allegedly conducted surveillance on the Doba Oil facility in Chad, on May 24, 2007 the Regional Security Officer was invited to review the oilfield security operation in the Kome region of Chad near the city of Doba by the [...]
2007-06-06 13:53:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC CD EPET PGOV PREL
07NDJAMENA470N'DJAMENA EAC DISCUSSES INTRUDER INCIDENT
[...] (SBU) On June 5, 2007 at 0830 hours the N,djamena EAC met to discuss the recent intruder penetration of the Embassy compound, counter-measures implemented and any new information. Those present were the Ambassador, DAO, RSO, MO, POL/MIL. The following information was discussed: 2. (S) As r [...]
2007-06-07 07:27:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRET//NOFORNASEC
07NDJAMENA474CHAD/SUDAN: MASALIT RESTIVENESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: A new Darfur rebel group is being formed composed of Masalit who object to control by Zaghawans, whether Chadian or Darfurian. The group may not get off the ground, but its formation is indicative of the splintering trend among the Darfur rebels and dissatisfaction among Masa [...]
2007-06-07 13:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM CD SU
07NDJAMENA477CHAD: FOREIGN MINISTER ON REBELS AND PEACEKEEPING
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador June 7, Foreign Minister Allam-Mi said that both Sudan and Chad were adequately abiding by the Riyadh accord's requirement to rein in each other's rebels. Greater calm had prevailed in eastern Chad as a result. Allam-mi hardened his verbiage op [...]
2007-06-07 15:56:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CH SU
07NDJAMENA484CHAD: EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY
[...] SUMMARY: According to Chad's finance and oil ministers, the Economic and Monetary Commission of Central Africa (CEMAC) is seized with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and, within Chad, the oil minister heads a team that is supposed to address EITI's requirments. END [...]
2007-06-11 15:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EPET PREL CD
07NDJAMENA487CHAD: WORLD BANK VIEWS ON EVE OF MULTIDONOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the eve of the multidonor meeting in Ndjamena, World Bank experts assess that Chad's poverty indicators are headed downward, despite a 2007 spike in oil revenues. With most of its oil revenues consumed by military expenditures already in the first quarter of 2007, Chad is f [...]
2007-06-12 08:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL CD
07NDJAMENA488CHAD: LIMITS OF OIL REVENUE OVERSIGHT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador June 11, the head of the oil-revenue supervisory office ("College"),Lamana Abdoulaye, acknowledged that the strictures on his office substantially diminished its effectiveness. He also claimed the College had turned back some faulty projects a [...]
2007-06-13 09:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ECON EFIN PREL CD
07NDJAMENA499CHAD: IMPORTANT JUNCTURE IN INTERNAL POLITICAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ongoing political dialogue in Chad has come to a crunch point. According to a senior official who serves as go-between in the dialogue, several key areas of disagreement remain, but each one is surmountable. A prominent oppositionist has removed himself from the dialogu [...]
2007-06-15 15:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL CD
07NDJAMENA50EASTERN CHAD: USAID ASSESSMENT OF INTERNALLY
[...] Summary: The USG humanitarian assessment team in eastern Chad is investigating reports of rising numbers of internally displaced persons. On January 17 and 18, the team visited two IDP sites and refugee camps in the Farchana area of Assounga Departement. Recent arrivals at the sites are from [...]
2007-01-19 19:16:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI CD
07NDJAMENA504CHAD: KOUCHNER PLAN ACCEPTED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Deby hasaccepted a two-track humanitarian protection pla for eastern Chadthat Kouchner proposed to him une 10. The plan is modest but achievable. It culd have a relatively quick impact in protecting efugees and internally displaced persons, as well s somewhat reduci [...]
2007-06-18 10:45:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO CD PHUM PREF
07NDJAMENA506ISLAM IN SOUTHERN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: What is the status of Islam in southern Chad, a relatively densely populated area but traditionally largely Christian or animist? Embassy NQDjamena PAO and Arabic/Muslim Outreach Specialist set out to answer this question, at least anecdotally, during two trips over a three- [...]
2007-06-19 16:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA507CHAD: TOWARD FREER RADIO AND
[...] (U) Summary: There are some potentially significant changes underway in ChadQs media environment, and, with the apparent end of the State of Emergency, censorship of the independent press has virtually ceased. First, ChadQs government-controlled national radio and television are moving tow [...]
2007-06-19 16:16:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA508CORRECTED VERSION: ISLAM IN SOUTHERN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: What is the status of Islam in southern Chad, a relatively densely populated area but traditionally largely Christian or animist? Embassy N'Djamena PAO and Arabic/Muslim Outreach Specialist set out to answer this question, at least anecdotally, during two trips over a three- [...]
2007-06-20 06:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA509CORRECTED VERSION; CHAD: TOWARD FREER RADIO AND
[...] (U) Summary: There are some potentially significant changes underway in Chad's media environment, and, with the apparent end of the State of Emergency, censorship of the independent press has virtually ceased. First, Chad's government-controlled national radio and television are moving tow [...]
2007-06-20 06:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA513CHAD: MISI INITIATIVE CLARIFICATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-21 10:45:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS PARM CD
07NDJAMENA516CHAD: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON DIALOGUE, REBELS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Abderaman Moussa, the National Mediator, and Jean Alingue, prominent oppositionist, gave the Ambassador June 19 their very different views on the ongoing political dialogue and, in particular, participation of the rebels. Alingue said that the dialogue had reached agreement o [...]
2007-06-21 18:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA517CHAD/SUDAN: JEM PERSPECTIVE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Taljadine Niam, JEM representative in Chad, met the Ambassador June 20 at his request, seeking to maintain contact despite sanctions on JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim. Khalil, he claimed, had departed Chad for Darfur with "all" the JEM forces. He said JEM (contrary to its blockin [...]
2007-06-21 18:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM CD SU
07NDJAMENA523CHAD: STRIKE DRAGS ON
[...] SUMMARY: Some progress has been made, but the general strike in Chad still drags on. The government is holding to its offer of a 15 percent salary increase. Some minor unions have accepted but the major union has again balked. Meanwhile, a peaceful group of female teachers on June 21 block [...]
2007-06-22 14:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELAB PGOV ASEC CD
07NDJAMENA53CHAD:SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL COORDINATION
[...] (S/NF) Following are AmEmbassy N'djamena's comments on Section 1206 proposals for Chad. Given the fragility of the political situation in Chad, highly visible equipment deliveries or major new training programs should be avoided, 2. (S/NF) A. Improve Partner National Intelligence (Al [...]
2007-01-22 11:43:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRET//NOFORNPARM PK PM PREL MASS CD
07NDJAMENA530CHAD: FURTHER ON KOUCHNER PLAN
[...] (SBU) Francois Dureau, representing the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in talks in Chad, briefed ambassadors June 25, before departing the country, on the status of the two-track humanitarian protection plan for eastern Chad (reftel). He said that most of the discussions had [...]
2007-06-26 15:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO CD PHUM PREF
07NDJAMENA531CHAD MISSES 70 PERCENT TARGET BUT WORLD BANK STILL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The World Bank and IMF concluded two weeks of meetings with the Chadian government June 24, pleased with the participation of all ministries and opennness of the process. They brought senior Chadian officials, including military, together for the first time to focus on budget [...]
2007-06-26 15:22:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL CD
07NDJAMENA540CHAD: ANNUAL REVIEW OF MOA BETWEEN COM AND COCOM
[...] (SBU) Embassy EAC met to discuss the annual review of the appendices of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Chief of Mission and the Combatant Commander (COCOM) (reftel B). Following are new annexes A and B. 2. (SBU) Annex A: DOD Elements and Personnel under the Security Respons [...]
2007-06-28 15:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAODE AMGT ASEC KMRS CD
07NDJAMENA544CHAD: FISSURES IN OPPOSITION RANKS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two tracks of government-opposition talks have been under way for the past week, one with the Chadian rebels in Tripoli, the other a continuation of the internal dialogue in Ndjamena. Preliminary indications suggest that serious fissures are developing within the formerly cohe [...]
2007-06-29 10:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CD LY SU
07NDJAMENA546CHAD OIL: GOVERNMENT WAVES THE CARROTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Working relations between the Government of Chad and the Esso-led oil consortium continue to improve. It appears that the President has been persuaded that taking too aggressive an approach at a time when the Consortium is weighing future investment decisions could jeopardize [...]
2007-07-02 16:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA553TRANSFORMING CHAD: A CAUTIONARY TALE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the last three years the United States has devoted more attention and resources to Chad than at any time since the joint fight against Libyan aggression in the 1980's. Chad is a major beneficiary of the Trans Saharan Counter-Terrorism Partnership initiative. It receive [...]
2007-07-03 20:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN EPET KDEM KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
07NDJAMENA555CHAD: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR YOUNOUSMI ON SUDAN,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Deby's close advisor Adoum Younousmi told the Ambassador July 3 that, during his trip to Khartoum the previous week, he had found the Sudanese leaders "lacking in vision" in their objectives in Darfur, but "evolving." They had asked for Chadian mediation with the Da [...]
2007-07-04 10:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV CD SU
07NDJAMENA557DEMOCRACY AND STABILITY IN CHAD: IS THERE HOPE?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Idriss Deby Itno is a master survivor in a political culture as cruel and a neighborhood as dangerous as any in the world. Over the course of the last few years he has succeeded once again in facing down all challengers despite the fierce backlash his move to become [...]
2007-07-05 07:35:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID EFIN EPET KDEM KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
07NDJAMENA564CHAD/SUDAN: ROUNDING UP DARFUR REBELS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The funeral and associated traditional mourning customs for President Deby's son tied up key players in Ndjamena, with the result that the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue (CHD) still does not have Chadian approval for a flight to take Darfur rebels to Mombasa. CHD is focusing [...]
2007-07-06 09:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM CD SU
07NDJAMENA593COST AND RESOURCE ESTIMATE FOR US OUTPOST IN ABECHE
[...] (U) RSO N,djamena was tasked on July 3 to produce a survey to address the creation of a diplomatic outpost in Abeche, Chad. US Embassy Chad has recognized since early 2007 the desirability of a permanent base of operations (or at the very least, a facility) to house the numerous TDY,rs in the [...]
2007-07-13 13:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CD
07NDJAMENA594CHAD: TWO UNEASY TRACKS OF DIALOGUE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Strains within the opposition coalition have not yet led to an open rupture, but the internal political dialogue is blocked over the issue of a government of consensus. Meanwhile, there is apparent progress in the parallel dialogue in Tripoli between the government and rebels [...]
2007-07-13 18:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CD LY SU
07NDJAMENA61SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY (SHRD)
[...] Chad is a centralized republic with a population of approximately 10 million. The Government of Chad,s human rights record remained poor in 2006. President Idriss Deby has ruled the country since taking power in a 1990 rebellion. Political power remained concentrated in the hands of a north [...]
2007-01-23 16:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PGOV PHUM PREF KDEM CD
07NDJAMENA618CHAD FOREIGN MINISTER ON ARUSHA MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chad Foreign Minister Allam-mi stressed to Charge that Chad would do all it could to ensure a successful meeting in Arusha. Referring to Embassy demarches concerning the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue's aborted meeting in Mombasa, he stated that Chad did not want to have a bi [...]
2007-07-25 16:39:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV SU CD
07NDJAMENA619 EASTERN CHAD - INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT UPDATE
[...] Most internally displaced people (IDPs) in eastern Chad are now receiving assistance from humanitarian organizations. The numbers have stabilized at about 170,000, and due to the rains no major conflict is expected for several months. Issues faced by the humanitarian community include insecu [...]
2007-07-25 17:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD
07NDJAMENA62VISIT OF SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS TO CHAD: MEETINGS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno and Foreign Minister Allam-mi on January 18 in N'djamena, Chad, Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios expressed thanks to Chad for receiving Darfur refugees and for its support for a UN force on the border. He stressed that [...]
2007-01-23 16:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM CD SU
07NDJAMENA623UNDER-AGE RECRUITMENT IN CHAD
[...] SUMMARY: International media attention to under-age recruitment in Chad, stimulated by reports from Human Rights Watch and UN, has brought an indignant rebuke from the government spokesman, but, at the working level, it appears to have resulted in enhanced cooperation from the Ministry of De [...]
2007-07-26 13:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MCAP KAWC PREL CD
07NDJAMENA625 EASTERN CHAD - IDP NEEDS BEING MET
[...] Most of the estimated 173,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in eastern Chad are now receiving assistance from humanitarian organizations. USAID/OFDA's partners and other humanitarian organizations are providing services to the IDPs in the water/sanitation/hygiene (WASH),health/nutritio [...]
2007-07-30 16:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD
07NDJAMENA628CHAD: SECTION 1206 FOR FY 07
[...] (S/NOFORN) Post has reviewed the FY 07 proposed 1206 activity (reftel A) and declines the following program: Tactical Communications Interoperability (TCI) (USD 3.144) for Chad, Algeria, Mauritania and Nigeria Reason: At this time a number of training and equipment activities are underway [...]
2007-07-31 10:17:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETPARM PK PM PREL MASS CD
07NDJAMENA633 CHAD - UN OCHA WEAKNESSES
[...] (SBU) The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) effort to coordinate humanitarian activities in eastern Chad is falling short of expectations and promises made to donors earlier in 2007. To improve its performance, OCHA HQ needs to take eastern Chad's requirements more [...]
2007-08-02 13:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD
07NDJAMENA637SCENESTTER FOR GENERAL WARD
[...] (C) General Ward: Your first visit to Chad will highlight for President Idriss Deby Itno the importance the United States attaches to the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) and U.S. appreciation for Chad's support on counter-terrorism issues. We anticipate that the President [...]
2007-08-03 12:19:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA64CHAD: AU CHAIRMANSHIP VOTE
[...] (C) In the absence of Foreign Minister Allam-mi, who has already departed for the African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit in Addis Ababa, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns in ref over the AU Chairmanship elections with Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Djidda Moussa Outman on January 24. [...]
2007-01-24 10:21:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL CD
07NDJAMENA649CHAD SHOWS RENEWED INTEREST IN EXTRACTIVE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chadian officials, including the Minister of Oil, briefed donors on plans to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in two World Bank-hosted meetings July 26 and July 31, 2007. Chad had already expressed interest in joining EITI in 2004, but there [...]
2007-08-08 05:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDCD ECON EPET PREL
07NDJAMENA657GUINNESS TESTS THE WATERS IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 26, Chad's only brewery, Les Brasseries du Tchad (BDT),announced the addition of Guinness to its existing product line. Chad's neighbor, Cameroon, has produced Guinness for years and some Cameroonian Guinness was imported to Chad both legally and clandestinely. By pr [...]
2007-08-13 12:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD ETRD ECON PGOV PREL
07NDJAMENA66SUDANESE COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT HIJACKED TO N'DJAMENA
[...] A Sudanese Air West passenger aircraft reportedly en route from Khartoum to El Fasher and Niyalla January 24 was hijacked by a young Sudanese man and diverted to N,Djamena. The Minister of Public Security,s chief of staff, who was at N,Djamena Airport when the aircraft arrived around 10:30 t [...]
2007-01-24 15:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC EAIR PTER CD SU
07NDJAMENA665GENERAL WARD,S MEETING WITH CHAD PRESIDENT,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Commander of the European Military Command General William Ward met President Deby August 8 in Chad in a meeting primarily focused on aircraft sales. While arguing the case for Chad's need for C-130's, President Deby also expressed interest in learning more about the C-2 [...]
2007-08-14 13:28:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD PGOV PREL
07NDJAMENA666CHINA'S RETURN TO CHAD: ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a nine-year hiatus, China (PRC) and Chad renewed diplomatic relations in 2006. According to the Chinese Embassy's Economic and Commercial Counselor, China is adhering to all Chinese and Chadian environmental and social laws as it enters the energy and agricultural sectors [...]
2007-08-15 08:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD CH ECON EINV SENV PHUM
07NDJAMENA674 EASTERN CHAD - USAID FIELD VISIT TO DOGDORE IDP
[...] The week of August 13, a USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) field officer based in eastern Chad traveled to the internally displaced person (IDP) site of Dogdore, the largest IDP site in eastern Chad. Dogdore's proximity to the Chad-Sudan border and the [...]
2007-08-16 16:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD
07NDJAMENA675POLITICAL ACCORD REACHED WITH CHADIAN OPPOSITION
[...] (SBU) Summary: After eight months of negotiation under the aegis of the European Union (EU) and the UN, Chad's ruling party (MPS) signed an agreement August 13 with the opposition coalition (CPDC) on reform of Chad's electoral process. The signing took place in the presence of President Idri [...]
2007-08-17 07:19:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA676CHINA IN CHAD: AN ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mr. Huang Mingyuan, Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Chinese (PRC) Embassy in Chad, provided an overview of the current state of China's activities here. Since reopening its embassy in N'djamena in 2006, China has responded to a variety of needs expressed by the Chad [...]
2007-08-17 10:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD CH ECON ETRD PREL ENRG EPET
07NDJAMENA689CHAD SCENESETTER FOR CODEL JACKSON LEE
[...] (U) U.S. Embassy N'Djamena warmly welcomes CODEL Jackson Lee to Chad August 26-27, 2007. Chad is a landlocked, impoverished nation situated in the geographical "heart" of Africa. Violent regime change has been the rule since independence in 1960. Chad's estimated 9.4 million people are prim [...]
2007-08-23 09:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CD
07NDJAMENA70SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS TO REBELS: TIME IS NOT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his meeting with DPA non- signatory groups, Presidential Special Envoy Andrew Natsios delivered a clear message to rebel leaders gathered in eastern Chad that the only solution to the Darfur crisis was through negotiation. He informed them that the USG supported an all-incl [...]
2007-01-24 17:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF CD SU
07NDJAMENA711CONTACT INFORMATION FOR EMBASSY NDJAMENA AND
[...] Listed below is contact information for Heads of Sections, U.S. Embassy Ndjamena. All personnel may be contacted via the switchboard 24/7. Embassy telnos: Country Code: 235 Switchboard: 251-7009/251-6211/251-9233/251-9218/251-4727/ 251-4296 Switchboard cell: (235) 679-0978/679-0979 IVG: [...]
2007-09-06 16:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA712CHAD:EU TEAM ASKS HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT PROPOSED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After the week-long visit of a European Commission Technical Assessment Team, many questions were still unanswered as to how a possible multidimensional UN/EU force would go about protecting refugees, IDPs and humanitarian workers in eastern Chad given the complex political an [...]
2007-09-07 15:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
07NDJAMENA752UNDER-AGE RECRUITMENT IN DARFUR REFUGEE CAMPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR protection officers in Darfur refugee camps in Farchana and Iriba report recent incidents of recruitment of under-age combatants for Sudanese rebel movements. Chadian officials assert that they are working to prevent recruitment and ensure the civilian character of the re [...]
2007-09-26 14:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM CD SU
07NDJAMENA755SUDAN REBEL ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN/AU organized September 19-20 meeting in N'Djamena was billed as an opportunity to organize Sudan rebel movement delegations and positions before the October 27, 2007 negotiation in Tripoli, but from most accounts it was inconclusive on all fronts and lacked the presenc [...]
2007-09-27 15:53:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF CD SU
07NDJAMENA784SUDAN REBELS IN CHAD REPORT JEM SPLIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: JEM representatives informed Emboffs that a split has taken place within the movement, pitting Chairman Khalil Ibrahim on one side against his former Vice-Chair Bahar and field Commander Banda on the other. JEM "Chief Negotiator" Ahmed Tugod Lissan accused JEM/Bahar of perpetrat [...]
2007-10-10 08:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF CD SU
07NDJAMENA790CHAD: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW
[...] In response to Reftel, Embassy N'Djamena submits the following updated AGOA country eligibility information. 2. TPSC subcommittee on AGOA implementation country eligibility recommendations 2007 state submissions Country: Chad Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background: Chad, a la [...]
2007-10-11 15:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD CD
07NDJAMENA792PEACE ACCORDS MULTIPLY WITH FRINGE CHAD REBEL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Five minor Chadian rebel/exile groups have signed generic peace agreements with the Government of Chad (GOC) in the last two weeks. The agreements include amnesty for rebels and a commitment to integrate rebel forces into the Chadian army and civil service. Negotiations in Trip [...]
2007-10-12 10:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL LY GB BN CD
07NDJAMENA798CHAD: AMCIT DETAINED NEAR LIBYAN BORDER
[...] (U) The Embassy was notified on Sunday, October 14, that American citizen Stephen Godbolt had been detained since October 12 in the town of Zoumri by ten members of the Chad rebel group MDJT. The rebels belong to a small MDJT faction that has not accepted the terms of recent peace agreements [...]
2007-10-15 13:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA807CHAD: NO PROGRESS ON DETAINED AMCIT
[...] (SBU) No progress has been made in the more than five days of contacts between members of the Chadian Tubu community and the MDJT rebel group currently holding Amcit Steve Godbolt in Zoumri, northern Chad. The local Radio France International (RFI) reporter had agreed to temporarily hold off [...]
2007-10-17 15:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC PGOV PTER PREL CD LY
07NDJAMENA810CHAD: DETAINED AMCIT CASE
[...] (SBU) Radio France International (RFI) broadcast information on the detained Amcit during the 6:30 a.m. (Chad time) Africa news broadcast on October 18. RFI reported that Godbolt had been detained while accompanying members of a Chadian association on a trip from N'Djamena to Bardai. The br [...]
2007-10-18 15:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC PGOV CD LY
07NDJAMENA819CHAD:1206 FUNDED PROPOAL "IMPROVE PARTNER NATION
[...] (SBU) Post has reviewed information containd in ref-email concerning 1206-funded activities o improve partner nation intelligence. The actiities are designed to developa self-sustaining indigenous intelligence capacity capable of detecting, tracking, reporting and sharing intelligence on te [...]
2007-10-22 14:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER CD
07NDJAMENA822CHAD REBEL GROUP ISSUES PRESS RELEASE CONCERNING SEIZED
[...] The Paris-based Chad opposition web site "Al-Wihda" (alwihdainfo.com) has carried a number of postings concerning American Cash Steven Godbold, seized by the MDJT on October 12 in Zoumri, Chad, including one by the group which claims to have seized him. We cannot attest to the authenticity of [...]
2007-10-23 11:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL CASC CD LY
07NDJAMENA823CHAD: 10/23 UPDATE ON GODBOLD SEIZURE
[...] (SBU) According to colleagues of seized Amcit Cash Steven Godbold, Godbold has been moved some 12-15 kilometers away from the town of Zoumri. Chadian Tubus have reported to Godbold's N'Djamena colleagues that the MDJT guards with Godbold are standing watch in shifts, and are concerned that a [...]
2007-10-23 15:37:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPTER CASC CD LY
07NDJAMENA825CHAD AMCIT CASE: REPORTED MDJT REQUEST
[...] (SBU) CDA and other Emboffs met with Mr. Hadir Adji, President of the Associations Friends of the Tibesti and two of his colleagues on October 19 to pass on the message that the case of seized American Cash Steven Godbold was being followed with a great deal of interest and concern in Washingt [...]
2007-10-24 11:40:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCASC PTER CD LY
07NDJAMENA832GOC OFFICIAL SAYS BE PATIENT ON GODBOLD CASE
[...] (SBU) CDA met with the Secretary of State for the Interior Djasnabaille on October 25 to discuss the situation of seized Amcit Cash Steve Godbold. Djasnabaille said that the Government of Chad (GOC) strongly condemned the act. He said that they were in touch with Tubu "notables" from Bardai [...]
2007-10-25 13:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER CASC CD LY
07NDJAMENA849CHAD: GODBOLD UPDATE 10/30
[...] (SBU) Summary: Seized Amcit Cash Steve Godbold has been moved to a location deeper in the heart of the Tibesti, but his colleagues in N'Djamena are still confident that he is in good health and being well treated. The Red Cross has been contacted and is ready to facilitate his release, but t [...]
2007-10-31 18:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC PTER LY CD
07NDJAMENA85 Eastern Chad: USAID Assessment of Internally
[...] Summary: A USG humanitarian assessment team spent two weeks in Chad, including ten days in the East, investigating reports of internal displacement and assessing humanitarian conditions and response for the affected communities. This is the fourth and final cable from the team and includes k [...]
2007-01-29 15:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRS
07NDJAMENA852CHAD: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED:
[...] Post delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in November. Post will report any substantive response septel. TAMLYN [...]
2007-11-05 09:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CD
07NDJAMENA854CHAD: TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-05 09:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CD
07NDJAMENA856GODBOLD CASE: RED CROSS REPORTS LIKELY RELEASE
[...] (SBU) International Red Cross Deputy Director Nikolai Panke contacted Charge D'Affaires on November 5 to inform her that he had spoken with MDJT splinter group leader Choa Dazi by phone. Dazi told him that Amcit Cash Steven Godbold would be released in the next couple of days. Dazi called Godb [...]
2007-11-05 11:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC PTER CD LY
07NDJAMENA870CHAD: ZOE'S ARK AND THE ALLEGED CHILD SMUGGLING
[...] (SBU) Nine Europeans and four Chadians remain in Government of Chad (GOC) custody in the widely-publicized and bizarre case in which a French NGO, Zoe's Ark, attempted to ferry 103 Chadian/Sudanese children to Europe in a chartered Spanish plane. Personal diplomacy by French President Sarkozy [...]
2007-11-07 16:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCD PHUM KTIP
07NDJAMENA876CHAD: FOREIGN MINISTRY RESPONDS ON GUANTANAMO CASE
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Deby has directed his Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take steps to seek the liberation of Chadian Guantanamo detainee Mohamed Algharani (aka Yousef Abkir Salih Al Qarani). Department guidance requested (see para 5). End summary. 2. (SBU) On November 5, Post rece [...]
2007-11-09 10:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER CD
07NDJAMENA877PRESIDENT DEBY SIGNS "THE LAST PEACE AGREEMENT"
[...] (C) Summary. President Deby signed what he called "the last peace agreement" with the remaining Chadian rebel groups at large in Libya on October 25. The formation of a new Government is still expected but other events (in particular, the Zoe's Ark Affair) have taken up government attention. [...]
2007-11-13 08:22:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PTER CD
07NDJAMENA879CHAD:INTERIM ASSESSMENT OF AF WATCH LIST COUNTRIES
[...] Summary. Chad has made some progress in addressing two deficiencies highlighted in the June 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report on Chad, recruitment of minors in the armed forces and prosecuting traffickers. End summary. 2. This message responds to questions in reftel A concerning p [...]
2007-11-13 08:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM KWMN KTIP CD
07NDJAMENA88Chad: 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report Part 1
[...] Summary: The Government of Chad cooperates with United Nations (UN) agencies, local communities and church-based and other domestic and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in combating trafficking, primarily in the area of prevention. Due to intense rebel activity throughout 20 [...]
2007-01-30 10:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG KCRM KFRD KWMN CD
07NDJAMENA886CHAD: MIXED SIGNALS ON GODBOLD CASE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite indications that he might be released shortly, seized American missionary Steve Godbold is still in the hands of MDJT rebels in the Tibesti region of Chad. End summary. 2. (SBU) On November 8 the Al-Wihda website announced that the MDJT splinter group claiming to ho [...]
2007-11-15 15:50:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC PTER CD LY
07NDJAMENA888CHAD: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NTC
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-16 10:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MCAP PINR PINS PTER PARM CD
07NDJAMENA89Chad: 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report Part 2
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-30 10:49:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG KCRM KFRD KWMN CD
07NDJAMENA890MINURCAT AND EUFOR STIRRING IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: A new kind of international operation is slowing standing up in Chad as European (EUFOR) and UN (MINURCAT) forces embark on a joint exercise in providing security to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Chad's isolated eastern provinces bordering Sudan. Given the [...]
2007-11-16 11:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PREL UNSC PREF CD SU CT
07NDJAMENA9 PRESIDENT DEBY CELEBRATES 16
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Idriss Deby Itno celebrated the sixteenth anniversary of his successful coup detat (December 1, 1990) at the annual day of freedom and democracy, held this year in the southern town of Kyabe, in the Moyen Chari region of Chad, on December 29. Representatives from th [...]
2007-01-04 16:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA903CHAD: JEM EXPLAINS ARAB ALLIANCE AND WARNS OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of the Khalil Ibrahim-led wing of the Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) met with Emboffs November 19 to announce a new JEM/Arab alliance, explain the defects of the Sirte meeting and warn of future armed conflict in Darfur and Kordofan. End summary. JE [...]
2007-11-21 13:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO PGOV PHUM CD SU
07NDJAMENA916CHAD: FIGHTING BREAKS OUT ON BORDER
[...] (SBU) Summary. Chadian rebels have taken up arms again, almost one year to the day that they seized and held Chad's eastern town of Abeche for 24 hours. Rebel groups UFDD and RFC claim that the Libyan-brokered peace agreement is not being honored; the Government of Chad points the finger at [...]
2007-11-29 17:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PREF CD SU
07NDJAMENA920CHAD: FIGHTING CONTINUES, DEFENSE MINISTER FIRED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Heaving fighting continues between the government and rebel factions in eastern Chad, with significant casualties among the President's clan. President Deby returned to N'Djamena on December 1 to commemorate 17 years in power and to fire the Defense Minister (former FUC rebel M [...]
2007-12-02 12:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PREL CD SU
07NDJAMENA921CHAD: FIGHTING CONTINUES, DEFENSE MINISTER FIRED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-02 12:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PREL CD SU
07NDJAMENA933CHAD: FIGHTING CONTINUES BETWEEN ANT AND RFC
[...] (C) Summary. Fighting continues in the Biltine area between the Chadian army (ANT) and the RFC rebel group. Cut off from supply lines in the Sudan, the RFC may not be able to survive a siege. On the other hand, coordinated action between the RFC and the UFDD could pull the ANT away and prol [...]
2007-12-06 06:40:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF SD CD
07NDJAMENA934CENTRAL AFRICAN REFUGEES IN SOUTHERN CHAD
[...] (U) Summary. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is pursuing a strategy of self-sufficiency for Central African refugees in southern Chad but is finding it challenging to do so due to lack of resources and the difficulty of timing a reduction in assistance with the refugee [...]
2007-12-06 08:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF CD CT
07NDJAMENA94CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY ASKS TO BUY FOUR C-130
[...] (U) President Idriss Deby Itno has sent a letter to the President requesting approval for the purchase of four new C-130 aircraft under the Foreign Military Sales program. Dated January 19 and delivered by Chadian Ambassador to the United States Mahamoud Bechir to the Ambassador January 30, [...]
2007-01-31 11:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP EFIN PGOV PREL CD
07NDJAMENA942UPDATE ON MINURCAT IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: MINURCAT is moving forward in preparing training activities for Chadian police, but the security and political situation could significantly delay or prevent the planned deployment to eastern Chad. Privately, MINURCAT members expressed concern about their narrow mandate, which [...]
2007-12-06 16:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF UNSC CD CT
07NDJAMENA944CHAD: CONTINUED FIGHTING AND HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS
[...] (C) Summary. Intermittent fighting between the Government and rebel groups has spread to the CAR/Sudan/Chad tri-border region. The UN and NGO's have drawn-down expatriate staff from the Farchana and Goz Beida areas, but road travel and humanitarian flights continue. Common banditry (rather [...]
2007-12-07 17:09:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV CD SU
07NDJAMENA951CHAD: EUFOR PROSPECTS GLOOMY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Cancellation or postponement of EUFOR due to resource and logistics constraints is a possibility according to EUFOR's General Gannacia. Nonetheless, EUFOR and MINURCAT advance teams continue to lay the groundwork for eventual deployment. MINURCAT may request assistance from do [...]
2007-12-13 16:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PGOV PREL PREF CD CR
07NDJAMENA99FOLLOW-UP MEETING WITH NRF REBEL LEADERS
[...] (C) Summary: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) has not yet been able to convince other members of the National Redemption Front (NRF) to issue a statement renouncing any intentions of seeking to overthrow the regime in Khartoum, JEM's political representatives told the Ambassador January [...]
2007-02-01 12:04:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF CD SU SCRS
08NDJAMENA106FRENCH READY FOR ONE LAST CHAD EVACUATION, ACTIVE IN PROMOTING POLITICAL REFORM PROCESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the French Charge D'Aaffaires, a reprise of the February 2-3 attack on N'Djamena is less likely, particularly in view of the thinning Zaghawa forces Timan Erdimi's RFC. France is ready to perform another evacuation if need be, but a second evacuation would trigger t [...]
2008-03-20 13:44:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF CD SU CASC
08NDJAMENA108EASTERN CHAD: EUFOR OUTPACING MINURCAT, IMPROVING SECURITY
[...] SUMMARY. Despite earlier delays, the European Mission in eastern Chad has now leapfrogged impressively ahead of the UN police training mission which provides the raison d'etre for its presence. Hopes are pinned on the recent arrival of UN Special Representative Victor Angelo to speed up MINUR [...]
2008-03-20 16:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PGOV ASEC CD SU
08NDJAMENA111NEW SRSG FOR MINURCAT/EAST CHAD GIVES AMBASSADOR
[...] (U) This is an action message: See para 10. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) New MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo briefed ambassador 3/21 on progress since he arrived two weeks ago, especially signing a Status of Mission Agreement with the GOC, after having successfully for now resisted GO [...]
2008-03-25 10:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PREF MARR EAID UN EU SU CD
08NDJAMENA117HAVING DEFENDED DEBY, JEM/CL MOVES TO SOLIDIFY NEW UMBRELLA
[...] (SBU) Summary. JEM/Collective Leadership fought on behalf of President Deby's government during the February rebel offensive in order to prevent Sudan from using Deby's collapse to "finish off" the Darfur conflict, JEM/CL Chairman Bahar Idriss Abu Gharda told Poloffs on March 25. Abu Gharda cl [...]
2008-03-27 12:31:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF UN AU CD SU
08NDJAMENA119CHAD FOREIGN MINISTER: GIVE BORDER MONITORING MORE
[...] (C) Summary: In a wide ranging meeting with Chad Foreign Minister Allam-mi the Ambassador broached the topic of what messages the United States might usefully convey to Chadian rebels that approached us. Allam-mi urged commitment to the Sirte accords and asked for U.S. assistance in putting [...]
2008-03-28 12:42:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF SU CD
08NDJAMENA122JAMOUS: DEBY STRONG, ABDELWAHID AL NUR WEAK, AND DARFUR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Due to recent defections within two of the major Chadian opposition movements, President Idriss Deby's Government "faces no major danger" in the next year, SLA/Unity leader Suleiman Jamous told Poloffs on March 25. He nonetheless warned that Deby's overthrow at the instigation o [...]
2008-03-28 12:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF UN AU CD SU
08NDJAMENA123DARFUR: TENSIONS MOUNT BETWEEN JEM AND URF REBELS
[...] (C) Two Darfur rebel movements--JEM and the URF--are on the verge of "war" and conflict has erupted between their forces in Chad in recent weeks, according to the chief URF commander. While JEM's military strength is declining as a result of a recent Sudanese offensive and widespread defectio [...]
2008-03-28 14:47:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID CD SU
08NDJAMENA124AMB BRIEFS U.S. DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY TO DEBY ADVISOR;
[...] (SBU) This message is an action request. See para. 5. 2. (SBU) Implementation of the Dakar agreement has not advanced and Khartoum continues to instigate violence in both Chad and Sudan, Presidential Advisor on International Affairs Yousef Abba Saleh told Ambassador Nigro on March 28, 2008. [...]
2008-03-31 07:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KPKO UN AU CD SU
08NDJAMENA125Chad input for 2008 Annual AGOA Report
[...] Post submits the following input for the 2008 President's Annual AGO report. Paragraphs/topics are organized according to the report templa instructions. --------------------------------------------- -------------------------- Market Economy/Economic Reform/Elimination of Trade Barriers --- [...]
2008-03-31 09:50:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD AGOA ECON CD
08NDJAMENA126CHADIAN INSIDER CONFIRMS RIFT WITH JEM, UNITY
[...] (C) A rift has emerged between the Chadian Government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),a businessman with close ties to President Deby and a prominent SLA/Unity commander, told Poloff. Verifying previous reports that SLA/Unity's leadership has ceased its infighting and coalesced a [...]
2008-03-31 17:57:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETPREL PGOV UN AU CD
08NDJAMENA127DAUSA DEBY IMPLIES MORE DIRECT CHADIAN ROLE IN
[...] (C) The international community is ill-suited to mediate the Darfur conflict without the assistance of the Chadian Government, Dausa Deby, the influential half brother of President Idriss Deby and long-time interlocutor with Darfur's rebel movements, told Poloff. Recalling Chad's success in b [...]
2008-04-01 09:33:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UN AU CD SU
08NDJAMENA128CHAD: PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCED REBEL
[...] (U) On April 1, Chadian Prime Minister Kassire convoked the diplomatic corps at his office to announce that at 6:40 a.m. Chad time a group of armed rebels had attacked Ade, 68 kilometers from the Chad/Sudan border. Prime Minister Kassire stated that this attack was proof that Sudanese Presid [...]
2008-04-01 13:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV CD SU
08NDJAMENA134JEM DEVELOPS FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT FOR TALKS AS UN/AU
[...] (SBU) Viewing the UN/AU mediation for Darfur as "paralyzed," JEM is crafting a "framework agreement" that outlines its conditions for adherence to a cessation of hostilities and participation in negotiations with the Sudanese Government. If Sudan then rejects negotiations, JEM will return to a [...]
2008-04-03 09:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UN AU CD SU
08NDJAMENA136UMMA PARTY ATTEMPTS TO RECONCILE CHAD, SUDAN
[...] (SBU) Ahead of Sadiq al Mahdi's upcoming visit to Chad, Sudan's opposition Umma Party is attempting to broker an agreement between Sudan and Chad for both governments to cease their support for rebel groups. A member of Al Mahdi's advance party confirmed rumors that Umma is in "serious talks" [...]
2008-04-03 17:53:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UN AU CD SU
08NDJAMENA137Chad input for 2008 Annual AGOA Report
[...] Post submits the following input for the 2008 President's Annual AGOA report. Paragraphs/topics are organized according to the report template and instructions. -------------------------------------- Market Economy /Economic Reform /Elimination of Trade Barriers -------------------------- [...]
2008-04-04 08:19:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD AGOA ECON CD
08NDJAMENA149PRESIDENT DEBY ON TALKING TO REBELS, THREAT
[...] (C) President Deby told Ambassador April 8 that he welcomed U.S. interest in engaging with Chadian rebel factions to encourage them to lay down weapons and seek a peaceful solution to their grievances. Deby asked the United States to support ongoing regional efforts to reduce tensions between [...]
2008-04-09 15:50:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MARR MASS SU CD
08NDJAMENA157Chad: Blue Lantern, Pre-license end-use check
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Post has been informed that the articles listed on this application have not been exported to Chad. End Summary 2. (S/NF) In answer to questions posed by the Department in ref b, post has been unable to determine if the Chadian MOD has ever/ever received any U.S.- origin op [...]
2008-04-10 18:10:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETETTC KOMC CD
08NDJAMENA162Petroleum in Chad: Business as Usual
[...] (SBU) Summary: With the Government's full attention focused on security, representatives of the Esso (ExxonMobil)led Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline consortium, report "business as usual" in the petroleum sector with minimal friction with governmental authorities. Both Chinese and Taiwanese oil sec [...]
2008-04-16 17:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET ECON EFIN EINV PGOV CD
08NDJAMENA163SRSG ANGELO MULLS MINURCAT ROLE IN MILITARY BORDER
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE: SEE PARA 6. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: UN SRSG VICTOR ANGELO TOLD THE AMBASSADOR 4/16 THAT A UN FORCE OF 100-150 MILITARY OBSERVERS COULD BE PLACED RELATIVELY QUICKLY ALONG THE CHAD-SUDAN BORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE DAKAR PEACE ACCORD IF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL (UNSC) W [...]
2008-04-17 16:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL CD UN EU SU MARR MASS SE LY
08NDJAMENA165CHAD'S NEW PRIME MINISTER: MR. RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary: Youssouf Saleh Abbas, Chad's new Prime Minister (and former International Visitor) sees himself as a patriot with a "visceral" attachment to national unity. He brings to the position experience in national reconciliation and credibility (as a former member of the MDJT rebel group) [...]
2008-04-18 18:09:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF SU CD
08NDJAMENA166CHAD: LOGISTICS CHALLENGES AS RAINY SEASON LOOMS, AND PORT
[...] Regional Food for Peace Officer (RFFPO) Dan Suther visited Chad 9-18 April to assess WFP's logistical operation for eastern Chad. WFP/Chad has a difficult task ahead providing seven months of food for over 400,000 refugees and IDPs before the end of June: distributing May-June rations as well a [...]
2008-04-18 18:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PGOV CD CT LY SU
08NDJAMENA171CHAD PRIME MINISTER ASKS U.S. HELP IN
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. 2. (C) Summary: New Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas urgently asked for U.S. assistance in requesting the postponement of what he fears may be a World Bank decision to terminate activities in Chad. We agree that the new government should be g [...]
2008-04-21 17:33:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EAID CD
08NDJAMENA18ESCALATING TENSIONS AS A CONFIDENT DEBY ATTACKS
[...] (C) Summary: On January 5, Chadian President Deby delivered a blunt and confrontational speech to a pro-government rally accusing Sudan of trying to destabilize Chad by backing Chad's rebel groups. Meanwhile, news media reported on January 7 that Chadian forces bombed rebel bases along the Dar [...]
2008-01-08 14:18:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL CD SU
08NDJAMENA197REQUEST FOR USG ASSISTANCE TO CHADIAN NATIONAL
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE: SEE PARA 6. 2. (SBU) THE USG COULD SIGNIFICANTLY SUPPORT THE "OPENING" OF THE CHADIAN INTERNAL POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT PROCESS BY PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE COMMISSION SET UP TO SHED LIGHT ON EVENTS FOLLOWING THE FAILED REBEL ATTACK O [...]
2008-04-30 13:22:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CD UN PREF PHUM EU SU
08NDJAMENA198JEM RECRUITING IN CHAD REFUGEE CAMPS
[...] (SBU) On Friday, April 25 the Ambassador raised reftel points with Minister Mahamat Ali Nassour. (Nassour is the outgoing Minister of Defense and was formerly Minister of the Interior). Nassour served as the Chair of the Darfur Cease-Fire Commission when it was based in Chad and continues to [...]
2008-05-02 09:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF SU CD
08NDJAMENA201CHAD: NGO HEAD KILLED IN APPARENT CARJACKING
[...] (SBU) The UN and NGO community is assessing the security environment in eastern Chad after the tragic death of a Save the Children representative in an apparent carjacking attempt on the heavily traveled Abeche-Adre corridor. With banditry rising in eastern Chad, EUFOR/MINURCAT's ability to pr [...]
2008-05-06 16:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PGOV CD MARR MOPPS CT SU
08NDJAMENA228NEW SRSG FOR MINURCAT/EAST CHAD GIVES AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) The PRM Chad Program Officer met with UN Mission to the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) Police Commissioner Antero Lopes to discuss the status of MINURCAT,s deployment. The deployment has been delayed several months but seems to be finally picking up speed under the current [...]
2008-05-22 09:01:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MARR EAID UN EU SU CD
08NDJAMENA237CHAD: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR CONTACT INFORMATION
[...] (SBU) Per reftel request, the following is updated information on names, titles and contact numbers for leading government officials. Head of Government Last name/Family name: Youssouf First name: Saleh Abbas Conventional usage: Youssouf Saleh Abbas Formal Title: Prime Minister Office tel [...]
2008-05-29 16:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL CD
08NDJAMENA238CHAD RESPONSE: CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since reopening its embassy in N'djamena in 2006, China's engagement with Chad has focused on responding to a variety of needs expressed by the Chadian government. Among the focus areas of Sino-Chadian cooperation are social services, energy, infrastructure, and military assistan [...]
2008-05-29 17:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG PREL CD
08NDJAMENA239CHAD: LEAHY VETTING
[...] Embassy N'djamena has reviewed mission records and found no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the following individuals, who are members of Chad's Anti-Terrorist (PSI) Battalion: Battalion Commander: Amir Akouri Mery Battalion Commander: Nassour Makine Chete B [...]
2008-06-03 11:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC MARR PHUM PINR CD
08NDJAMENA248THE FIRST 30 DAYS: CHAD'S NEW "GOVERNMENT OF
[...] (SBU) In its first month in office, Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas's new "government of National reconciliation" has brought key former opposition figures into the cabinet; welcomed the reformed opposition coalition back to participation in the electoral reform process; seen the Commissio [...]
2008-06-05 13:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM EFIN ECON SU LY CD
08NDJAMENA259UK AMBASSADOR TO CHAD SHOULD VISIT CHAD REGULARLY TO
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE: SEE PARA 6. 2. (SBU) THE UK AMBASSADOR TO CHAD, WHO IS RESIDENT AS HIGH COMMISSIONER IN YAOUNDE, SHOULD VISIT CHAD REGULARLY TO REINFORCE BOTH THE UN AND EU PKO MISSIONS HERE. A REGULAR VISIT BY UK AMBASSADOR WOULD SERVE USG INTERESTS BY DEMONSTRATING BROA [...]
2008-06-20 08:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM UK EU UN CD
08NDJAMENA262CHAD: RESPONSE TO GUANTANAMO CASE
[...] On May 15, the MFA sent a diplomatic note to the Embassy requesting the release of alleged Chadian national currently under DOD control at Guantanamo. Paragraph 2 contains the summary of the note. Post will pouch a copy of the note in French to Department. 2. Begin text of diplomatic note: [...]
2008-06-23 16:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER CD
08NDJAMENA274CHAD'S LATEST "MADHI MOVEMENT" IN CENTRAL PART OF
[...] (U) The Chad Government is reporting that its security forces crushed a violent religious extremist movement led by a self-proclaimed "Madhi" (spiritual leader) centered in the town of Kouni in south-central Chad, after peaceful efforts to dissuade the "Madhi" to moderate his rhetoric and thre [...]
2008-07-03 16:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PTER SOCI ASEC CD
08NDJAMENA275THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL
[...] Per reftel, Embassy N'Djamena assesses that UN efforts regarding SEA and TIP in MINURCAT in Chad have been completely successful and that MINURCAT has worked actively and effectively to prevent and respond to SEA and TIP in its area of responsibility in Chad. 2. Host government and popular p [...]
2008-07-07 08:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO PHUM UN SE KCRM KWMN CD
08NDJAMENA276SRSG SEEKS CHANGES TO MINURCAT MANDATE TO PREPARE -- FOR EXPANDED UN PKO TO REPLACE EUFOR IN CHAD, CAR.
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE: SEE PARA 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: SRSG Victor Angelo briefed UNSC member Chiefs of Mission July 3 on the upcoming report of the UNSYG on the UN Mission to Chad and CAR. He requested that UNSC member Chiefs of Mission alert capitals and PermReps of the changes [...]
2008-07-07 12:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO PREF PHUM UN EU LY CT CD SU
08NDJAMENA279CHAD: AGOA DELEGATION INFORMATION
[...] (U) According to the Chadian Ministry of Commerce, Chad's delegation to the AGOA forum is as follows: - Mr. Mahamat Abdoulaye Mahama, Minister of Commerce - Mr. Djimadoumbaye Madibaye, Director of Commerce - Mr. Daouda Tabanda, Advisor to the Minister of Commerce - Mr. Mahamat Saleh Al-Khali [...]
2008-07-07 16:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENIV EFIN ETRD CD
08NDJAMENA288 HARD TIMES: CHAD NEEDS USG HELP TO MEND FENCES
[...] (U) This is an action message: See para 15. ------------ Summary: ------------ 2. (SBU) Chad's new Prime Minister believes that the World Bank already has unfairly and unilaterally decided at the highest level to end its relationship with Chad in the petroleum sector, which would be [...]
2008-07-14 13:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EFIN IMF IBRD EPET ETRD CD
08NDJAMENA29HABRE TRIAL: "LET IT BE MEANINGFUL AND ACCESSIBLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador, Human Rights Watch Advocacy Director Reed Brody stressed the need for the trial of former Chadian President Hissein Habre to be meaningful and accessible to Chadians. Human Rights Watch is urging Senegal to speed up and simplify the process lead [...]
2008-01-14 12:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM CD
08NDJAMENA292FORMIN FAKI SAYS GOC SEEKS BIGGER UN
[...] (C) FORMIN Faki told Ambassador July 14 that although Chad was committed to the Dakar Accord process, the GOC was becoming less confident in the "practicability" of implementation of the process's key piece -- military observers along the Chad-Sudan borders to identify violations by governmen [...]
2008-07-15 15:05:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MARR KPKO UN EU
08NDJAMENA299MINURCAT - SRSG SEEKS USG SUPPORT TO KEEP IT IN
[...] (U) This is an Action Message: See Para 6. 2. (C) SRSG Victor Angelo (PROTECT) asked me yesterday in confidence yesterday for USG assistance regarding the renewal of MINURCAT,s mandate, required before 25 September. Angelo asked for USG help (A) in overcoming reticence within the UN bure [...]
2008-07-18 10:48:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF MARR KPKO UN EU FR SU CD
08NDJAMENA325SCENESETTER FOR SE WILLIAMSON VISIT TO CHAD
[...] (SBU) CHAD UNDER PRESSURE: SPECIAL ENVOY FOR SUDAN WILLIAMSON'S VISIT TO N'DJAMENA COMES AS THE RAINY SEASON LULL MASKS CONTINUING TENSION ALONG THE CHAD-SUDANESE BORDER, AS CHADIAN REBELS WHO OPERATE FROM OF SUDAN SANCTUARIES ARE HAMPERED BY WEATHER AND TERRAIN UNFAVORABLE TO THE CHADIAN STY [...]
2008-08-04 14:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON UN EU SU LY KPKO CD
08NDJAMENA334LIBYAN AMBASSADOR BRIEFS ON TRIPOLI'S "TRILATERAL
[...] (C) Libyan Ambassador Emhemmed Shlback briefed me on Libya,s recent &Trilateral Initiative8 to bring peace between Chad and Sudan August 5. Shlback said that Qaddafi believed that the time was now ripe to try to bring the two feuding leaders back to the more productive relationship they once [...]
2008-08-06 10:53:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF UNAUS EU SU LY FR CD
08NDJAMENA336LIBYAN AMBASSADOR BRIEFS ON TRIPOLI?S
[...] (C) Libyan Ambassador Emhemmed Shlback briefed me on Libya?s recent ?Trilateral Initiative? to bring peace between Chad and Sudan August 5. Shlback said that Qaddafi believed that the time was now ripe to try to bring the two feuding leaders back to the more productive relationship they once [...]
2008-08-06 15:31:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF UN EU SU LY FR CD
08NDJAMENA34DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR MR. PIERRE-RICHARD PROSPER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-15 15:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA CD
08NDJAMENA374CHAD AND THE WORLD BANK AGREE TO TRY A RENEWED
[...] (SBU) THE VISIT TO CHAD AUGUST 24-25 OF WORLD BANK VP FOR AFRICA OBIAGELI ESEKWESILI APPEARS TO HAVE LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR A RECONCILIATION BETWEEN CHAD AND THE BANK, AFTER AN ESTRANGEMENT OF SOME SIX MONTHS, BUT IT WILL COST CHAD SOME USDOLS 60-70 MILLION IN EARLY DEBT REPAYMENT, WHICH WILL [...]
2008-08-28 15:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON IBRD ETRD EPET IMF PGOV CM CD
08NDJAMENA381CHAD CHRONICLE: AUGUST 2008
[...] INVESTIGATION INTO THE JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2008 EVENTS: PRESIDENT DEBY SAYS HE WILL "FOLLOW UP" RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE REPORT. THE COMMISSION INVESTIGATING THE EVENTS OF JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2008 SUBMITTED ITS REPORT TO PRESIDENT DEBY ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 5. IN RECEIVING THE REPORT, PRESIDENT D [...]
2008-09-02 17:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON EFIN IBRD PHUM UN LY CD
08NDJAMENA382EUFOR FINDS A FOLLOW-ON FORCE: UNPKO PLANNING
[...] (SBU) Summary. UN Peace Keeping chief Edmond Mulet told Chad-based diplomats that President Deby had endorsed an expanded MINURCAT designed to replace EUFOR in Chad next March. A 6,000 strong Chapter Seven PKO would be 25 percent larger than the total strength of EUFOR plus MINURCAT I, and wo [...]
2008-09-03 09:19:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALCD KPKO PREL CT PGOV SU LY
08NDJAMENA384LIBYAN AMBASSADOR RESPONDS TO USG OFFER TO BE
[...] (C) I met with Libyan Ambassador Shlback on Thursday, August 14. He said he wanted to respond to my request for Tripoli's thinking on how the United States might usefully support Libya's recent "Trilateral Initiative" to bring peace between Chad and Sudan. He said that he had spoken to Dr. A [...]
2008-09-03 13:17:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL LY SU FR EU IR IS SA ER CD
08NDJAMENA387REQUEST FOR AUHORIZATION FOR CHIEF OF MISSION TO BE ABSENT
[...] Request authorization for Ambassador Louis J. Nigro, Jr. to be absent from Chad from September 15 until October 20. 2. Reasons: Rest and Recreation Travel for 2008 and AF COM Conference. 3. Acting DCM Robert S. Gribbin will be Charge d'affaires, a.i. NIGRO [...]
2008-09-04 08:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAPER CD
08NDJAMENA39CLAMPDOWN ON CHAD'S INDEPENDENT VOICES AS SUDAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Chad is ratchetting up hostility against Sudan and displaying less tolerance for criticism. Human rights activists have noted a deterioration in the overall human rights situation: targets of the clampdown include radio and print journalists, a human rights ac [...]
2008-01-18 14:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL CD SU
08NDJAMENA396 THERE WILL BE BLOOD: A RAINY-SEASON
[...] (C) Chadian rebels nearly took the capital last February and attacked in force again in the east in June. The rebellion's order of battle has changed since then, with the Zaghawa RFC suffering major defections and a new "Quadruple Alliance" of UFDD, FSR, UFCD, and UFDD/F replacing the old "Tri [...]
2008-09-05 11:45:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR MASS PREF ASEC
08NDJAMENA40 CHAD: UPDATE ON EUFOR/MINURCAT IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary. Chadian Foreign Minister Allam-mi told diplomats January 16 that Chad welcomed EUFOR/MINURCAT for the development dividend that the force was expected to bring and stressed that the force had "no hidden agenda to destabilize a neighbor." Although Allam-mi assured diplomats that [...]
2008-01-18 14:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSCR CD CT SU PREF PREL
08NDJAMENA411CHAD CHRONICLE: SEPT 8-12, 2008
[...] FOLLOWING SIGNATURE ON AUGUST 18, 2008 OF A PROTOCOL ANNEXED TO THE SIRTE ACCORD, 22 OFFICERS FROM THE REBEL "RASSEMBLEMENT DES FORCES DE CHANGEMENT" (RFC) ARRIVED IN NDJAMENA TO BEGIN REINTEGRATION INTO GOVERNMENT SERVICE. THE DELEGATION WAS LED BY COLONEL ISAACK BACHAR TOGOU, RFC'S DEFENSE CO [...]
2008-09-15 09:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA413ASMARA CONTACT GROUP MTG ON CHAD/SUDAN: READ OUT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-15 14:58:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL SU CD LY KPKO ER SG UN
08NDJAMENA414ABSENCE OF AMBASSADOR LOUIS J. NIGRO, JR.
[...] Ambassador Louis J. Nigro will be absent from post from September 15 to October 20 for Rest and Recreation Travel and AF COM Conference. Acting DCM Robert E. Gribbin will be Charge d'affaires, a.i. 2. ITINERARY IS AS FOLLOWS: SEPTEMBER 15: 11:15 PM DPT NDJAMENA VIA AF-881 SEPTEMB [...]
2008-09-15 16:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT
08NDJAMENA416MINURCAT UPDATE
[...] (C) SRSG Angelo reported that following the signing of the MOU last month, he anticipates the issuance, perhaps later this week, of the implementing decree that will assign and deploy Chadian police to the east. Meanwhile MINURCAT police personnel are deployed throughout the east in preparation [...]
2008-09-16 09:18:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PHUM CD SU UN
08NDJAMENA431CHAD'S CONFUSED FINANCES
[...] (C) Summary. IMF and Chad are on the verge of agreeing to an interim program that should lead back to a regular formal monitoring program in 2009. IMF rep Karangwa said new Finance Minister Ngoulou has the talent for the job, but is unproven in the rough and tumble politics of Chad's money mana [...]
2008-09-23 08:06:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL ECON CD
08NDJAMENA438GOVERNMENT OF CHAD EASTERN RELIEF EFFORTS - SMOKE,
[...] (C) The head of Chadian relief and multinational force coordination for the east advised that his priorities included smoothing the way for MINURCAT and EUFOR, plus helping IDPs return home. He thought that rebel recruitment in the camps would diminish as MINURCAT and Chadian policemen deploy [...]
2008-09-24 15:19:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KPKO REFPAN PGOV UN CD
08NDJAMENA439CHAD: CHARGE PRESSES MINISTER ON RECRUITMENT/CHILD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Charge met September 24 with newly appointed Chadian Minister of Human Rights H.E. Abderaman Djasnabaille to press the Minister on human rights problems, specifically on child recruitment. Djasnabaille welcomed continued dialogue with the U.S. and the international community on [...]
2008-09-25 14:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL CD
08NDJAMENA441CHAD CHRONICLE: SEPT 15-26, 2008
[...] THERE WAS MUCH PRESS DISCUSSSION DURING THE WEEK REGARDING REPLACEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN PEACEKEEPING FORCE BY AN EXPANDED UNITED NATIONS PRESENCE. DESPITE GIVING SPACE TO OXFAM CRITICISMS SAYING THAT NO IMPROVEMENT OF THE SECURITY SITUATION HAS BEEN OBSERVED ON THE GROUND AS WELL AS OXFAM'S ALLE [...]
2008-09-26 11:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA451CHAD CHRONICLE: SEPT 29 - OCT 3, 2008
[...] EDUCATION -------------- SCHOOLS RESUMED ON OCTOBER 01, 2008. HOWEVER, REGISTRATION IS VERY SLOW AND SOME CLASSROOMS ARE NOT READY FOR STUDENTS. REPORTEDLY MANY PARENTS FIND IT DIFFICULT TO PAY SCHOOL FEES FOR CHILDREN IN ADDITION TO BUYING UNIFORMS AND SCHOOL MATERIALS. A GROUP OF UNIV [...]
2008-10-03 09:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA459CHAD: MFA REACTION TO AFRICOM UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 17:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PREL CD
08NDJAMENA460DEMARCHE DELIVERED: KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 17:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UN UNGA CD
08NDJAMENA461EUFOR - POISE AND PROMISE IN CHAD'S TROUBLED EAST
[...] (C) Summary. The European Peace Keeping Force (EUFOR) in eastern Chad is operational and robust. Well equipped with APCs, tracked vehicles and helicopters, but even resorting to horses during te height of the rains, EUFOR patrols circulate egularly throughout the operational zone. Troopsassure [...]
2008-10-10 08:22:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF EU UN KPKO CD CT SU
08NDJAMENA466CHAD CHRONICLE: Oct 6-10
[...] ECONOMY ------------------------------------- TO CELEBRATE THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE CHAD/CAMEROON OIL PIPELINE, THE CHADIAN GOVERNMENT ORGANIZED A THREE DAY CONFERENCE DUBBED "CHAD INTERNATIONAL OIL, MINING AND ENERGY"(CIOME 2008) WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF ATTRACTING INVESTOR [...]
2008-10-10 11:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA467AGOA 2008 ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - CHAD
[...] Per REFTEL, Embassy N'djamena submits the following updated AGOA eligibility information in the requested format. 2. Country: Chad Current AGOA Status: Eligible 3. Country Background: Chad's current estimated population is about 9.4 million and the GDP is estimated to be about $5 billio [...]
2008-10-14 11:53:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON CD
08NDJAMENA477PEACEKEEPING IN CHAD: MINURCAT UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-15 13:57:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO CD SU UN
08NDJAMENA478BRIEFING THE AFRICAN UNION MISSION
[...] (C) Summary. I advised the visiting African Union mission members whose mandate is to find ways to reduce tension between Chad and Sudan that the prospects for improved relations between the two capitals were marginal, probably only cosmetic, pending the outcome of projected fighting with rebe [...]
2008-10-15 14:01:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF AU CD SU
08NDJAMENA481CHAD CHRONICLE: Oct 13-17
[...] MR. ALAIN LE ROY, UN DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR PEACKEEPING OPRTATIONS, MET WITH PRESIDENT DEBY ON OCTOBER 14. SPEAKING TO THE PRESS AFTER THE MEETING, MR. LE ROY DECLARED THAT THE AIM OF HIS VISIT WAS TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF THE MINURCAT, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO TAKE OVER FROM EUFOR ON MARCH [...]
2008-10-17 10:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA491SRSG ANGELO ON MINURCAT CURRENT AND FUTURE:
[...] (C) UN SRSG Angelo told Ambassador October 21 that MINURCAT I was up to 750 of its authorized 900 personnel; that it was about to deploy the first of 450 Chadian police and gendarmes it has trained along with their UNPOL mentors to refugee camps in eastern Chad; and that Chadian President De [...]
2008-10-23 13:13:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN PKO MARR PINR SU LY FR EU CD
08NDJAMENA493 WORLD BANK TEAM IN CHAD VISIT SEEKS STRONG
[...] (C) A World Bank "technical" team is in Chad for a two-week visit to conduct a dialogue with the government designed to lead to a fuller resumption of ties and activities, but much will depend on the GOC's willingness and ability to meet minimum Bank criteria. The team will probe the GOC's c [...]
2008-10-27 16:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ECON ETRD PHUM CD
08NDJAMENA494FRENCH SEE RESPITE FROM EARLY REBEL ASSAULT,
[...] (C) The French here doubt that Chad rebels, discouraged and disunited, will attack in force before the New Year, and believe that of the rebel formations, only the Ouaddaian UFCD group led by Hassabalah was stronger than in February. Intra- Chadian diplomacy had undermined the Erdimi's Zaghaw [...]
2008-10-27 16:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MARR UN SU LY FR ASEC CD
08NDJAMENA500MORE MINURCAT TRAINED GENDDARMES AND POLICE
[...] (U) DCM attended the October 28 graduation parade for 111 Chadian policewomen (and men) assigned to MINURCAT's DIS (Integrated Security Detachment) police force. Under the joint field direction of MINURCAT and their Chadian commanders, these graduates of the specialized UN training course are [...]
2008-10-28 15:41:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PREF PGOV PHUM CD
08NDJAMENA501SRSG BRIEFS ON MINURCAT II AND GROWING INSTABILITY
[...] (C) SRSG Victor Angelo told AMB and DCM Oct 28 that his negotiations with the GOC regarding the composition and mandate for a reinforced MINURCAT II were progressing satisfactorily, but that he still needed to convince some in UN HQ in New York regarding his own conception of the reconfigured [...]
2008-10-29 11:11:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF MARR KPKO PINR PGOV UN SU CD
08NDJAMENA508LIBYAN TO FLY CHAD AND SUDANESE AMBASSADORS TO
[...] (C) Libyan Ambassador Emhemmed Shlback told Ambassador October 30 that the GOL would facilitate the return of a Chadian Ambasador to Khartoum and a Sudanese Ambassador to Ndjamena by bringing a special plane from Libya to Chad November 4. The plane, with Amb Shlback on board if necessary tak [...]
2008-10-31 11:30:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF LY SU CD
08NDJAMENA509IMF DELEGATION TO VISIT CHAD AS "STAFF MONITORED
[...] (SBU) IMF RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPH KARANGWA TOLD AMBASSADOR OCTOBER 30 THAT THE IFI WILL SEND AN "OVERSIGHT DELEGATION" TO CHAD EARLY NEXT MONTH EVEN THOUGH THE FUND'S AMBITIOUS PLAN TO PUT CHAD ON A "STAFF MANAGED PROGRAM" FOR THE SECOND HALF OF 2008 HAS FAILED. THE REASON FOR THE FA [...]
2008-10-31 11:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PREL PGOV IMF IBRD MASS US CD
08NDJAMENA510EU WORKING TO KEEP CHAD ON TRACK FOR 2009
[...] (C) The Chief European Union Representative in Chad believes that the electoral reform process that he is spearheading can result as planned in communal/legislative elections in 2009, but that success is by no means assured at this point. The EU Ambassador believes that enough momentum has de [...]
2008-10-31 11:30:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PREF EU PINR IBRD EIB CD
08NDJAMENA511DAKAR CONTACT GROUP MEETING SET FOR NDJAMENA
[...] (U) Embassy received a diplomatic note on October 30 from the Chadian Foreign Ministry advising that the 6th ministerial meeting of the contact group charged with implementing the Dakar Accord of 13 March 2008 between Chad and Sudan would meet in Ndjamena on November 15. The ministerial meeti [...]
2008-10-31 11:31:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF CD SU
08NDJAMENA514 GTMO DETAINEE RETURN TO CHAD?
[...] (S/NF). Summary. Post believes that the question of returning a Chadian from GTMO to Ndjamena needs to be fully coordinated inter-agency and with some thought for the consequences in terms expanding the terrorist threat aimed at Americans in Chad. On the basis of information available to us no [...]
2008-11-07 08:46:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER ASEC CD
08NDJAMENA515CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA
[...] Embassy has received the following message for President-elect Obama from President Deby. Original will be forwarded by diplomatic pouch. Unofficial translation from the French follows. 2. His Excellency Mr. Barrack Obama, President elect of the United States Mr. President, With gre [...]
2008-11-07 09:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP CD
08NDJAMENA516CHAD CHRONICLE: NOV 3-7
[...] US ELECTION 2008 --------------------------------------------- -------- --- "THE WHITE HOUSE PAINTED BLACK" SAID L'OBSERVATEUR NEWSPAPER ABOUT THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA. SEVERAL ARTICLES FOCUSED ON HOW OBAMA WON THE ELECTION AND THE AMERICAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM. THE HEADLINE PIECE CONCLUDE [...]
2008-11-07 11:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA517CHADIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES COMPLAIN GOC NOT
[...] (SBU) The main association of Chadian opposition parties, the CPDC, complained to the Ambassador that the GoC is not implementing the August 13 Accord (the electoral reform agreement signed in August 2007) in good faith, and that therefore credible elections could not be held in 2009. They m [...]
2008-11-07 11:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF EU FR AU UN CD
08NDJAMENA518FRENCH SUPPORT COORDINATION ON UN FOLLOW-ON
[...] (SBU) EMBASSY SUPPORTS THE DEPARTMENT'S EFFORTS TO COORDINATE WITH THE FRENCH ON CHAD POLICY IN GENERAL AND ON PKO ISSUES IN PARTICULAR. 2. (SBU) FROM OUR PERCH HERE, THE FOLLOWING SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS KEY OBJECTIVES OF SUCH COORDINATION REGARDING THE UN FOLLOW-ON FORCE (MINURCAT II) [...]
2008-11-10 10:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PGOV PKO PREF PREL FR CD
08NDJAMENA519 WORLD BANK ENDS CHAD VISIT ON HIGH NOTE, POINTING TOWARD
[...] (SBU) The World Bank delegation finished its visit to Chad on a high note, if not the highest possible note, this week. In a presentation to the diplomatic corps November 7 by the GOC Ministers of Finance and Economy and the Bank delegation head, the visit was portrayed as "positive" and "co [...]
2008-11-10 13:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL EPET IBRD UN IMF PGOV FR CD
08NDJAMENA520CHAD - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MAURITANIAN COUP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-12 11:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL USAU CD
08NDJAMENA521CHAD: DEMARCHE DELIVERED - UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-12 11:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UN CD
08NDJAMENA524EU READOUT OF FIRST DAY OF DAKAR ACCORD TECHNICAL TALKS IN
[...] (SBU) The EU Special Envoy for Sudan and Eastern Chad, AMB Torben Brylle, gave us NOV 13 a readout on the first day of the technical military experts talks that took place on NOV 12. We inform addressees of its content in paras 2-5, below. 2. (SBU) The NOV 12 meeting was cut short and s [...]
2008-11-13 10:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL LY SU KPKO UN AU EU CD
08NDJAMENA526CHAD CHRONICLE: Nov 10-14
[...] CHAD-SUDAN RELATIONS AND REGIONAL COOPERATION ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- ----- ---CHAD AND SUDAN EXCHANGED AMBASSADORS DURING THE WEEK. 2008. CHADIAN AMBASSADOR TO SUDAN, BAHARADINE HAROUN, WENT TO KHARTOUM ON A LIBYAN FLIGHT AND SUD [...]
2008-11-14 11:16:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA527MINURCAT-TRAINED CHADIAN POLICE AND GENDARMES
[...] USAID OFDA Field Officer reported from Eastern Chad on the status of the deployment of the DIS (Integrated Security Detachments),the Chadian police and gendarmes trained by MINURCAT to provide security inside the refugee camps in Eastern Chad, to the field. 2. As of November 7, some 430 of [...]
2008-11-14 11:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF PHUM MARR KPKO UN CD
08NDJAMENA528 CHAD: TIP WATCH INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] This message provides responses to the questions posed in para 6(O) of Ref A. a) Finalizing and Enacting Draft Law on Child Trafficking: no progress; the draft legislation has yet to emerge from the Ministry of Justice b) Increasing Efforts to Arrest, Prosecute, and Convict Traffickers [...]
2008-11-17 08:16:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG CD
08NDJAMENA53DARFUR REBEL BAKHIT PREVIEWS NEW REBEL UNIFICATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese rebel Adam Bakhit informed N'Djamena Emboffs January 18 that he and his associates were forming a "united front" encompassing five rebel factions, with participants from SLM/Unity; SLM (Khamis Abdullah); JEM (Bahr Idriss); NMRD (Abdel-Karim) and URFF. Bakhit criticized [...]
2008-01-25 12:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SU CD
08NDJAMENA530CHAD OPPOSITION, PESSIMISTIC ABOUT ELECTION
[...] (C) The leaders of the main opposition parties told AMB November 12 that they are increasingly pessimistic that legislative and communal elections will be held in 2009, primarily because, absent external pressure, they say that President Deby has no real interest in electoral reform or the ho [...]
2008-11-17 13:36:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF UN EU SU CD
08NDJAMENA531AMB BECHIR SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR "HIS"
[...] (C) Chadian Ambassador to the U.S. Bechir told AMB and DCM November 14 that the opportunity was ripe for the incoming Obama administration to engage President Deby at a senior level to craft an end to the Darfur/Chad crisis. Bechir described his own role as Chad interlocutor for dialogue with [...]
2008-11-17 13:36:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SU LY US CD
08NDJAMENA532CONTACT GROUP MTG IN NDJAMENA MAINTAINS DAKAR
[...] (C) The November 15 Meeting of the Contact Group for implementation of the Dakar Accord achieved its core objectives of furthering confidence-building between Chad and Sudan, and maintaining the CG's deliberate progress toward a border monitoring and observation mission. On the ground there wa [...]
2008-11-17 14:15:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PKO UNAUS AU SU LY CD
08NDJAMENA533POTENTIAL VISIT OF MRS. CINDY MCCAIN TO CHAD
[...] (SBU) Embassy N,Djamena has learned from AF/C that Mrs. Cindy McCain intends to visit Chad December 1-4, 2008 on a private, humanitarian mission. We would like some clarification so that we may be as supportive of this visit as possible. Below are questions to which we request answers. (a [...]
2008-11-17 14:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PREF PHUM ASEC AMGT AFIN UN CD
08NDJAMENA534IMF DELEGATION IN NDJAMENA TO PURSUE THE FUND'S
[...] (SBU) The head of the current visiting IMF delegation told the Ambassador Nov 12 that the visit was aimed at helping Chad get to the budgetary performance point at which the IMF could hope to put a Staff-Monitored Program in place. The IMF wanted to help Chad's public finance team craft a re [...]
2008-11-17 15:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN IMF PGOV PREL US IBRD MASS CD
08NDJAMENA539CHAD - HAGUE ADOPTION CONVENTION HOME-STUDY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-19 06:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKOCI CVIS CASC CMGT
08NDJAMENA54DARFUR REBEL BAKHIT PREVIEWS NEW REBEL UNIFICATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese rebel Adam Bakhit informed N'Djamena Emboffs January 18 that he and his associates were forming a "united front" encompassing five rebel factions, with participants from SLM/Unity; SLM (Khamis Abdullah); JEM (Bahr Idriss); NMRD (Abdel-Karim) and URFF. Bakhit criticized [...]
2008-01-25 12:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SU CD
08NDJAMENA541SUDAN REBEL RECRUITMENT SURGE IN REFUGEE CAMPS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-19 11:51:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV PREL MARR KPKO KTIP UNAUS CD
08NDJAMENA543CHAD: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] Based on the narratives of other African countries in the 2007 reports (there was no Chad narrative),post has complied the following report for Chad for 2008. 2. During 2008 Chad experienced several incursions by anti-regime rebel forces aimed at taking power. These military confrontation [...]
2008-11-20 07:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER ASEC CD
08NDJAMENA546 FOREIGN MINISTER CITES CHADIAN DIPLOMATIC AND
[...] (C) Chadian Foreign Minister Faki told Ambassador and DCM November 19 that he attributed last week's Dakar Contact Group meeting's success to incremental steps taken during the past six months to repair Chad's relations with Sudan, but cautioned that more needed to be done, especially de-fangin [...]
2008-11-20 11:50:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL
08NDJAMENA547IMF HOLDS OUT HOPE FOR CHAD, BUT INSISTS ON FISCAL
[...] (SBU) The November 18 debrief to the diplomatic community by the visiting IMF delegation tracked what delegation head Sukhwinder Singh had told Ambassador earlier (Ref A). The IMF is trying to persuade the GoC to prepare and live within budgets that are sustainable without oil revenue, in m [...]
2008-11-20 15:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN IMF PGOV PREL US IBRD MASS CD
08NDJAMENA548CHAD - OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-21 08:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA IS PA CD
08NDJAMENA55CHAD GOVERNMENT NOT ORDERING SUMMARY EXECUTIONS
[...] (C/NF) Summary: ICRC Chief told Ambassador January 23 that rumors of summary executions of rebels taken prisoner in recent fighting in Eastern Chad by government forces were exaggerated. ICRC Chief said that there was some evidence of abuse of POWs, including executions on the battlefield "in [...]
2008-01-25 13:15:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MASS PGOV PHUM PREL SU CD
08NDJAMENA55663RD UNGA - CHAD - DEMARCHE TO INCREASE PLENARY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 15:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDUNGA MNUC PARM PREL CD
08NDJAMENA567CHAD - THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT
[...] This message responds to Ref A request for an update on measures to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and trafficking in persons (TIP) involving UN peacekeeping personnel in Chad. 2. MINURCAT, the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad, now has 863 personnel, of whic [...]
2008-12-03 16:38:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO PREL PHUM UN CD CT
08NDJAMENA57CHAD: NO STRONG VIEWS ON LIBYAN TSCTP MEMBERSHIP
[...] (U) DCM raised the question of Libyan membership in the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) December 28 with Youssef Saleh Abbas, the President's International Relations Advisor. Abbas said that he didn't see any problems in principle, and suggested that this was an item which t [...]
2008-01-29 07:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR PINS PREL PTER CD
08NDJAMENA571CHAD AMB UPBEAT ON REBEL THREAT AND CHAD-SUDAN
[...] (C) Chad Ambassador to the U.S. Adam Bachir told Ambassador and DCM December 1 that he would carry a letter from President Deby to President-Elect Obama's Chicago Transition Office proposing a meeting in DC between the two Presidents after January 20, 2009, to discuss regional security issues. [...]
2008-12-04 15:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR LY SU PREF CD
08NDJAMENA573CHAD - TWO KEY ELECTION-RELATED LAWS PASSED BY
[...] (SBU) The process leading up to future elections is proceeding in a typically desultory, Chadian fashion, but it is indeed proceeding. Only one of the seven draft laws sent by the Comite de Suivi to the Government is still stuck in the GOC apparatus, and it is one that the opposition does not [...]
2008-12-11 07:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PREF PINR CD
08NDJAMENA578CHAD - REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] (U) Embassy Ndjamena requests the Department's assistance in vetting eight Chadian police officers who have been nominated for U.S.-sponsored training, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post checks revealed no derogatory information on any of the candidates. 2. (U [...]
2008-12-15 14:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ASEC CD
08NDJAMENA582JEM "FOREIGN SECRETARY" COMMENTS ON ACTIVITIES IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 14, the Justice and Equality Movement's "Foreign Secretary" Bushara Suliman Nour, based in Ndjamena, labeled recent JEM military movements in Darfur as "routine" and "strictly within our areas," but later asserted that JEM could easily attack and control all three st [...]
2008-12-16 12:04:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM MARR KPKO PINR PGOV AU UN SU
08NDJAMENA583DEBY'S TONE MORE CONCILIATORY TOWARD SUDAN AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Deby's December 10th speech marking Freedom and Democracy Day contained a more conciliatory tone toward the Government of Sudan and Chadian rebels than previously, even as he presided over a massive demonstration of the GOC's ongoing military rearmament campaign. De [...]
2008-12-16 15:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM MARR PINR EAID UN SU CD
08NDJAMENA584CHAD - UN'S UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW OF HUMAN
[...] SUMMARY: Three of the four human rights NGOs contacted by Embassy N'Djamena are aware of and have contributed to the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review. Given that the three human rights organizations are not even the major Chadian human rights NGOs, it seems that the mechani [...]
2008-12-17 10:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF UNHRC CHAD
08NDJAMENA598 CHAD: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING
[...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights as of this date by the following individuals nominated for IMET training. 2. For training in ACSS Next Generation Leadership Course, of Jan - Feb 09: LTC Kasto Douri, Jan 1 [...]
2008-12-23 15:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ASEC MASS MOPS PREL PINR PINS CD
08NDJAMENA62FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON CHAD-SUDAN, POWS, CHILD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French Ambassador Foucher told Ambassador January 28 that France regretted that President Deby did not take stronger action or speak out more clearly against mistreatment of POWs and recruitment of child soldiers. He expressed the strong French view that Sudan was far more to bl [...]
2008-01-29 15:55:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SU CD UNSC
08NDJAMENA64CHAD REBEL INCURSION MOVES WESTWARD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chad rebels have moved across the border, bypassed Abeche and are reported to be holding in the Am Dam area southwest of Abeche. There has been no major confrontation with the government, other than aerial bombing by the government on January 28th. The government has moved to f [...]
2008-01-30 17:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PINR CASC MOPS SU CD PINS ASEC
08NDJAMENA65SITREP 1: CHAD REMAINS JITTERY AS REBELS ADVANCE
[...] (SBU) As of 15:10, January 31, the U.S. Embassy is staffed with the following personnel: AMB, A/DCM, OMS, POL/ECON, CONS, IPC, PAO, FMS, FMO, GSO, RSO (2) and DAO, as well as selected locally engaged staff. All other personnel and eligible family members (EFMs) are at standfast at their respe [...]
2008-01-31 15:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PINR CASC MOPS SU CD PINS ASEC
08NDJAMENA66SITREP 2: EVENING IN CHAD IS QUIET BUT ANXIETY
[...] (SBU) As of 2200 local, January 31, the Mission moved to consolidate all official Americans due to continued concern of imminent rebel attacks on N'djamena. Embassy officials and eligible family members are consolidated in three locations: at the Embassy compound; the American school compound [...]
2008-01-31 20:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PINR CASC MOPS SU CD PINS ASEC
08NDJAMENA67SITREP 3: MORNING STARTS CALM IN CHAD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-01 08:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PINR CASC MOPS SU CD PINS ASEC
08NDJAMENA69SITREP 4: CHAD SITUATION AT 1330 ON 1 FEBRUARY
[...] (SBU) N'djamena is still tense but calm. Agence France Presse (AFP) reports that fighting has broken out near Massaguet, 60-90 miles NE of the capital. A few hundred Chadian riot police and various armored tanks have been seen moving about the city. Chadian military aircraft have left the air [...]
2008-02-01 12:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PINR CASC MOPS SU PINS ASEC CD
08NDJAMENA70SITREP 5: FIGHTING ONGOING IN NDJAMENA
[...] (SBU) Sounds of artillery fire and automatic weapons have been heard off-and-on beginning 0845 2 February in N'djemana. Fighting between elements of the Chadian military forces loyal to President Deby and rebel forces continue. The road in front of the presidential palace is closed. There is l [...]
2008-02-02 08:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PINR CASC MOPS SU PINS ASEC CD
08NDJAMENA81JEM REBELS: DEBY'S SAVIOUR AND BUDDING NATIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of the Sudanese rebel group JEM told N'Djamena Emboffs on March 7 that JEM was well on the way to becoming an inclusive Sudanese national movement. They acknowledged that JEM forces had come to the aid of President Deby during the February 2-3 rebel attacks on N'D [...]
2008-03-07 16:48:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF SU CD
08NDJAMENA83GOC ASKS FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE IN DEVELOPMENT FOR EASTERN
[...] (U) AMBASSADOR CALLED MARCH 4 ON YOUSSOUF SALEH ABBAS, PRESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND RECENTLY APPOINTED SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR MINURCAT AND EUFOR IN CHAD, AND AS SUCH, CHIEF OF A NEW GOC AGENCY, THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL FORCES IN CHAD (CON [...]
2008-03-10 13:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF EAID CD EU
08NDJAMENA95CHAD: FISCAL TRANSPARENCY REPORT
[...] Summary: Despite efforts by the World Bank and other donors to improve accountability and transparency in Chad's budget, the country's fiscal transparency has deteriorated since the last fiscal transparency report in 2003. End summary. 2. Chad's national budget is available in print but th [...]
2008-03-17 14:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID PGOV CD
09NDJAENA423MISSION ENDORSES DIS SUPPORT AT UPCOMING UN
[...] (SBU) The UN will host an October 2 pledging conference in Brussels for P5 nations and other donor countries to seek financial support for programs under MINURCAT's Trust Fund. The UN is specifically seeking 21.6 million USD to finance continued training for the Chadian Integrated Security De [...]
2009-09-29 11:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA100USG SHOULD PUSH BRITISH TO ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC
[...] (U) This is an action message: See para 11 below. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The British are considering establishing a small diplomatic presence in Chad, but Canada is planning no mission in the near term, according to visiting British and Canadian diplomats here last week. Th [...]
2009-03-24 09:39:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL AU CD
09NDJAMENA101HUMANITARIAN CONTINGENCY PLANS IN CHAD: LEGAL,
[...] (SBU) The recent expulsion of 13 key NGOs implementing humanitarian assistance programs in Darfur has sparked concern that affected IDPs may consider moving across the border into eastern Chad in order to access established assistance programs targeting the existing population of approximately [...]
2009-03-24 11:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF UN CD SU LY
09NDJAMENA102CHAD STILL FEARS REBELS DESPITE DISUNITY; QATAR
[...] (C) Chad's FORMIN warned Ambassador and DCM 3/23 that the GOC saw strong signs that Khartoum was getting ready to launch its Chad rebel clients based in Darfur across the border into Chad yet again. Moussa Faki Mahamat could not predict when or even if the rebels would actually attack, but e [...]
2009-03-24 13:28:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS AU AL CH SU
09NDJAMENA103TURKEY PLANNING TO OPEN EMBASSY IN CHAD, PERHAPS
[...] (U) Visiting Turkish AMB-Designate to Chad Omur Solendil told AMB March 24 that Turkey was planning to open an Embassy in Chad, perhaps before the end of this year. A political decision had been made in Ankara, Solendil said, but now the funding issue had to be worked out. ----------------- [...]
2009-03-25 10:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV LY SU TU ODIP CD
09NDJAMENA104MINOR GOC CABINET RESHUFFLE SETS STAGE FOR PM TO
[...] (SBU) President Deby and his PM affected a relatively minor shuffle to the cabinet 3/23, which left unchanged the leadership in all critical "power" ministries, including Defense, Foreign Affairs, Interior, Infrastructure, Education, Finance, Justice and others. All four of the former opposit [...]
2009-03-25 12:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ENRG AU CD
09NDJAMENA111MAKING CHAD A PART OF THE SOLUTION IN DARFUR: AN
[...] This is an action message: See para 5 and subsequent. ---------------------------- CHAD MOST AFFECTED BY DARFUR ---------------------------- 2. (SBU) Besides Sudan itself, Chad is the country most affected by the Darfur Crisis. Virtually all Darfuri refugees are in Chad, which also [...]
2009-03-27 13:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM PTER MASS LY SU CT CD
09NDJAMENA113CHAD'S PUBLIC FINANCES (I): PROBLEMS ARE DAUNTING
[...] (SBU) IMF Resident Representative Joseph Karangwa briefed Ambassador March 26 on the current troubled status of Chad's public finances, especially its public revenue management problems, from the IFI perspective. He emphasized Chad's looming budgetary shortfall this year, as oil revenues are [...]
2009-04-01 16:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EPET EFIN IMF IBRD CDB EAID PREL
09NDJAMENA114ROSY SCENARIO?: INSIDER AND OUTSIDER JUDGE CHAD
[...] (C) Two authoritative sources, one a veteran Chadian political figure and Deby counselor, the other the chief intelligence officer for the French military forces here, offered concordant views on the unlikelihood of a major attack by Chad rebels in the near future. National Mediator Abderah [...]
2009-04-01 16:59:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AL
09NDJAMENA115CHAD'S PUBLIC FINANCES (II): SEARCHING FOR
[...] (U) This is an action message. See para 11 below. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Finance Minister Gata Ngoulou told Ambassador and DCM March 30 that Chad's public finances were in serious disarray, but that the budget picture was not yet "disastrous." Ngoulou pointed out that Ch [...]
2009-04-02 11:19:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EPET EFIN IMF IBRD CDB EAID PREL
09NDJAMENA118BEFORE PARLIAMENT, PRIME MINISTER REVIEWS HIS
[...] (U) Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas appeared before Chad's 155-member National Assembly, along with his 41-member Cabinet, March 31, to respond to questions on the successes and challenges of his 11-month old government. The PM, who had received questions posed by parliamentarians in advan [...]
2009-04-02 17:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINS ECON EAGR AU CD
09NDJAMENA120UK REQUEST THAT EMBASSY NDJAMENA PROVIDE WORK
[...] This is an action message -- see para 8. 2. (U) The UK FCO has renewed its request to us to provide work space and services to a UK diplomat to be deployed here for an undetermined length of time (REF A). 3. (SBU) We strongly support a UK diplomatic presence in Chad on a permanent or s [...]
2009-04-06 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ODIP UK EU FR CD
09NDJAMENA121DETAINEE TRANSFER FRAMEWORK WITH CHAD
[...] (U) This is an action message -- See para 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: That the Department provide official translation of texts of diplomatic notes (REF A, Paras nine and ten),and adjust suspense date to reflect date of cable message with that information. 3. (U) N.B.: TAGS for Chad is [...]
2009-04-06 11:28:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER PINR PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA122MINURCAT DEPUTY SRSG ON NEW PKO'S FIRST WEEKS
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT Deputy SRSG Rima Salah briefed the diplomatic community April 1 on MINURCAT's achievements during its first two weeks of existence, as well as future challenges. Salah reviewed UNSCRs 1778 and 1861, which mandates security and protection of international humanitarian workers [...]
2009-04-07 12:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM UN SU CH CD
09NDJAMENA125PLANNING FOR NEW REFUGEES IN CHAD; NGO CAPACITY
[...] (U) Much of the information in this cable was previously transmitted to Department offices by RefEmail. ------------------------------------- NGO PLANS FOR POSSIBLE DARFURI INFLUX ------------------------------------- 2. (U) Ndjamena-based Regional Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) met with [...]
2009-04-08 11:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL PGOV SU UN LY CD
09NDJAMENA128AMBASSADOR PRESSES GOC ON TIP/CHILD SOLDIERS, JEM,
[...] (SBU) This is an Action Request -- please see Para 12. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Ambassador told FORMIN April 10 that he was seeking an audience with President Deby to discuss several issues of capital importance to the US, namely: The need for the GOC to make speedy, concrete p [...]
2009-04-14 15:10:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PHUM MASS KTIP PREF MARR AU
09NDJAMENA129 HUMANITARIAN UPDATE FROM NDJAMENA
[...] (U) This cable constitutes one of a series of weekly updates on the humanitarian situation among Darfur refugees in Chad and Chadian IDPs. ------------------- MINURCAT TAKES ON RESPONSIBILITY FOR HUMANITARIAN SECURITY IN EASTERN CHAD ------------------- 2. (U) Ndjamena-based Refuge [...]
2009-04-14 16:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL PGOV UN SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA131LIBYA RENEWS "TRILATERAL CHAD-SUDAN EFFORT,"
[...] (SBU) Libya is intent on reviving its "trilateral initiative" mediation efforts between Chad and Sudan, starting with eliminating support for proxy rebel groups, as a prelude to helping to solve the Darfur problem, according to Libya's once and current Ambassador to Chad, Greene Saleh Greene [...]
2009-04-15 14:39:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UN SU LY PINR CD
09NDJAMENA132CHAD/SUDAN BORDER VIOLENCE? INDICATORS NEGATIVE
[...] (C) We do not see indications of impending Chad military offensive against Chad rebels based in Sudan at this time, notwithstanding claims made by interlocutors in conversations reported in REFTEL. In the interests of providing perspective to addressees, as well as of correcting factual error [...]
2009-04-16 14:20:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU CD
09NDJAMENA133CHAD: A PUBLISHED BUDGET
[...] (U) The Government of the Republic of Chad makes its annual budget publicly available in print format, issued by the Ministry of Finance's Department of Budget. The government also formally publishes the budget in the GOC Official Journal. The annual budget details revenues by activity and [...]
2009-04-16 15:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL CD
09NDJAMENA135IMF EFFORTS IN CHAD: HITTING EVERY OBSTACLE ON
[...] (SBU) Christian Josz, IMF Deputy Division Chief in the African Department and head of the IMF delegation to start a Staff Monitored Program (SMP) in Chad, briefed the diplomatic corps April 15 on the results of his team's efforts. Josz stated that despite a positive start to his visit, he had [...]
2009-04-17 10:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EPET EFIN IMF IBRD CBD EAID PREL CD
09NDJAMENA137CHAD: EMBASSY NDJAMENA'S TIP COMPLIANCE ACTION
[...] (SBU) In order to help the Chad Government to avoid sanctions because of TIP provisions, we are engaged in executing an action plan, which we first informed Department in REF A. 2. (SBU) Background: GOC Actions to Date: The most recent in the GOC's efforts to address trafficking in pers [...]
2009-04-20 17:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SU CD
09NDJAMENA139CHAD: AN ELECTORAL HISTORY (1959-2009).
[...] (SBU) A key U.S. goal in Chad involves the success of the August 13 Accord process, which comprises political and electoral reforms leading to credible legislative and local elections in 2010 and similar presidential elections in 2011. The Chadian people have had a variety of national voting [...]
2009-04-21 10:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL PINR CD
09NDJAMENA140GOC OFFERS ITS OWN VERSION OF BUDGET REVISION
[...] (SBU) Finance Minister Gata Ngoulou outlined April 21 for Ambassador the GOC's plan to address the budget revenue shortfall precipitated by the drop in the price of oil, a resource that accounts for 75 percent of the GOC's budget. The GOC will fill the USD 80 million gap between 2009 receipts [...]
2009-04-23 07:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EPET EFIN IMF IBRD CBD EAID PREL CD
09NDJAMENA143SCENESETTER FOR SE GRATION'S MAY 1-3 VISIT TO CHAD
[...] (C) Embassy N'Djamena welcomes your visit to Chad. This message is aimed at providing you with background for use in meeting with Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, and for other requested meetings. It focuses primarily on Chad's role in the Darfur crisis, in regional humanitarian assistan [...]
2009-04-27 14:53:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MASS MARR LY SU CD
09NDJAMENA147SUDAN/CHAD: GOS, JEM AGREE TO REACTIVATE DOHA
[...] (C) The Government of Sudan and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) have agreed to reactivate talks in Doha on Monday evening, May 4, following five sessions between Special Envoy Gration and JEM Chairman Khalil Ibrahim, and numerous calls between Gration and GoS Presidential Advisor Ghazi an [...]
2009-05-03 19:42:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL SU QA LY MOPS CD
09NDJAMENA149CHAD REBEL COLUMNS CROSS INTO SOUTHEAST CHAD FROM
[...] (SBU) CHAD REBELS CROSS THE BORDER: We believe that three or perhaps four columns of Chad rebels have entered southeastern Chad since yesterday, and are likely strung out along the border from points SE of Abeche to the CAR/Sudan/Chad tri-border area, north and south of Goz Beida town. Tota [...]
2009-05-05 13:38:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CD
09NDJAMENA151CHAD UPDATE, 12PM, MAY 6: CHAD GOVERNMENT FORCES
[...] (SBU) CAVEAT: This message is based on a variety of sources, some more reliable than others. We gather information from all sources and try to winnow the chaff from the wheat. Some reports recirculate, gaining apparent momentum from repetition. Some reports are based on rumors or garble f [...]
2009-05-06 11:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA152CHAD'S ELECTORAL REFORM COMMITTEE LAMENTS "LACK OF
[...] (SBU) In several recent meetings with Embassy officers and TDY visitors, members of the Chadian Electoral Reform Committee (ERC) have complained that lack of political will continues to plague preparations for 2010-11 elections in Chad. Lol Mahamat Choua, opposition figure and current Presi [...]
2009-05-06 13:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PINR CD
09NDJAMENA153CHAD UPDATE, AFTERNOON MAY 6: CHAD GOVT AIR FORCE
[...] (SBU) CAVEAT: This message is based on a variety of sources, some more reliable than others. We gather information from all sources and try to winnow the chaff from the wheat. Some reports re-circulate, gaining apparent momentum from repetition. Some reports are based on rumors or garble [...]
2009-05-06 15:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA156CHAD UPDATE, MORNING 5/7: REBELS CONSOLIDATE,
[...] (SBU) CAVEAT: This message presents a composite view of the current situation based on a variety of sources, some more reliable than others, and our best analysis. Some reports re-circulate, gaining apparent momentum from repetition; others are based on rumors or garbled fact. We cite few s [...]
2009-05-07 11:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA160FSN COMMITTEE AND AMERICAN CITIZENS WARDEN
[...] (SBU) On Thursday, May 7, 2009, US Embassy N'Djamena convened separate meetings of the FSN Committee and American citizen wardens to discuss the situation in eastern Chad. The following issues were discussed at these meetings: FSN Committee Meeting 1) RSO briefed FSNs of the rebel situatio [...]
2009-05-07 17:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PREL PGOV AU CD
09NDJAMENA161CHAD UPDATE, 5/8: GOC DEFEATS REBELS DECISIVELY
[...] (SBU) CHAD REBELS STATUS: As of morning May 8, the Chadian military inflicted two decisive defeats on Chad rebels. The rebels appear to have been decisively defeated in May 7 battles south of Am-Dam and later near Am-Timan, inflicting heavy casualties. Remaining rebels are dispersed and in [...]
2009-05-08 11:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA162KHALIL IBRAHIM PRESENTS -- "THE NEW JEM"
[...] (SBU) JEM Chief Dr. Khalil Ibrahim told SE Gration May 2-3 that his recently enhanced and expanded movement was the "New JEM" whose top priority was peace, not conquest. Khalil claimed to represent over 200 Sudanese tribes, offered proof that a number of former commanders of separate rebel m [...]
2009-05-08 13:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF AU LY CD
09NDJAMENA163CHAD UPDATE: FM FAKI'S MAY 9 REPLY TO U.S.
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro issued a demarche to FM Moussa Faki Mahamat May 9 to discourage GoC hot pursuit of remaining Chadian rebels into Sudan; to remind the GoC of the moral high ground that Ndjamena occupied at present; to describe SE Gration's efforts to convince the Sudanese government to [...]
2009-05-10 12:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA165CHAD UPDATE 5/10: GOC TRUMPETS DECISIVE VICTORY
[...] (SBU) MILITARY BALANCE: As of May 10, the Government of Chad (GOC) continues to trumpet its "decisive victory" over Union of Resistance Forces (UFR) rebels in southeastern Chad. On May 6 and 7, Chadian military forces bombed rebel columns near Koukou, Angarana, Kerfi, and Haouish. According [...]
2009-05-10 15:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA166EAC - EMBASSY N'DJAMENA, MAY 11, 2009
[...] (SBU) On May 11, 2009, Ambassador Nigro convened an EAC meeting to discuss the rebel situation in eastern Chad and review decisions made at the previous EAC on May 8. EAC meeting was attended by DCM, RSO, CON, Pol/Mil, DATT, AID, Pol/Econ, MED, IMO and PRM. 2. (SBU) The following assessment [...]
2009-05-11 10:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AU CD PGOV PREL
09NDJAMENA170CHAD UPDATE MAY 11: LIFE RETURNING TO NORMAL ONE
[...] (SBU) RETURN TO NORMAL: Life is returning to normal as the GOC and others continue to assess the impact of the May 4 rebel incursions and plan for the future. MINURCAT has resumed all operations in the east. 2. (SBU) DEBY VISITS TROOPS: President Deby, accompanied by acting Minister of [...]
2009-05-11 16:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA175CEDANT ARMA TOGAE? WHERE CHAD GOES FROM HERE,
[...] (SBU) The invasion of eastern Chad by Chadian rebels from Sudan, their decisive defeat by Chad government forces, and the GOC,s initial reaction to those events last week confirmed a changed balance of power between Chad and Chad rebels and raised questions regarding the GOC's military and d [...]
2009-05-13 09:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF UN SU LY CH IS QA CD
09NDJAMENA177CHAD'S PRESIDENT CONTINUES ANTI-SUDAN STANCE
[...] (SBU) Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno held a rally May 13 in N'Djamena to protest against "Sudanese aggression," given the May 4-7 incursion by Chadian rebels from Sudan. Five times during the President's 15-minute speech, he focused specifically on Sudanese President Omar El Bashir, sayi [...]
2009-05-14 16:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA181HUMANITARIAN UPDATE FROM NDJAMENA REGIONAL REFUGEE
[...] (U) This cable continues a series of regular updates on the humanitarian situation among Darfur and CAR refugees in Chad and Chadian IDPs. This report is from the Accra-based Regional Refugee Coordinator for Resettlement currently in Chad on temporary duty. ------------------------------ Ch [...]
2009-05-16 09:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL PGOV UN SU GH CD
09NDJAMENA184CHAD PLANS TO WITHDRAW FROM AU AND QATARI
[...] (SBU) FORMIN Faki thanked Ambassador May 15 for the USG's public support of Chad during the recent rebel incursion and explained that the GOC was likely to "freeze" or "suspend" participation in AU-sponsored and Qatar-sponsored mediation efforts to normalize Chad-Sudan relations, because of AU [...]
2009-05-18 13:45:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA185CHAD ADMITS MILITARY "HOT PURSUIT" INTO SUDAN,
[...] (SBU) The GOC confirmed publicly May 17 that it had made good last week on its long-standing pledge to exercise "right of hot pursuit" by pursuing fleeing Chad rebels back into Sudan and carrying out air strikes against them. The GOC appears to have displayed some restraint in these operat [...]
2009-05-18 13:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA188USG AND FRIENDS SUPPORTS UNICEF'S EFFORTS ON CHILD
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro and French Ambassador co-hosted a meeting (held in this Embassy) May 19 for key partners and international NGO representatives to discuss the current situation of children affected by armed conflict in Chad and to explore ways in which Chad's international partners inter [...]
2009-05-21 15:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP PREL PGOV PREF SU UN CD
09NDJAMENA190STAND UP AND BE COUNTED: CHAD'S 2009 POPULATION
[...] Summary: Chad's second post-independence population census kicked off May 19 with registration of the President. The census is a necessary precondition for national elections in 2010 and 2011, and will facilitate donor planning for development assistance. The USG has contributed $1.5 million [...]
2009-05-21 16:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KDEM PHUM PREF PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA192STAND UP AND BE COUNTED: CHAD'S 2009 POPULATION
[...] Summary: Chad's second post-independence population census kicked off May 19 with registration of the President. The census is a necessary precondition for national elections in 2010 and 2011, and will facilitate donor planning for development assistance. The USG has contributed $1.5 million [...]
2009-05-21 16:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KDEM PHUM PREF PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA194ESSO LEANS TOWARD ASSISTING GOC ON 2009 BUDGET
[...] (SBU) ESSO-Chad Chief Stephane de Mahieu told Ambassador Nigro May 20 that the oil company was leaning toward agreeing to the GOC's request for flexibility with royalty and tax payments in 2009 by advancing some expected second half-2009 payments to the second quarter, to help the GOC stay on [...]
2009-05-22 12:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PREL EPET EFIN AU SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA195CHAD-SUDAN: GOC SHOULD "SEIZE THE MOMENT" TO
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro and DCM told GOC Ambassador to the U.S. Bechir May 22 that the GOC should "seize the moment" to exploit diplomatically its recent military successes. We acknowledged Bechir's expression of gratitude for the clear USG public position on the rebel attack and told him tha [...]
2009-05-24 14:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MARR MASS SU LY IS CD
09NDJAMENA196JOUBERT TO DEBY: TRANSLATE BATTLEFIELD VICTORY
[...] (C) Visiting French Presidential Advisor Joubert issued a demarche to President Deby and senior aides May 23, urging the GOC to translate its recent victories on the battlefield into diplomatic successes by exercising great care in its approach to Sudan, by reaching out to some of the Chad re [...]
2009-05-25 10:01:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LY SU UN FR PREF PHUM MOPS CD
09NDJAMENA197JEM-SLA/AW ALLIANCE OFFER ON THE TABLE, BUT IN THE
[...] (SBU) JEM and SLA/AW leaders met north of N'Djamena May 22 to discuss forming a political alliance, according to a JEM member who spoke with poloff May 25. SLA/AW leaders told us that that the difference between the secular SLA and the Islamist JEM would likely prevent an alliance, although t [...]
2009-05-26 15:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA200 RISING COST OF LIVING IN CHAD'S CAPITAL
[...] (U) The prices of basic goods in Chad's capital, N'Djamena, have risen significantly over the past year. The consumer price increase is up 15 percent in the twelve-month March 2008 - March 2009 period; prices for basic grains and cereals rose 25 - 30 percent; home rental rates in the capital [...]
2009-05-27 14:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL APER ECON ETRD ELAB EFIN CD
09NDJAMENA203ABSENCE OF AMBASSADOR LOUIS J. NIGRO, JR.
[...] Embassy N'Djamena requests permission for Ambassador Louis J. Nigro, Jr. to be absent from post for personal travel to Helsinki, Finland and Paris, France from June 8, 2009 to June 26, 2009. During the Ambassador's absence, DCM Sue L. Bremner will be in charge. 2. Proposed itinerary is [...]
2009-05-29 09:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER KCOM OTRA CD
09NDJAMENA208CHAD'S DC AMBASSADOR CLAIMS USG NOW HAS "MORE
[...] (U) This is an Action Message -- please see para 8. ---------- KEY POINTS ---------- 2. (C) Key Points are: -- Chad AMB to the US Bechir claims USG support of Chad vs. Sudan following recent rebel attack gave USG "unprecedented leverage" with President Deby; -- Bechir said this w [...]
2009-06-03 14:09:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA211ABSENCE OF AMBASSADOR LOUIS J. NIGRO, JR. - REVISED CONTACT
[...] Per reftels, Post provides the following updated contact information for Ambassador Nigro's personal travel to Finland and France from June 8, 2009 to June 26, 2009. 3. Contact information: June 9: Hotel Palace Etelaranta 10 Helsinki, Finland 00130 Hotel Te [...]
2009-06-04 11:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER KCOM OTRA CD
09NDJAMENA213CHAD COMMITTED TO NEGOTIATED PEACE WITH SUDAN BUT
[...] (SBU) Key Points are: -- FORMIN Faki was effusive in his praise for President Obama's Cairo speech, saying it effectively rebutted extremist and Islamist propaganda; -- President Deby welcomes the opportunity to meet with A/S Carson and SE Gration at AU Tripoli Summit; -- Deby had succ [...]
2009-06-05 10:50:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA214INTRA-CHADIAN DIPLOMACY: REBEL DEFECTIONS
[...] (U) This message has an Action Request for Khartoum -- see para 6. ------------ KHARTOUM 729 ------------ 2. (SBU) Khartoum 729, another of the Embassy's superb reporting and analysis efforts, confirms the potentially decisive impact on the Chad rebellion of the GOC's victory over at [...]
2009-06-08 16:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA216CHADIAN PRESIDENT MAKES MINOR CABINET CHANGES
[...] (U) Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno made slight changes June 6 in his Cabinet, bringing on two new ministers, eliminating one and reassigning other ministers and responsibilities. No top-line officials in major ministries -- Foreign Affairs, Defense, Justice, Interior, Infrastructure, Fina [...]
2009-06-09 07:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON CD
09NDJAMENA223 OBAMA'S SPEECH IN CAIRO RECEIVES WARM WELCOME IN CHAD
[...] (U) The U.S. Embassy in Ndjamena held rebroadcasts June 9 and 10 of President Obama's June 4 Cairo speech. The rebroadcasts were in French and Arabic, respectively, in this barely-majority Muslim country. Reaction was almost uniformly positive, with participants stressing that they hoped to [...]
2009-06-12 08:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KPAO OIIP CD
09NDJAMENA224CHADIAN MILITARY RELEASES REBEL CHILD SOLDIERS TO
[...] (SBU) Defense Attache and local staff attended a June 12 ceremony during which the Chadian military (ANT) handed 84 underage combatants, captured from Chadian rebel units in the course of early May ANT fighting with rebels in Eastern Chad, to UNICEF. That organization will work in coordinati [...]
2009-06-12 11:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM MOPS SU CD
09NDJAMENA230GOC INFORMED OF NEW TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS TIER
[...] Charge d'affaires and Refugee Coordinator met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Moussa Mahamat Dogo June 15 to inform him of the imminent release of the Trafficking in Persons Report and to explain why the GoC had been downgraded to a Tier III ranking. Secretary General Dogo [...]
2009-06-15 14:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM MOPS CD
09NDJAMENA231RED CROSS INQUIRES ABOUT GUANTANAMO RETURNEE
[...] (SBU) This is a guidance request. Please see para 5 below. 2. (S) International Red Cross (ICRC) Director Catherine Deman met with Charge d'affaires, A/DCM and Refcoord June 15 to inquire about the terms of the handover (reported Ref A) of former Guantanamo detainee Yousef al-Qarani (a [...]
2009-06-15 16:17:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETPREL PHUM PTER ASEC CD
09NDJAMENA232UN POLICE ASSESSMENT MISSION TO CHAD REPORTS
[...] Charge d'affaires and Refugee Coordinator received an outbriefing from members of the DPKO Mid-Term UN Police Assessment Mission to Chad June 13, including a generally positive assessment of performance by the DIS (Detachement Integree de Security, the special police force established to prov [...]
2009-06-16 08:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA234MINURCAT CHIEF DESCRIBES POST-EUFOR TROOP
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16, UN Special Representative Victor Angelo da Silva chaired a meeting of diplomatic reps in N'Djamena to address concerns about MINURCAT's peacekeeping activities, including the inability of some contributing states to deploy fully-equipped peacekeeping contingents i [...]
2009-06-16 16:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM SU CT CD
09NDJAMENA235CHAD WEEKLY HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
[...] RefCoord participated in the latest IASC meeting June 9 led by the Humanitarian Coordinator and attended by UNDSS, as well as representatives of humanitarian organizations. DSS reported that crime levels are increasing in eastern Chad as is usual at the beginning of rainy season, with a partic [...]
2009-06-17 08:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA241ELECTORAL REFORM COMMITTEE BLESSES DECREE ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chad's Electoral Reform Committee (Comite de Suivie) met June 17 to respond formally to a Governmental Decree (Decret 621),signed June 6 by President Deby, on the role of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) in enforcing Chad's Electoral Code. Decree 621 see [...]
2009-06-18 06:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA244GOC RELEASES GUANTANAMO RETURNEE AL-QARANI
[...] (C) In the wake of the GoC's June 18 release of former Guantanamo detainee Yousef al-Qarani (aka Mohamed el-Gharani),Charge d'affaires spoke briefly June 19 with Chadian Ambassador to the U.S. Mahamoud Adam Bechir, who had been part of the group of GoC individuals to receive al-Qarani from [...]
2009-06-19 16:21:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER ASEC CD
09NDJAMENA245 JUNE 19 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF FINANCE CLARIFIES STATE
[...] (U) Charge d'Affaires met June 19 with Minister of Finance Gata Ngoulou to discuss Chad's revised 2009 budget, which has been reduced to USD 804 million in revenue and USD 1.7 billion in expenditures. (The initial 2009 budget adopted by Chad's National Assembly in November 2008 forecast reve [...]
2009-06-19 17:19:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EFIN CD
09NDJAMENA247JUNE 20 VIEWING OF CAPTURED CHADIAN REBEL WEAPON
[...] (SBU) FM Moussa Faki Mahamat convoked the diplomatic corps June 20, describing for the hastily-assembled group the June 7 capture by Chadian military units of two Toyota trucks bearing a large stash of weaponry in the vicinity of Bahr Keita in Chad's southeastern Salamat Province. According [...]
2009-06-20 11:57:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL SU CD
09NDJAMENA248ANT SOURCES SAY PSI UNIT TO MOVE FROM DGSSIE CHAIN
[...] (C) Following interventions by Ambassador Nigro and others on Embassy staff (Ref A),four contacts in the Armee Nationale Tchadienne (ANT),including the Chief of Staff to the MOD, have told Defense Attache that the ANT has developed detailed plans to move the Pan-Sahel Initiative (PSI) trai [...]
2009-06-22 11:41:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS PTER CD
09NDJAMENA249CHAD'S DINOSAUR POPULATION DIMINISHED BY ONE
[...] Chad's political class, comprised of an amorphous group of middle-aged bureaucrats and progeny of traditional chiefs representing ethnicities rather than ideologies, and an aging group of weathered politicians affectionately referred to as "the dinosaurs," was recently diminished with the June [...]
2009-06-22 15:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TBIO CD
09NDJAMENA250 CHAD WILL ATTEND IRENA PREPARATORY MEETING IN EGYPT
[...] (U) Following instruction in reftel, Post met with the Director of Energy at the Ministry of Energy, Mbodou Djourab, June 22. The Director confirmed that Chad would attend the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) preparatory meeting to be held in Egypt at the end of this month. Djou [...]
2009-06-23 11:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL APER ECON ETRD ELAB EFIN CD
09NDJAMENA254GOC INFORMED OF USG PRIORITIES AT AU SUMMIT;
[...] (SBU) With FM Moussa Faki Mahamat Faki and most of the Chadian delegation to the AU Summit preparing to depart for Tripoli later today, June 25, Charge d'affaires approached Chadian Ambassador to the U.S. Mahamoud Adam Bechir (who remains in Chad to assist with the June 27-29 visit of S/E Sc [...]
2009-06-25 16:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC OTRA PREL PGOV PHUM ELA KWMN AU CD
09NDJAMENA258CHADIAN OFFICIALS PROMISE COORDINATION ON G/TIP
[...] (SBU) Charge d'affaires delivered G/TIP Tier III Action Plan (Ref A) and elements of the USG's initiative to curb gender-based violence (Ref B) to Chadian officials at the MFA, and to the Minister of Human Rights, on June 26. At both ministries, our Chadian colleagues promised full cooperat [...]
2009-06-26 15:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELA KCRM KWMN KOCI CD
09NDJAMENA259EU SPECIAL ENVOY PURSUES GOC-REBEL DIALOGUE
[...] (C) The EU,s Special Envoy for Africa, Ambassador Georg Lennkh, updated Charge June 26 on his recent efforts to bring the GOC and Chadian rebel groups together to discuss peaceful resolution of their differences. Lennkh said that at least some rebels seemed amenable to meeting with the GOC, [...]
2009-06-26 16:39:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF SU LY EU CD
09NDJAMENA264DEBY-GRATION MEETING: DEBY WANTS TO HELP USG
[...] (SBU) Meeting with Special Envoy Scott Gration June 29, Chad's President Deby Idriss Itno made the following points: -- Resolving the Darfur crisis is a key goal for Chad. -- Chad is committed to implementing the Doha agreement of May 3 and views the recent decrease in tensions in South [...]
2009-06-29 17:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS ASEC AU UNAUS SU CT CD
09NDJAMENA267MINURCAT CAN HELP REDUCE CHAD-SUDAN TENSIONS, SRSG
[...] (SBU) During the June 29 meeting with Special Envoy for Sudan Scott Gration, MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo made the following key points: -- MINURCAT (and likely UNAMID) could assist Dakar Contact group border monitoring mission, with amended mandates(s) and several hundred more troops, espe [...]
2009-06-30 14:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS PHUM SU LY QA CT CD
09NDJAMENA269SE GRATION SEES SLA/AW CAUTIOUS AND JEM INTRANSIGENCT ON
[...] (SBU) Darfur's rebel groups will continue to oppose the Doha process for different reasons, representatives from Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) and the Justice Equality Movement (JEM) told Special Envoy Gen. Scott Gration, separately, on May 27 in N'Djamena. SLA/AW's main command [...]
2009-07-02 08:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PGOV MOPS SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA273CHAD TO SUPPORT US POSITION AT THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] In response to Reftel demarche, MFA Bilateral Director of Cooperation M. Oumar Noury Abdelkerim told Pol FSN July 7 that the Government of Chad was willing to join the USG in opposing the call for arbitration authorization at the International Telecommunications Satellite meeting. 2. Abde [...]
2009-07-08 09:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ECON ECPS PREL CD
09NDJAMENA282 CHAD STARTS IMF PROGRAM BASED ON BUDGET REVISIONS
[...] (SBU) The IMF and GOC announced July 7 an agreement for a six-month IMF "Staff Monitored Program" to run April-October 2009, based on Chad's revised 2009 budget that meets IMF's requirements for better public revenue management in the face of diminished oil prices. The IMF-GOC agreement, aft [...]
2009-07-13 09:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EFIN ECIN PGOV PREF CD
09NDJAMENA283WHAT THE USG EXPECTS FROM CHAD: PEACE IN DARFUR,
[...] (SBU) Ambassador told Chad FORMIN Faki July 10 that The Secretary's willingness to meet with him was primarily a function of the centrality of he Darfur crisis to USG policyin the region; that she would be interested to hear from him how Chad could best play an active and positive role in rest [...]
2009-07-13 12:03:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA284CHAD'S ELECTRICITY: MORE GENERATION BY 2011, AWAITING
[...] (SBU) Yaccoub Brahim Djouma, Director General of the national electric company, had little relief to offer for the weeks-long power outages that were commonplace in the capital, counting on replacement parts and cooler temperatures, in a meeting with emboffs July 6. He outlined a long-term p [...]
2009-07-13 15:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EINV ENRG PREF CD
09NDJAMENA286GOC CONSIDERS RETROFITTED C-130H AIRCRAFT TO MEET
[...] (SBU) This is an Action Message -- see para 8. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Government of Chad remains interested in acquiring C-130 aircraft to fulfill its significant airlift needs, despite earlier unsuccessful attempts to procure C-130Js through FMS. GOC-USG conversation [...]
2009-07-14 11:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MASS PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA287FOR FORMIN FAKI MTGS: ADDITIONAL INPUT
[...] (SBU) This message offers information and views that might be helpful to the Department in preparing for Chad FORMIN Faki's meetings in Washington, in addition to reftel. ----------------------- CHAD-SUDAN AND CHAD/JEM ----------------------- 2. (SBU) Faki told us July 9 that President [...]
2009-07-14 13:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA290GOC POISED TO ACT ON GTIP RECOMMENDATIONS
[...] (SBU) The GOC's inter-ministerial committee to address the recommendations in the USG action plan on trafficking in persons met July 14 with local human rights organizations and UNICEF representatives. The participations agreed on a collaborative way forward regarding investigations of abuse [...]
2009-07-16 15:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF KTIP PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA292GOC AIR ACTION VS. REBELS IN SUDAN BORDER AREA
[...] (SBU) GOC military aircraft carried out operations from their Abeche base July 16. It is not yet confirmed if these operations were carried out inside Chad or across the border in Sudan. French diplomats and MINURCAT officials report that the GOC moved two SU-25 aircraft to Abeche on July 15 [...]
2009-07-17 11:54:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA294CHAD ELECTORAL PROCESS: DESPITE PROGRESS, DIVIDED
[...] (SBU) Chad's electoral reform process took two steps forward and one step back last week. Both the government and opposition sides agreed on their lists of 15 names each for members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI). The CENI then elected July 16 by consensus Ngarmadja [...]
2009-07-21 09:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA298GOC PROVIDES LETTER CONFIRMING "PSI BATTALION"
[...] (SBU) VISITING DASD HUDDLESTON ASKED DEFMIN KAMOUGUE JULY 6 FOR DOCUMENTARY CONFIRMATION OF HIS ASSURANCES THAT THE CHADIAN ARMY'S COUNTER-TERRORISM UNIT (AKA "PSI BATTALION") HAD BEEN PLACED UNDER THE CHAIN OF COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF JOINT STAFF OF THE CHAD MILITARY. 2. (SBU) ON JULY 8, [...]
2009-07-22 08:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER MASS PGOV PHUM PREF CD
09NDJAMENA304UNSYG CONDEMNATION OF CHAD "ATTACK" ON SUDAN
[...] (C) The Spokesperson for the UN Secretary General issued a statement July 20 alleging and condemning a Chadian "aerial attack" of Sudanese territory. The facts of the UN statement contradict Embassy reporting and other sources that indicate the July 16 Chadian air action against suspected Ch [...]
2009-07-27 11:13:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY UN CD
09NDJAMENA305USG SHOULD SUPPORT MINURCAT'S REQUEST FOR
[...] (U) This is an Action Request -- See para 8. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) MINURCAT and DOD officials concur on the need for additional USG military staff officers to deploy to MINURCAT. DOD has recommended that a total of eight USG military officers serve in the peacekeeping miss [...]
2009-07-27 11:20:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS MARR KPKO SA CD
09NDJAMENA306REBEL LEADER SOUBIANE RALLIES TO THE GOC AND
[...] (SBU) Chad's official press reported July 27 that Ahmat Hassaballah Soubiane, leader of a major Chad rebel group, returned to Chad July 26, along with two allied rebel group leaders, after having reached agreement with GOC representatives, led by National Mediator Abderaman Moussa, along the [...]
2009-07-27 15:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF LY SU CD
09NDJAMENA310CHAD: NO DECISIONS ON AGOA FORUM ATTENDANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-27 15:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON XA PGOV ETRD CD
09NDJAMENA311GOC SHOULD BUILD ON MOMENTUM TOWARD NORMAL
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro told FORMIN Faki July 24 that GOC should build on the momentum created by his successful visit to Washington and productive talks with senior USG policy makers to move forward on normalization of Chad-Sudan relations by ending the "proxy war" between the two countries' [...]
2009-07-28 06:50:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF SU LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA318PARLIAMENT PASSES POLITICAL PARTY CHARTER,
[...] (SBU) The National Assembly passed a key law supplementing the July 16 law regulating political parties (Political Party Charter) that provoked opposition outrage. The supplemental law added to the Charter law a controversial provision that prohibits elected officials from switching parties af [...]
2009-08-03 07:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA334FRENCH CDA ON CHAD-SUDAN BORDER ISSUES
[...] (SBU) AMBASSADOR MET WITH FRENCH CHARGE ERWAN DE GOUVELLO AND SECOND COUNSELOR FOR POLMIL AFFAIRS JEROME THEUERKAUFF ON AUGUST 6. 2. (SBU) THE KEY POINTS OF OUR DISCUSSION WERE: -- THE FRENCH WERE SKEPTICAL OF RECENT SUDAN GOVERNMENT ACCUSATIONS OF LARGE-SCALE INCURSIONS INTO SUDAN BY CH [...]
2009-08-12 14:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS MARR SU LY FR CD
09NDJAMENA335EU CHIEF ON CHAD ELECTION PROSPECTS, REVENUE MANAGEMENT
[...] (SBU) AMBASSADOR NIGRO MET WITH EU COMMISSION CHIEF GILLES DESESQUELLES AUGUST 11. 2. (SBU) THE KEY POINTS OF THE DISCUSSION WERE: ------------- ON ELECTIONS: ------------- -- DESESQUELLES IS SATIFIED THAT THE NEWLY-NAMED HEAD OF THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTION COMMITTEE (CENI),M [...]
2009-08-12 14:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM SU LY FR UN EU CD
09NDJAMENA336SRSG ANGELO ON U.S. SUPPORT FOR MINURCAT, CHAD-SUDAN
[...] (SBU) AMBASSADOR NIGRO MET WITH MINURCAT SRSG VICTOR ANGELO ON AUGUST 7. 2. (SBU) THE KEY POINTS OF OUR DISCUSSION WERE: -- ANGELO WAS EFFUSIVELY APPRECIATIVE OF THE RECEPTION AND COMPREHENSION HE RECEIVED DURING HIS RECENT VISIT TO WASHINGTON, PARTICULARLY IN THE DEPARTMENT. -- ANGE [...]
2009-08-12 14:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU LY FR UN CD
09NDJAMENA338CHAD AND ESSO/CHAD: PROTECTING A SIGNIFICANT AMERICAN
[...] (SBU) OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS, AMBASSADOR NIGRO WORKED WITH ESSO/CHAD HEAD STEPHANE DE MAHIEU IN WHAT THEY BELIEVE WAS A SUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO PROTECT THE MOSTLY U.S.-OWNED PETROLEUM PRODUCTION AND PIPELINE PROJECT FROM UNCOORDINATED GOC ACTIONS AND AT THE SAME TIME, TO PROTECT THE GOC FROM ITS [...]
2009-08-13 09:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EPET EINV PGOV PREL FR CD
09NDJAMENA341DEBY OPINES ON CHADIAN SECURITY, REBELS, AND OIL REVENUE IN
[...] (SBU) President Deby, in an unexpected move, held an unusually inclusive press conference August 11, which is Chadian Independence Day. The Presidency invited all of Chad's journalists, including -- exceptionally -- reporters from independent media, to the event. Deby spoke at length in res [...]
2009-08-14 08:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM ECON EPET CD
09NDJAMENA342FORMIN DENIES ATTACKING SUDAN AND SEIZING
[...] (SBU) Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat told Ambassador August 13 that no/no Chadian military units had attacked Sudanese villages in recent weeks; that the GOC had not/not seized any Sudanese properties in Chad, but had prohibited the reopening of the Sudanese School in Ndjamena f [...]
2009-08-14 11:38:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS PHUM LY QA SU UN CD
09NDJAMENA343LIBYA INTENSIFIES ITS SUPPORT TO CHAD AND ITS EFFORTS TO
[...] (SBU) LIBYAN AMBASSADOR GREEN SALEH GREEN DESCRIBED TO AMBASSADOR ON AUGUST 6 HOW LIBYA HAD INTENSIFIED BOTH ITS BILATERAL SUPPORT FOR CHAD AND ITS EFFORTS TO NORMALIZE CHAD-SUDAN RELATIONS SINCE HIS RETURN TO NDJAMENA AS COM. LIBYA IS INVESTING HEAVILY IN CHAD'S ECONOMY -- BUDGET SUPPORT, TR [...]
2009-08-17 08:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU LY FR UN CD
09NDJAMENA348TIP: CHAD'S POSITIVE EFFORTS ON IMPLEMENTING USG
[...] (SBU) The Secretary General of the Ministry of Human Rights reported August 17 on the GOC's progress against the USG's TIP action plan for Chad. The SG highlighted the inter-ministerial team that visited southern towns to investigate suspected cases of child herders, providing recommendatio [...]
2009-08-19 13:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF KTIP PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA350NEW SUDAN DCM ON CHAD-SUDAN RELATIONS: "DIPLOMACY
[...] (C) Sudanese DCM gave POLOFF August 18 an overview of Chad-Sudan issues, stressing that the GOS sought international pressure on JEM to return to Doha, and that the GOS itself was pressuring Chadian rebels to return to Chad. DCM expressed his desire to have Chad-Sudan relations "normalize" a [...]
2009-08-21 11:57:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MOPS SU LY QA PINR CD
09NDJAMENA353HISTORIC LEADER GOUKOUNI OUEDDEI RETURNS TO CHAD,
[...] (SBU) Ex-President and long-time opposition figure Goukouni Oueddei returned to Chad August 18, met with President Deby and PM Abbas, and announced that he would return to Chad "permanently" to continue his efforts towards "national reconciliation" both with internal opposition political part [...]
2009-08-24 12:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PINR SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA355CHAD'S NATIONAL MEDIATOR ON A ROLL: GOUKOUNI, SOUBIANE
[...] (SBU) Chad's National Mediator Abderamane Moussa told Ambassador and visiting SFRC Staffdel August 24 that the GOC was fully committed to national reconciliation with Chad rebels and to facilitating similar reconciliation in Darfur. Moussa described his role in bringing ex-rebel Ahmat Soubian [...]
2009-08-25 16:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PINR SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA361GOC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-28 11:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF KTIP PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA362GOC DENOUNCES USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS TO MILITARY COMMANDERS,
[...] (SBU) The MFA invited embassies and international organizations to accompany a cadre of GOC officials visiting Chadan military barracks to address the issue of child soldiers. The brigadier general heading the delegation proclaimed a forceful message of intolerance for the practice of child s [...]
2009-08-28 11:53:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF KTIP PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA368SRSG ANGELO ON CHAD-SUDAN, CHAD REBELS, AND DIS
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Angelo told Ambassador August 31 that he had taken the initiative to engage with the GOC on Chad-Sudan normalization issues and had presented the GOC with a list of graduated confidence building measure, which Sudan SRSG Adada also would present to the GOS. Angelo said th [...]
2009-09-02 11:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UN PKO LY SU CD
09NDJAMENA380 DEBY'S BEST BOYS: CHADIAN PRIME MINISTERS SINCE 1992
[...] (SBU) Idriss Deby took power by a coup d'etat in December of 1990, after which he ruled for several years through a number of "revolutionary councils" staffed by his supporters. Since Deby "regularized" his government in 1992, some ten men have served as Prime Minister, one of them twice. T [...]
2009-09-04 10:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PINR SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA381SRSG ANGELO CONFIRMS MASSIVE DEFECTION FROM REBEL
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo told Ambassador September 3 that he could confirm that as many as 1,500 former Chad rebels crossed back into Chad from Sudan in the past few days. ------------------------ SOUBIANE AND HASSABALLAH ------------------------ 2. (SBU) Angelo said that th [...]
2009-09-04 15:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS MARR SU LY PKO CD
09NDJAMENA391UN EXPERTS ON CHAD ELECTIONS: CENSUS WILL TAKE
[...] (SBU) A UNDP-sponsored team of electoral experts told us that they found Chad's "overall electoral environment" to be "positive" and had therefore recommended "significant UN support" to Chad's electoral process, including a "massive international observation mission." The team briefed Embof [...]
2009-09-10 14:58:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM UN CD
09NDJAMENA398IMF STILL "HOPEFUL" AS CHAD MISSES BUDGET TARGETS
[...] (SBU) IMF Chad chief Christian Josz, in Chad conducting a review of the Fund's current Staff-Monitored Program, told Ambassador September 11 that the GOC had not met its mid-term program targets, citing extra-budgetary capital investment and spending, as well as excessive reliance on credit an [...]
2009-09-16 10:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EPET EFIN IMF PREL IBRD CBD EAID CD
09NDJAMENA399FORMIN FAKI SAYS CHAD ACTING RESPONSIBLY ON JEM,
[...] (U) ACTION MESSAGE: This is an action message: See para 8. ------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Chad FORMIN Faki told Ambassador September 16 that he was looking forward to representing Chad as Head of Delegation at the UNGA and afterwards in Washington. Faki said that Chad had cont [...]
2009-09-16 12:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF SU PHUM LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA40EMBASSY N'DJAMENA'S EAC CHANGES POST POLICY ON
[...] (SBU) Embassy N'Djamena's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met on Thursday, February 5 in order to discuss the deteriorating security situation in Abeche, the regional capital of eastern Chad. 2. (SBU) RSO presented a briefing on the current security situation in eastern Chad. He emphasiz [...]
2009-02-10 16:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAID PREF CD UN
09NDJAMENA401FRENCH IN CHAD SEE IMPROVED CLIMATE FOR CHAD-SUDAN
[...] (SBU) French Ambassador Bruno Foucher, who returned last week from nearly two months in France, told me September 15 that he saw more indications of willingness to normalize Chad-Sudan relations on both sides of the border than he had before he left N'Djamena in mid-July. ----------- REASO [...]
2009-09-16 17:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF SU LY QA FR MARR CD
09NDJAMENA404 LAKE CHAD BASIN COMMISSION FIGHTS NATURAL RESOURCE LOSS
[...] (U) Cheibou Mohamed, Project Director at the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC),a regional body in charge of water resource management for one of Africa's most significant environmental challenges, briefed Embassy staff on the organization's history and current activities. Mohamed said that w [...]
2009-09-18 09:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV PREL EFIS EWWT PHSA CD
09NDJAMENA406AN EER FOR CHAD
[...] (SBU) We learned two days ago of President Deby's decision to accept the invitation to lunch with POTUS and other African heads of state during upcoming UNGA meetings. This visit affords Embassy a good opportunity to lay out Chad's record of progress since its nadir of contemporary existence [...]
2009-09-18 16:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU LY QA FR PKO MARR
09NDJAMENA409CHAD MEDIA PROFILE
[...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY ------------------------ Reftel discussed in general terms problems facing the media in Chad and initiatives being taken by media organizations to improve the situation. This message establishes a baseline by which to measure, quantitatively and qualitatively, me [...]
2009-09-22 12:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OIIP CD
09NDJAMENA413 GOC STILL COLLECTING INCREASED WORK PERMIT FEES FOR
[...] (SBU) The Chadian Presidency's August decision to suspend implementation of a plan to demand large increases in expatriate work permit fees, following interventions by Esso and the USG, appears to have given some breathing room to some foreign workers and to firms who wish to employ them (incl [...]
2009-09-24 16:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD EPET PREL PREF CD
09NDJAMENA417EMBASSY N'DJAMENA'S RECENT INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
[...] (U) As part of our extensive program of outreach to Chad's Muslims (54 per cent of the total country population),and to honor the 2009 anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, Ambassador Nigro hosted an Iftaar for 100-some guests, including Foreign Minister Moussa Faki [...]
2009-09-28 11:53:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO OIIP SCUL CD
09NDJAMENA422 DISASTER RE-DECLARATION FOR CHAD COMPLEX EMERGENCY
[...] The Republic of Chad continues to suffer from a complex humanitarian emergency affecting more than 1.1 million persons, including Sudanese and Central African refugees, Chadian internally displaced persons (IDPs),and other conflict-affected Chadians. The disaster is beyond GOC's capacity to [...]
2009-09-29 08:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD
09NDJAMENA423MISSION ENDORSES DIS SUPPORT AT UPCOMING UN
[...] (SBU) The UN will host an October 2 pledging conference in Brussels for P5 nations and other donor countries to seek financial support for programs under MINURCAT's Trust Fund. The UN is specifically seeking 21.6 million USD to finance continued training for the Chadian Integrated Security De [...]
2009-09-29 11:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA424IMF SAYS GOC MISSES SPENDING TARGETS ON
[...] (SBU) In a meeting October 1, IMF ResRep Joseph Karangwa told Charge and A/DCM that the IMF,s Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) for the GOC had gone completely off track, and that Chad would not meet spending targets through the end of 2009. The IMF would likely agree to a GOC request to "extend" [...]
2009-10-02 12:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN IMF PREL IBRD CBD EAID CD
09NDJAMENA431HIGH PROFILE GOC CORRUPTION CASES MAY BE THE START OF A
[...] (SBU) As Chad's oil revenue dwindles and the GOC exhausts its 2008 budgetary surplus, allegations of corruption are dominating local political discourse and headlines. Chad's Ministry of Morality, charged with investigating corruption within government ranks, has been hard at work, sparing no [...]
2009-10-08 08:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA436CHAD: BIG SPENDING AND GOVERNMENT-PROVIDED HOMES
[...] (U) With the National Assembly in session and the security situation here still calm, the pace of activity on a number of domestic issues that we have been tracking has picked up. -- On October 9, the Council of Ministers approved a long-awaited 2010 budget, which will shortly be presented [...]
2009-10-09 13:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF ECON EFIN CD
09NDJAMENA437COTTON: CHAD'S SECOND EXPORT SECTOR IN TROUBLE
[...] (U) CotonTchad, the GOC's largest parastatal and second largest exporter (after the oil sector),is in danger of bankruptcy. Complicated arrangements with growers require complex financial deals, which are challenging for a company that is poorly managed and plagued by corruption. In recent [...]
2009-10-09 14:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF ECON ETRD CD
09NDJAMENA438GHAZI VISIT TO CHAD; DEBY-BASSOLE MEETING; DOHA
[...] (SBU) UN/AU Darfur Mediator Djibrill Bassole briefed USG officials October 10 on his meetings earlier in the week with Chadian President Idris Deby Itno, FONMIN Moussa Faki Mahamat, and Sudan rebel leaders from the JEM and various SLA factions. Bassole indicated that Sudanese Presidential Ad [...]
2009-10-10 18:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM QA SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA441CHAD: UPDATE ON CIVIL SOCIETY DISCOURSE AND
[...] (SBU) The Electoral Reform Committee created to implement the reforms of the August 13, 2007 Accord continues to focus on the task of educating civil society on political discourse, in preparation for 2010 elections. After some initial uncertainties (reftel),the Committee has organized two [...]
2009-10-14 17:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA446FM FAKI BRIEFS ON GHAZI VISIT RESULTS
[...] (SBU) FM Moussa Faki Mahamat called in DCM October 15 (Ambassador is traveling in Eastern Chad with MINURCAT) to provide a read-out of the October 10 discussions in N'Djamena among President Idriss Deby Itno, Sudanese Presidential Adviser Ghazi Salahhuddin, UN/AU Negotiator Djibrill Bassole, [...]
2009-10-15 17:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS QA SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA447STATUS OF OURE CASSONI REFUGEE CAMP -- MOVE SEEMS
[...] (SBU) The refugee camp in northeastern Chad on the Chad-Sudan border known as Oure Cassoni appears slated to be moved away from the border. The GoC announced on 14 September that the camp had to move (reported Ref A),and has designated a new site for its location. The United Nations High C [...]
2009-10-16 09:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL SO CD
09NDJAMENA456CHAD POLMIL ISSUES: C-27JS VICE C-130JS? AND NEW
[...] (SBU) The GOC is exploring the purchase of C-27J "Spartan" military transport aircraft, a joint Italian (Alenia) and U.S. (Lockheed Martin) product, in place of or to complement the C-130Js it long has sought to buy. If the Lockheed Martin connection with Alenia permits the USG to help Chad, [...]
2009-10-20 07:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MASS MARR PREF PTER PINR CD
09NDJAMENA457GOC "INTRA-CHADIAN DIPLOMACY" SCORING CONTINUED
[...] The Deby Government's outreach to Chad rebels and former regime opponents, which we have long characterized as "intra-Chadian diplomacy," to distinguish it from classic, "Westphalian" intra-state diplomacy, has played a major role in ensuring Chad's national security by dividing and weakening [...]
2009-10-20 11:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA458DEBY ON ELECTIONS; ERC SEEKS IC COMMENTS ON CIVICS
[...] (SBU) President Deby announced this morning, in an interview from Paris with RFI, that Chad's legislative elections will take place in 2010, and its presidential elections in 2011, without recourse to the biometric census that has been discussed here in recent months. Deby said that his rea [...]
2009-10-20 12:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID CD
09NDJAMENA460CHAD CONFRONTS CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND
[...] (U) This is the first of three cables on Chad's approach to environmental affairs, conveying information gathered in the course of the recent visit of the Regional Environmental, Science, Technology, and Health Officer (REO) to N'Djamena, and also following a number of high-level interventions [...]
2009-10-20 13:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO EFIS EAID CD
09NDJAMENA461CHAD STEPS UP WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION
[...] This is the second of three cables on Chad's interest in environmental affairs. The Republic of Chad is facing serious environmental challenges but working slowly to improve conditions and protect elephants from poaching at Zakouma, the country's flagship national park. At the same time, reco [...]
2009-10-20 15:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TBIO EFIS EAID CD
09NDJAMENA462JEM ON THE DEFENSIVE
[...] (SBU) Khalil Ibrahim and Secretary of Humanitarian Affairs Suleiman Jamous, Secretary of Foreign Affairs Djibril Ibrahim, Secretary for Administration Abubakar Hamid, Economic Advisor Bushara Suleiman Nour, and Secretary for Finance Azadein Yousif. asked to see Ambassador Nigro and others at [...]
2009-10-20 16:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA465CHAD: RUSSIAN SPECIAL SUDAN ENVOY BRIEFS PERM-3
[...] (SBU) Russian Special Envoy for Sudan Mikhail Margelov briefed U.S., French, and Chinese Ambassadors to Chad October 20 on his Chad visit, at Russian Embassy over breakfast. 2. (SBU) Margelov said that a recent seminar in Moscow on the CPA was a Russian attempt to interest Sudanese parties [...]
2009-10-21 12:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM RU SU FR CD
09NDJAMENA466CHAD: FRENCH HERE CONTINUE BULLISH ON CHAD-SUDAN,
[...] (SBU) French DCM Erwan de Gouvello gave DCM an example of his nation's continued optimism about the prospects for Chad-Sudan rapprochement, GOC outreach to Chad rebels, and Chad's own progress toward improved standards of governance, based on the October 14-21 visit of Chadian President Idris [...]
2009-10-21 12:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM FR SU CD
09NDJAMENA467WHY IS LAKE CHAD SHRINKING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is the third of three cables on Chad's interest in environmental affairs. Government officials and experts cited several reasons why Lake Chad is shrinking -- rapid population growth, climate change and desertification, and seasonal and cyclical rainfall patterns -- during [...]
2009-10-21 14:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO EFIS EAID CD
09NDJAMENA469 IOM IN CHAD: NEEDS MORE STAFF AND RESOURCES TO SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Accra and N'Djamena RefCoords have found that, in the continued absence of permanent staff to manage the USG's resettlement program for Central African and Sudanese Refugees in Chad, IOM's temporary staff are increasingly overwhelmed. We have requested acting IOM Chief of Mission in Ch [...]
2009-10-23 07:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA471CHAD: ESSO-CHAD MEETS DEBY CRITIQUE AND HOLDS
[...] (SBU) ESSO-Chad Chief De Mahieu told Ambassador October 21 that ExxonMobil had successfully defended its management of the petroleum project during a meeting with President Deby in Washington last month, satisfying the skeptical Deby that the consortium was not/not being pressured by third par [...]
2009-10-23 08:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EPET ETRD PREF EINV US CD
09NDJAMENA476UNICEF IN CHAD: CHILD SOLDIERS, MALNUTRITION, AND
[...] (SBU) UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director briefed Ambassador October 19 on UNICEF's main challenges in Chad in coming months. Johnson addressed child-soldiers in Chad, saying that UNICEF is working with the GOC ministries of Defense, Interior, and Social Affairs on child soldiers in the Chadi [...]
2009-10-26 08:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL PREF CD SO
09NDJAMENA479CHAD: MINURCAT SRSG GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ON
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo told Ambassador October 22 that he was "guardedly optimistic" regarding the current trend in Chad-Sudan relations, where momentum toward normalization and ending support for military proxies was building, and on Chad's election process, making "credible if n [...]
2009-10-26 09:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU FR LY UN AU CD
09NDJAMENA481POSSIBLE FUNDING IMPLICATIONS OF HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES PLAN
[...] (U) This is an USAID/OFDA reporting cable drafted by OFDA/Khartoum TDY Oumar M'Bareck and OFDA/Washington TDY George Siasoco. Post thanks OFDA for their close collaboration during this visit. - - - - SUMMARY - - - - 2. (SBU) OFDA discussions in N'Djamena and Abeche with humanitarian i [...]
2009-10-26 14:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA482CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
[...] (U) The following is an update of RefCoord N'Djamena activities for the period of 12 to 23 OCT, 2009. ------------------------------ RET'S SUDAN CURRICULUM EXAMS FOR GRADES 8 AND 11 -- PILOT CONTINUES IN 2010 ------------------------------ 2. (SBU) RefCoord met 12 OCT with Refugee Edu [...]
2009-10-26 14:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA483JEM MATTERS: KHALIL IBRAHIM ON INTERPOL WATCH
[...] (U) This is an action message: See para 3 and 6. ------------------------------------- KHALIL IBRAHIM ON INTERPOL WATCH LIST ------------------------------------- 2. (C) We understand that a "Red Notice" for JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim was placed on an INTERPOL list at the request of S [...]
2009-10-26 16:11:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC SU CD
09NDJAMENA484FORMER GUANTANAMO DETAINEE AL-QARANI SEEKS CHADIAN
[...] (C) Embassy staff have been advised by contacts in Chad's law enforcement community that since his release from Chadian custody last June (see reftel and previous),former Guantanamo detainee Yousef al-Qarani (aka Mohamed al-Gharani) has obtained a fraudulent birth certificate in Moussoro, th [...]
2009-10-26 16:16:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC CD
09NDJAMENA485FORMIN SAYS CHAD PUSHING TO NORMALIZE WITH SUDAN,
[...] (SBU) FM Moussa Faki Mahamat told Ambassador and DCM October 27 that Chad was "perfectly serious" about pursuing normalization with Sudan; still talking to Sudan about confidence-building measures and normalizing relations along lines agreed during Dr.Ghazi Salahuddin's visit last month; and [...]
2009-10-27 14:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF MARR SU NI CD
09NDJAMENA486CHAD: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON AMCIT NOMINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-27 14:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR UNGA CD
09NDJAMENA488CHAD: 2009 HARVEST AND FOOD SECURITY SITUATION
[...] (SBU) In light of concerns on the part of NGO contacts and others that this year's cereals harvest will fall short of meeting Chad's food needs, Embassy staff had conversations October 27 and 28 with Ministry of Agriculture officials including Docteur Paul, Deputy Director of Production and [...]
2009-10-28 16:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD ECON
09NDJAMENA494CHAD: DELIVERY OF CEEAC DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Embassy staff delivered French language version of demarche points in Ref A to the MFA's Director General for African Integration, Brahim Adoum, on October 29, also drawing on background in Ref B (demarche for the CEEAC seat in Libreville). Adoun said that Chad welcomed the decision o [...]
2009-10-29 11:31:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID GB KPAO CD
09NDJAMENA498CHAD-SUDAN DETENTE: THE NEXT STEP IS DEFINITELY
[...] (SBU) "The ball is definitely in Sudan's court" in the current Chad-Sudan bilateral process aimed at detente between the two countries, Francophonie "Ambassador" Hassan Lebatt told Ambassador and DCM October 30. Lebatt, who is a keen analyst of the Chad-Sudan situation and very well-informed, [...]
2009-10-30 12:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA499CHAD: SOUBIANE'S REBELS "RE-INTEGRATED" INTO
[...] (U) The GOC announced October 28 that some 1,744 fighters from Ahmat Soubiane's National Movement (MN) rebel group had been integrated into the Chadian Army (ANT) on October 27 in a ceremony conducted in the GOC's military re-integration camp in the town of Moussoro, some 100 miles northeast o [...]
2009-10-30 14:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA500CHADIAN ELECTORAL PROCESS: FRANCOPHONIE PUSHES
[...] (SBU) The representative to Chad of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, Hacen Lebatt, called on Ambassador Nigro October 30 to express concern that technical matters including the question of whether to hold a biometric census risked setting back Chad,s electoral timetable. L [...]
2009-10-31 12:39:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM CD CT
09NDJAMENA501CHAD: WORLD BANK AND IMF REPS ON PUBLIC REVENUE
[...] (SBU) In a series of meetings in recent days, World Bank and IMF representatives have commented on their in-country programs and on Chad's public revenue management, generally considered by both IFIs to be below par. The IBRD's Mary Barton-Dock confirmed that the World Bank was ready to step [...]
2009-10-31 13:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID EPET CH
09NDJAMENA503THE CHADIAN GO-BETWEEN? EX-REBEL SOUBIANE "TELLS
[...] (SBU) Ambassador and DCM met November 2 with Ahmat Soubiane, who described his reasons for going into rebellion, his reasons for returning to Chad, his intention to continue to work to reconcile his former rebel comrades with the GOC, his intention to devote himself initially to socio-economic [...]
2009-11-02 15:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MARR PHUM PREF PINR SU LY FR CD
09NDJAMENA507CHAD: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH RECENTLY HARASSED
[...] (U) Ambassador and POLOFF met October 30 with two human rights activists whose harassment by unknown men last week made the local press. The two men, Massalabaye Tenebaye, President of the Chadian Human Rights League, and Michel Barka, President of the main labor confederation, the Chadian La [...]
2009-11-03 10:52:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL PREF CD
09NDJAMENA510CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
[...] (U) The following is an update of N'Djamena and Accra RefCoords' activities for the period of 26 - 30 OCT, 2009. ------------------------------- REFCOORD AND RSO EASTERN CHAD SECURITY FAMILIARIZATION VISIT ------------------------------- 2. (SBU) N'Djamena and Accra RefCoords and N'dja [...]
2009-11-03 12:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA511EASTERN CHAD: SECURITY FAMILIARIZATION VISIT TO ABECHE --
[...] (SBU) Post's current security practices for travelers to Abeche and eastern Chad under Chief of Mission authority are largely adequate within the security context. These practices are based on the operating rule that travelers will be under the protection of, and will abide by, the practices a [...]
2009-11-03 13:24:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA512UNHCR/WFP ON FOOD AND PHYSICAL SECURITY SITUATION FOR TWO
[...] (U) Summary: Following a Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) in mid-October to study the situation of CAR refugees and Chadian host populations in southern Chad, UNHCR ResRep Stefano Severe and WFP ResRep Jean-Luc Siblot held an October 27 briefing to present agency assessments of two sites of CAR [...]
2009-11-03 13:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA513SUDAN REBELS: DEMARCHE TO TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPS
[...] (SBU) DCM, accompanied by DATT and RSO, delivered points provided in ref message to members of the Technical Committee representing SLA and URF factions November 3, stressing that S/E Gration commended progress thus far, including via the road map signed in Addis Ababa, toward unification und [...]
2009-11-03 17:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SU CD
09NDJAMENA520CHAD: MINURCAT AND PERM-5 AMBASSADORS SHARE
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE: See Para 16. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo told Perm-5 Ambassadors accredited to Chad on November 4 that he was deeply concerned about rising criminality in Eastern Chad, which was beyond the current ability of internatio [...]
2009-11-06 11:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CASC UNSC ASEC SU CD
09NDJAMENA526CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE 02-06 NOV, 2009
[...] (U) The following is an update of N'Djamena RefCoord's activities for the period of 02-06 NOV, 2009. ------------------------------ EASTERN CHAD SECURITY CONCERNS DOMINATE MULTILATERAL MEETINGS ------------------------------ 2. (SBU) RefCoord attended the meeting of the Interagency Stee [...]
2009-11-09 16:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA531IN THE EYE OF THE STORM: ABECHE, CHAD'S EASTERN
[...] (SBU) Abeche, the metropole of eastern Chad, is the center of activity for the local population and the international community's humanitarian and peacekeeping operations, as well as the far-flung region's commercial and administrative center, both civilian and military. The GOC's efforts to [...]
2009-11-12 16:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF ECON CD
09NDJAMENA533EAC -- EMBASSY N'DJAMENA -- EASTERN CHAD TRAVEL
[...] (SBU) Ambassador convened Embassy N'Djamena's Emergency Action Committee on Thursday, 12 November, in order to discuss the evolving security situation in eastern Chad. EAC meeting was attended by ADCM, RSO, PRM, Pol/Econ, Pol/Mil, DATT, PAO, D/D, and CON. 2. (SBU) The area referred to as e [...]
2009-11-13 12:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA536CHAD/JEM: FRENCH AND LIBYANS ON JEM ISSUES
[...] (SBU) The French ambassador told us 11/14 that he had no information regarding recent or upcoming deliveries of arms to JEM in Chad and that he believed that the GOC has put Khalil Ibrahim "on a short leash," restricting his in-country travel to prevent him from getting involved in JEM armed [...]
2009-11-16 13:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MARR SU LY PINR ER FR CD
09NDJAMENA539CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, 09 - 15 NOV 2009
[...] (U) The following is an update of N'Djamena RefCoord's activities for the period of 09 - 15 NOV 2009. 2. (U) In this edition: -- CONTINUED FOCUS ON EASTERN CHAD SECURITY (PARA 3) -- UN ACTION LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF UNSCR 1888 IMPLEMENTATION (PARA 5) -- CONAFIT URGES NGO COOPERATION ON SEC [...]
2009-11-17 13:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA54CHAD/DOHA: THE IMPACT OF THE AGREEMENT HERE
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy Ndjamena salutes Embassy Khartoum's intelligent and thoroughgoing analysis of the Doha Agreement (REF A),with which we by and large concur. We have a slightly different take on some of its Chad-related features. We doubt that both the Deby regime and the Chad rebels c [...]
2009-02-23 17:15:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPKO UN AU CD SU
09NDJAMENA540C-130 AIRCRAFT FOR CHAD: EMBASSY NDJAMENA
[...] (C) Embassy N'Djamena supports USG assistance to help Chad meet its legitimate needs for military air transport along the lines proposed Ref B, namely the package of C-130Rs, C-130Fs, and maintenance services at a cost of about USD 115 million. The visit here of an interagency assessment team, [...]
2009-11-17 15:45:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PGOV ECON PREF PTER EFIN SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA542 IOM/Chad: Tonneau meetings with Chadian Officials;
[...] (SBU) Michele Tonneau, Geneva-based Chief of Movement Management Division, Operations Support Department for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) visited Chad from November 2-6 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Chad on behalf of IOM. Due to the unexpec [...]
2009-11-18 12:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA55URF LEADER ABU GARDA TO PRESENT HIS CASE BEFORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese rebel Bahr Abu Garda, leader of the URF coalition, will travel to the Netherlands to present his case to the International Criminal Court (ICC),his spokesman told Embassy Ndjamena. If this information is correct, URF may be trying to recapture international attention [...]
2009-02-23 17:15:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF UN AU SU CD
09NDJAMENA551ESSO CHIEF ON CHINESE OIL PROJECTS IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) The Chinese are making concrete progress to exploit wells, build a pipeline system, and construct a refinery near the capital for domestic production, after years of speculation about Chinese development of oil fields in Chad, ESSO/Chad chief de Mahieu told Ambassador November 18, cal [...]
2009-11-20 11:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EPET PREF CH CD
09NDJAMENA556CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, 16 - 22 NOV 2009
[...] (U) The following is an update of N'Djamena RefCoord's activities for the period of 16 - 22 NOV 2009. 2. (U) In this edition: (SBU) IRC SEEKS TO RE-STRUCTURE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR OURE CASSONI (SBU) UN HUMANITARIAN AIR SERVICE IN THE BLACK AGAIN (SBU) UNHCR TO BRIEF DONORS ON 2010 [...]
2009-11-23 13:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA557 CORRUPTION SCANDAL WIDENS BUT DEBY SPARES POWERFUL
[...] (SBU) A corruption scandal involving officials of the ministries of Education and Health has widened, implicating seven additional ministers and deputy ministers. Six of the seven were ordered to provide testimony while President Deby spared the seventh: powerful Infrastructure Minister Youn [...]
2009-11-23 15:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PREF PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA56 REQUEST FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT TRAINING TEAM
[...] SUMMARY: Embassy N'Djamena requests a Training Team (FSN Corps) to assist employees of the Financial Management Office (FMO) to become familiar with the current Department approved methods and standards for accounting, vouchering, and cash management. Embassy estimates the time required for [...]
2009-02-24 16:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN AMGT
09NDJAMENA562EU TROIKA REP ON CHAD-SUDAN DYNAMICS
[...] (SBU) EU Special Chad Rep Georg Lennkh gave DCM a November 24 read-out of the recent UN/AU-sponsored Darfur civil society conference in Doha, which he attended. Lennkh emphasized that public statements from both Chad and Sudan at the Doha event confirmed the three-step sequence of confidenc [...]
2009-11-25 11:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EU MARR PREF SU CD
09NDJAMENA563BLACK GOLD RISING? CHAD'S PROSPECTIVE OIL
[...] (SBU) ESSO/Chad has returned to a normal pattern of payment to the GOC, after the 2008-2009 decline in world oil prices and the restructuring of the ESSO-GOC payment agreement resulted in lower-than-normal GOC oil revenues in the first half of 2009, ESSO/Chad chief De Mahieu told Ambassador No [...]
2009-11-25 12:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EPET EFIN PREF PREL IMF MASS MARR IBRD
09NDJAMENA564GAMBARI TO BE NAMED SRSG FOR SUDAN?
[...] (C) SRSG for Chad Victor Angelo (STRICTLY PROTECT) called me this morning from his vacation in Brussels to inform us that the UNSYG was plabnning to name Ibrahim Gambari SRSG in Sudan to succeed current SRSG Adada. 2. (C) Angelo said he was passing this information to us in light of inten [...]
2009-11-25 14:55:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN US SU CD
09NDJAMENA57MINURCAT SOLICITS FUNDING FOR CONTINUED CHADIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: MINURCAT officials, UN Police (UNPOL) Chief Major General Chaumont and SRSG Assistant Gerard Gerrold, met with the DCM February 24 to discuss continued funding for MINURCAT activities in eastern Chad targeting police capacity-building and improvements in the Rule of Law sector. [...]
2009-02-24 17:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF UN CT CD
09NDJAMENA575IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CHILD SOLDIERS PREVENTION ACT
[...] (SBU) Post has an ongoing dialogue with the Government of Chad regarding the recruitment and use of child soldiers in the Chadian armed forces, in Chadian armed opposition groups, and Sudanese rebel groups operating in Chad. Post delivered Ref A demarche November 30 to MFA interlocutors as pa [...]
2009-12-03 07:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM KWMN ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL DC
09NDJAMENA576MISSION, GOC, AND IO INVOLVEMENT IN ACTIVITIES AGAINST
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Post would like to take the opportunity to highlight its long history of fighting gender-based violence (GBV) and female genital mutilation (FGM) in Chadian society. The GOC has recently inaugurated its own GBV campaign. In addition, the UN system is deeply enga [...]
2009-12-03 09:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM EAID SOCI KWMN CD
09NDJAMENA578CHAD: NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE ON "DEFAMATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-03 16:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM UN UNGA CD
09NDJAMENA58INCREASINGLY CONFIDENT GOC EMBRACES DOHA PROCESS,
[...] (C) Ambassador Nigro told FM Moussa Faki Mahamat February 24 that the US was pleased with the Doha Agreement and would support Chief Mediator Bassole,s future efforts. Ambassador urged the GOC both to use its influence with JEM and other Sudan rebel groups to encourage them embrace the Doha P [...]
2009-02-24 18:08:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO AU CD SU UN
09NDJAMENA586CHAD POISED FOR CREDIBLE LEGISLATIVE AND MUNICIPAL
[...] (SBU) Chad is now poised to hold credible legislative and municipal elections in 2010. The process of implementing the August 13, 2007 Accord has produced positive results, and many of the essential building blocks for elections are in place. On December 4 President Deby put the full weight [...]
2009-12-07 18:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID EU FR US CD
09NDJAMENA588CHAD: MINURCAT MAKING BIG PUSH ON SECURITY IN EAST
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo met December 7 with representatives of UN member states resident in N'Djamena to describe the PKO's "big push" over the past month to enhance security in Eastern Chad, in the wake of recent kidnappings and a general increase in criminal activity directed agai [...]
2009-12-08 11:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID PREF EU FR UNSC CA CD
09NDJAMENA591HOW TO THINK ABOUT CHAD: ASSESSING CHAD'S PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) The Chad of December 2009 is not the Chad of December 2007. Much has happened in the intervening two years and the Chad's overall trajectory has generally been positive, when viewed in terms of USG bilateral and regional strategic goals. Any punctual assessment of USG policy toward C [...]
2009-12-09 13:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID PREF EU FR US CD
09NDJAMENA592MINURCAT SRSG SEEKS USG HELP ON TROOP COMMITMENTS,
[...] (U) This is an Action Request -- See paras 6 and 7. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) SRSG Angelo, the head of the UN peacekeeping operation in Chad and CAR (MINURCAT),has asked for the USG's assistance on two issues of importance: -- Angelo seeks USG help in encouraging the governm [...]
2009-12-10 10:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF KPKO UN GH NP CD
09NDJAMENA594CHAD NEWLY CAUTIOUS ON C-130 PURCHASE, AMB BACHIR
[...] (SBU) Chadian Ambassador to the U.S. Adam Bechir told Ambassador and DCM December 11 that his government's authorities were not leaning forward on any purchase of strategic air transport at the moment. Bachir said that at the highest level the GOC favored none of the "strategic left package [...]
2009-12-14 11:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL MARR PREF MASS CD
09NDJAMENA595GOC CONTINUES EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE CHILD SOLDIERS
[...] (SBU) The Government of Chad continues its efforts to eliminate child soldiers in its own ranks, after having made definite progress on underage personnel in Chad rebel ranks. The GOC completed a significant sensitization mission regarding child soldiers with recent visits to its Moussouro an [...]
2009-12-14 12:56:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF MARR MASS CD
09NDJAMENA596UPDATE ON AWARD FOR CORPORATE EXCELLENCE ENTRANT
[...] (U) This message responds to request in reftel for current information about past-year candidates for the Department's Corporate Excellence Award, in the case of Embassy N'Djamena, Esso Exploration and Production, Inc., Chad (Esso Chad). 2. (U) A) Is the company still working in the reg [...]
2009-12-14 13:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT BEXP ECON EINV ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV CD
09NDJAMENA60JEM-KHALIL OUTLINES STATEGY MOVING FORWARD
[...] (C) JEM chairman Khalil Ibrahim told the Ambassador February 25 that he was satisfied with the Doha Agreement and that he would return to Darfur to recruit other potential stakeholders from rebel groups, civil society, refugees, and IDPs, to form a broader JEM-led delegation for the next sessi [...]
2009-02-25 17:39:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF UN AU SU CD
09NDJAMENA601CHAD-SUDAN DETENTE "ON TRACK," CHAD REBELS IN
[...] (SBU) FORMIN Moussa Faki Mahamat told Ambassador December 11 that the Chad-Sudan bilateral effort aimed at normalization of relations by ending their proxy war was "still on track," but going slower than the GOC would like, Faki said that the GOS apparently had duly "cantoned" some Chad rebel [...]
2009-12-15 15:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA602"INTRA-CHADIAN DIPLOMACY" AND "CHADIAN NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) National Mediator Abderamane Moussa told the Ambassador December 14 that the GOC's "national reconciliation" efforts continued to claim success, with the return of former armed rebels and former regime opponents to Chad. Moussa cited three recent events: the return to Chad this week [...]
2009-12-16 13:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MARR PHUM ECON EFIN PINR SU
09NDJAMENA603AMPLIFYING THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (U) On December 2, the PD Section distributed materials in reftel on President Obama's Afghanistan speech to key Embassy contacts. Informal reactions were positive, with both government officials and civil society reps making clear that they appreciated our outreach effort and hoped we would [...]
2009-12-17 15:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA604CLIMATE CHANGE MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED
[...] (U) Per reftel, Post has distributed E-journals and other materials related to the ongoing climate change conference in Copenhagen to officials and civil society reps in N'Djamena. We have detected considerable interest in this subject among Chadians, given environmental challenges including [...]
2009-12-17 16:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CD
09NDJAMENA612CHAD: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) Per Ref A, Post submits the following text for consideration for inclusion in the 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism. 2. (SBU) As in 2008, Chad experienced several incursions in 2009 by anti-regime rebel forces. The armed confrontations between Government of Chad troops and anti-reg [...]
2009-12-21 16:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CD PREL PTER
09NDJAMENA615CHAD AND ITS FRANCOPHONE REGIONAL AFFILIATIONS: TENDING TO
[...] (SBU) President Deby took over the annual rotating chairmanship of the Economic Community of Central African States (often referred to by its French acronym CEEAC) in October 2009. He will assume rotating leadership of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) in January 2 [...]
2009-12-22 16:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD PGOV SU CD
09NDJAMENA617CHAD-SUDAN DETENTE: FORMIN FAKI TO LEAD CHAD
[...] (C) Chad FORMIN Faki will lead a Chad delegation to Khartoum December 24, as the next step in the ongoing bilateral detente process, Chad AMB to Washington Bechir told Ambassador and DCM December 23 that he and the MFA Military Advisor would accompany FORMIN Faki, as would the Governors of C [...]
2009-12-23 14:42:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PREF MARR MASS SU CD
09NDJAMENA621CHAD-SUDAN: "SUCCESSFUL" CHAD-SUDAN TALKS IN
[...] (C) The Chadians consider that FORMIN Faki's visit to Khartoum December 24-25 was "very positive and successful" in advancing the bilateral normalization process and the end of their "proxy war," Chad's U.S. Ambassador Bechir told Ambassador Nigro December 26. The apparently very frank discus [...]
2009-12-28 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA622CHAD-SUDAN: "SUCCESSFUL" CHAD-SUDAN TALKS IN
[...] (C) The Chadians consider that FORMIN Faki's visit to Khartoum December 24-25 was "very positive and successful" in advancing the bilateral normalization process and the end of their "proxy war," Chad's U.S. Ambassador Bechir told Ambassador Nigro December 26. The apparently very frank discus [...]
2009-12-28 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA623CHAD-SUDAN: "SUCCESSFUL" CHAD-SUDAN TALKS IN
[...] (C) The Chadians consider that FORMIN Faki's visit to Khartoum December 24-25 was "very positive and successful" in advancing the bilateral normalization process and the end of their "proxy war," Chad's U.S. Ambassador Bechir told Ambassador Nigro December 26. The apparently very frank discus [...]
2009-12-28 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA624CHAD-SUDAN: "SUCCESSFUL" CHAD-SUDAN TALKS IN
[...] (C) The Chadians consider that FORMIN Faki's visit to Khartoum December 24-25 was "very positive and successful" in advancing the bilateral normalization process and the end of their "proxy war," Chad's U.S. Ambassador Bechir told Ambassador Nigro December 26. The apparently very frank discus [...]
2009-12-28 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU CD
09NDJAMENA634CHAD: HUMAN RIGHTS TRENDS PERTAINING TO SEXUAL
[...] (SBU) In response to request in Ref A on the status of possible legislation that might criminalize same-sex relationships in African nations, we have examined both Chad's Civil and Criminal Codes. The Civil Code, which dates from Chad's independence in 1960 and which resembles similar codes [...]
2009-12-31 09:19:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM CD
09NDJAMENA65INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTACT KEY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
[...] (U) Post delivered demarche (reftel) to Oumar Noury Abdelkerim, Director of Bilateral Cooperation, in the Chadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to Abdelkerim, the GOC has not taken a firm policy on Durban Review Conference issues. NIGRO [...]
2009-03-02 07:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL
09NDJAMENA70CHAD ELECTIONS UNLIKELY BEFORE 2010
[...] (SBU) Parliamentary and local elections in Chad are unlikely to be held until the first half of 2010, but the Chadian parties to the electoral reform process and Chad's key international partners remain committed to working towards credible elections as agreed in the 2007 August 13 Accord. Al [...]
2009-03-04 17:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF EU FR AU CD
09NDJAMENA71CHAD/CAR: SRSG UPBEAT ON MINURCAT II DEPLOYMENT,
[...] (SBU) SRSG Victor Angelo gave a generally positive briefing to the NDjamena Diplomatic Corps March 3 on the status of the March 15 transition of military security responsibilities from EUFOR to MINURCAT II; on MINURCAT's continued deployment; and on the PKO's current operations. All GOC-UN acc [...]
2009-03-05 12:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF UN EU AU PKO SU CT CD
09NDJAMENA79WORLD BANK WANTS GOC PRIME MINISTER TO VISIT HQ IN
[...] (SBU) World Bank Director of Operations for Chad Mary Barton-Dock told Ambassador March 4 the Bank's relationship with the Government of Chad had not progressed in the month and a half since the Bank had "partially" reopened its Chad office. A meeting between WB President Zoellick and Prime M [...]
2009-03-10 06:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID EFIN AU CD
09NDJAMENA84URF LEADER ABU GARDA IN TRANSIT TO ICC
[...] (C) Sudanese rebel leader Bahr Abu Garda is reported to have departed N'Djamena on March 8, ostensibly in transit to present himself before the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. Separately, Tadjadine Niam, spokeman for Abu Garda's Sudanese rebel coalition United Resistance Force [...]
2009-03-10 15:08:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AU CD
09NDJAMENA89"MY FRIENDS, HURRY UP AND VOTE" -- THE U.S.,
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro joined visiting French FORMIN Bernarnd Kouchner and EU and OIF special representatives in a forceful four-way March 14 demarche to Chad's Electoral Reform Committee, urging it to resolve problems currently blocking progress toward legislative and local elections during 2 [...]
2009-03-17 09:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PREF OIF EU AU CD
09NDJAMENA97MINURCAT RISING: REINFORCED UN PKO REPLACES EUFOR
[...] (SBU) The EU PKO EUFOR, one of two PKOs authorized by UNSC 1778, stood down March 15, transferring its authority to provide security to civilians in Eastern Chad and Northeastern CAR to the UN's MINURCAT, whose mandate was enhanced to include such a role by UNSC 1861. Many of EUFOR's EU-membe [...]
2009-03-23 08:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF MASS MARR UN PKO SU LY
09NDJAMENA99THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR DEAL: UPDATING THE CHAD
[...] (SBU) ESSO-Chad's General Manager Stephane de Mahieu told Ambassador March 18 that falling oil prices had devastated the Government of Chad's budget picture for 2009: the GOC earned USD 1.2 billion/billion in revenue in 2008, but would get as little as USD 150 million/million for 2009, largely [...]
2009-03-23 14:19:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PREL EPET EFIN AU SU LY CD
09SECTIO01OF02NDJAMENA530CHAD: FORMIN FAKI ON CHA-SUDAN DETENTE SEQUENCING, JEM/ARMS, AND JEM/DOH
[...] (C) Ambassador met one-on-one with FORMIN Moussa Faki Mahamat on October 6. Faki said that the next confidence-building step in the Chad-Sudan detente scenario, drafted by Ghazi himself in Ndjamena October 10, was Sudan's to make. Faki said that the Qataris had found JEM's Khalil Ibrahim s [...]
2009-11-12 16:04:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MARR SU LY CD PHUM
10NDJAMENA101CHAD-ENVIRONMENT: G-77 POSITION HOLDING UP COPENHAGEN SIGNATURE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-16 18:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG CD KGHG
10NDJAMENA102CHAD-SUDAN: DEBY BRIEFS GRATION ON KHARTOUM TRIP,
[...] (C) Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno received S/USSES General Scott Gration and Embassy officials February 16 for a friendly and wide-ranging discussion of Chad-Sudan relations, including Deby's visit the previous week to Khartoum. Deby expressed concern that Sudan might not in the end be [...]
2010-02-16 18:54:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SU LY CD
10NDJAMENA105CHAD: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS 2010 REPORT
[...] (U) This is Post's submission for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons report. Answers are keyed to questions in reftel. --------------------------- THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION --------------------------- 2. (SBU) Paragraph 25: A. Government entities, international organizations, and i [...]
2010-02-18 15:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG KMCA CD
10NDJAMENA106LEAHY VETTING REVERSAL AGAIN PUTS USG HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) In September 2009, via Ref A, Ambassador Nigro sought the AF Bureau's assistance in resolving intra-Departmental disputes over sectoral issues, including management of the Leahy vetting process, that were hindering progress toward broad U.S. goals in Chad: regional stabilization, counter [...]
2010-02-21 06:50:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ASEC CD
10NDJAMENA108LEAHY VETTING CONFUSION STYMIES USG HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) In September 2009, via Ref A, Ambassador Nigro sought the AF Bureau's assistance in resolving intra-Departmental disputes over sectoral issues, including management of the Leahy vetting process, that were hindering progress toward broad U.S. goals in Chad: regional stabilization, counter [...]
2010-02-21 13:18:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ASEC CD
10NDJAMENA109END OF THE AFFAIR? DEBY AND KHALIL GO THEIR
[...] (SBU) Working overnight February 19 and into the afternoon February 20, Chadian President Deby brokered an agreement between his erstwhile JEM client, Khalil Ibrahim, and Sudan Presidential Envoy Ghazi Salahhudin, potentially ending fighting between the JEM and GoS. Deby is now en route for [...]
2010-02-22 12:50:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SU LY CD
10NDJAMENA11CHAD-SUDAN RAPPROCHEMENT GAINS MOMENTUM AS GOC
[...] (SBU) Chad-Sudan rapprochement has gained significant momentum, with the GoC last week having given the JEM an ultimatum on the need to travel to Doha and negotiate in good faith, or "go it alone from here on." A Sudanese technical team arrived in N'Djamena January 7, and a heavy-weight Sud [...]
2010-01-07 13:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF SU CD
10NDJAMENA13THE "LA VOIX" AFFAIR: JUSTICE PREVAILING
[...] (SBU) The Chadian justice system showed itself capable of asserting impartial authority in a highly partisan environment, and of carrying out due process and defending press freedom, when the GOC's Justice Ministry decided Jan 6 to authorize the troubled independent Chadian weekly "La Voix" t [...]
2010-01-09 10:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL SU CD
10NDJAMENA16CHAD ELECTION PROCESS GAINING MOMENTUM: COMPLETE
[...] (SBU) Chad's national election process has gained significant momentum since President Deby's December 5 convocation of political party leaders to unite them around the common goal of credible legislative and municipal elections in 2010. Chad's international partners including the U.S. have [...]
2010-01-11 10:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF SU CD
10NDJAMENA21CHAD-SUDAN RAPPROCHEMENT ON FAST TRACK: KEY
[...] (SBU) FORMIN Faki told Ambassador January 11 that Chad-Sudan rapprochement continued to gain momentum, with these key developments January 7-12: -- Chadian and Sudanese "technical teams" signed documents January 7 in NDjamena aimed at implementing the border security provisions of the 2006 [...]
2010-01-12 12:32:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM MARR SU LY CD
10NDJAMENA23MINURCAT PROGRESS REPORT: EAST CHAD SECURITY
[...] (SBU) SRSG Victor Angelo told the resident diplomatic and IO corps in N'Djamena January 11 that he was in the process of framing his end-of-first-year report to the SYG and UN Security Council on the performance of the MINURCAT PKO since its inception last March. The report, due in February, [...]
2010-01-12 16:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF UNSC SU CD
10NDJAMENA26CHAD: DEMARCHES ON U.S. COMMITMENT TO STRENGTHENING THE
[...] (U) Per action request in reftels, Post delivered French language versions of talking points on the U.S. commitment to strengthen the NPT to the Chadian MFA's Barka Gaen, Director of Judicial Affairs, on January 11. Barka said that Chad very much appreciated being informed of the USG's thinkin [...]
2010-01-13 15:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM ENRG PREL IAEA NPT MNUC KTBT CD
10NDJAMENA27EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
[...] (U) The following responds to Reftel request for analysis of measures to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and trafficking in persons (TIP) involving UN peacekeeping personnel in Chad. THE MINURCAT MISSION --------------------- 2. (U) MINURCAT, the UN Mission in the Central Afr [...]
2010-01-15 10:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO PHUM UN CT CD SU
10NDJAMENA28RUSHING TO RAPPROCHEMENT: BASSOLE SAYS CHAD-SUDAN
[...] (SBU) Visiting Chief Joint Mediator Bassole told me late Jan 14 that he was deeply involved in the final stages of negotiations between the GOC and the GOS for a definitive peace deal -- the denouement could be written agreements signed as early as this weekend -- and that he was at the same [...]
2010-01-16 10:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF MARR SU LY CD
10NDJAMENA29CHAD AND SUDAN MAKE PEACE, SIGN AGREEMENTS FULL
[...] (SBU) Chad and Sudan have made a peaceful end to their proxy war, signing agreements in N'Djamena January 15 to formally normalize bilateral relations and to reinforce border security arrangements, which they spelled out in a joint communique. Chad and Sudan pledged to end all support for a [...]
2010-01-16 17:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SU LY CD
10NDJAMENA3FORMIN ON CHAD-SUDAN XMAS DIPLOMACY: KHARTOUM
[...] (SBU) FORMIN Faki told Ambassador Dec 31 that he considered his "Xmas Visit" to Khartoum last week a success; that he was encouraged by the frankness and seriousness of conversations he had with President Bashir, Dr Ghazi, and others; and that he was satisfied that the GOS had indeed moved mo [...]
2010-01-04 10:26:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV MARR PHUM PREF SU CD PREL
10NDJAMENA30THE REAL DEAL?: CHAD-SUDAN PEACE AGREEMENT
[...] (C) The January 15 Chad-Sudan agreements set a deadline of February 21 for both the GOC and the GOS to accomplish the key element in their rapprochement, "elimination of armed rebel presence on their respective territories," Chad Amb to the U.S. told Ambassador January 16, but both governments [...]
2010-01-17 10:25:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SU LY CD
10NDJAMENA31CHADIAN POLITICAL THEATER: SOUTHERN REBEL CHIEF
[...] (SBU) The GOC's capture of rebel commander Djibrine Dassert and his top staff in Southern Chad January 4 was a big plus for President Deby's government, and provided an occasion for a bit of Chadian-style political theater. The Chad military's successful ambush of Dassert, who took part in [...]
2010-01-18 11:18:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF MARR CA SU CD
10NDJAMENA32CHAD: AID PROVISIONS TO GOVERNMENTS WITH
[...] (SBU) This cable responds to requests for information in reftel related to Chad's degree of budget transparency and USG legal strictures prohibiting assistance to central governments whose budgets are not or have not been transparent. Paras 4 to 10 below are keyed to questions in para 3 of [...]
2010-01-18 17:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF SU CD
10NDJAMENA35AMB BECHIR BRIEFS ON JEM, CHAD-SUDAN, AND
[...] (C) Chad U.S. Ambassador Bechir came by this afternoon to provide me a few more details on the Chad-Sudan peace deal, on JEM, and on the MINURCAT extension issue, adding that FORMIN Faki had asked him to do so. ------------------ JEM/KHALIL IBRAHIM ------------------ 2. (C) Bechir said [...]
2010-01-19 16:09:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF MARR SU LY UN CD
10NDJAMENA4 DEBY'S LIBERATION DAY SPEECH HIGHLIGHTS EFFORTS FOR PEACE,
[...] President Deby's annual "Liberation and Democracy Day" speech this year featured the GOC's efforts for peace with Sudan and to reconcile Chad rebels on the international plane, and political and social reforms on the national plane, including support for elections and efforts against child lab [...]
2010-01-04 10:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU CD
10NDJAMENA40CHAD: RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE DEMARCHE RE.
[...] (SBU) DCM and Democracy/Development Officer met January 21 with Sandjima Dounia, Secretary General of the Chadian Ministry of Environment, to deliver points in reftel on the desirability of Chad's associating itself with the Copenhagen Accord on climate change. Sandjima made clear that Chad [...]
2010-01-25 09:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG SENV PREL PGOV SU CD
10NDJAMENA41CHAD'S MEDIA CLIMATE EVOLVING POSITIVELY AS OPPOSITION
[...] (SBU) Goual Nanassoum, head of an EU-funded project on empowering the media in Chad, told DCM Jan 22 that he believed that media freedom had improved over the past year as a consequence of both GoC and opposition commitment to the August 13, 2007 Accords. Nanassoum told us that he felt intern [...]
2010-01-25 11:22:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO PHUM PINR PREF PGOV PREL CD
10NDJAMENA43CHAD AND THE UN CONTEND OVER MINURCAT EXTENSION:
[...] (C) The GOC and the UN have been sparring over the issue of the extension of MINURCAT's mandate since Jan 5. The GOC delivered Jan 15 a note verbale to the UN Secretariat informing it of Chad's "request for the withdrawal from Chad of the PKO" and requesting further "to discuss as soon as p [...]
2010-01-25 15:08:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF MARR UN SU LY CD
10NDJAMENA48HUMANITARIAN UPDATE: NGO REACTIONS TO MINURCAT
[...] (C) Humanitarian NGOs are speculating about the concrete impact of the ongoing GOC-UN debate regarding MINURCAT's future after 15 March 2010 (See Ref A). If the UN and Chad do not arrive at a modus operandi that permits MINURCAT to continue activities pursuant to its mandate under UNSC 1861 u [...]
2010-01-26 13:08:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL PREF CD SU
10NDJAMENA49CHAD, MINURCAT EXTENSION, AND THE LOGIC OF
[...] (C) As the GOC nd the UN continue to negotiate seriously over te issue of the extension of MINURCAT's mandate (se Ref A),our analysis of the GOC's motivations leds us to cnclude that the GOC is attempting to chieve interlocking geo-political and domestic-plitical goals, as well as wringing co [...]
2010-01-26 13:50:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SU LY CD
10NDJAMENA50CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE: M&E Travel and NGO News
[...] (U) The following is an update of N'Djamena RefCoord's recent Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) travel and meetings with NGO partners working in the Chad humanitarian response. ----------------------- M&E TRAVEL: IRIBA AREA REFUGEE CAMPS ----------------------- 2. (SBU) RefCoord spent the [...]
2010-01-27 11:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
10NDJAMENA63CHAD AND UN NEGOTIATING MINURCAT WITHDRAWAL
[...] (C) MG Cammaert, head of the UN Technical Assessment Mission to discuss MINURCAT extension with the GOC, told Perm Five ambassadors here Jan 28 that his initial conversations with his GOC counterparts indicated that the GOC insisted on a framework of "MINURCAT withdrawal in accordance with UNS [...]
2010-01-29 10:59:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SU LY UN CD
10NDJAMENA64CHAD: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING
[...] (SBU) Embassy staff met January 27 with the staff of the Director General of the Chadian National Police (which has highway patrol among other functions) to deliver reftel demarche on the dangers of distracted driving. Local driving conditions are the subject of frequent exchanges among the [...]
2010-01-29 11:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SOCI CD
10NDJAMENA65CHAD ELECTION PROCESS PUSHES ON: OPERATING BUDGET
[...] (SBU) The Chadian electoral process, aimed at national legislative and municipal elections in Nov-Dec 2010, continues to roll forward, with the key steps of establishing a Permanent Board of Elections (BPE) and an electoral budget of USD 49 million taken by the government on Jan 27. Most of [...]
2010-01-30 16:12:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SU LY UN EU CD
10NDJAMENA70MINURCAT WITHDRAWAL: NO AGREEMENT, BUT COMPROMISE
[...] (C) The Cammaert Mission prepares to leave Chad Feb 2 without having definite agreement from the GOC on a plan of withdrawal for MINURCAT that would satisfy UN goals and security requirements. The GOC wants MINURCAT's military component out soon but would permit its civilian component to sta [...]
2010-02-02 12:01:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF UN PKO CT CD
10NDJAMENA76ABSENCE OF AMBASSADOR LOUIS J. NIGRO, JR.
[...] Embassy N'Djamena requests permission for Ambassador Louis J. Nigro, Jr. to be absent from post for medevac to London from February 6, 2010. During the Ambassador's absence, DCM Sue L. Bremner will be in charge. 2. Proposed itinerary is as follows: FEBRUARY 6: 11:50 PM DPT NDJAMENA V [...]
2010-02-05 11:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER KCOM OTRA CD
10NDJAMENA78 CHAD LIKELY TO SUPPORT USG AT CITES-COP15
[...] (SBU) Ministry of Environment Director of Fauna and National Parks M. Daboulaye Man Ymary Djaingue provided GOC feedback February 4 on reftel demarche. Daboulaye stated that Chad would attend the March 13-25 COP-15 and noted his professional recommendation that the GOC support the USG proposa [...]
2010-02-08 08:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP CD
10NDJAMENA79 GOC SUPPORTIVE BUT NOT FOCUSED ON USG EFFORTS IN HAITI
[...] (SBU) P/E Chief shared translated points and joint communique (reftel) February 4 with MFA Secretary General Mahamat Moussa Dago, who was generally supportive of the U.S. efforts. Dago was focused on the continual natural disasters that befall Haiti. He noted that the GOC had contributed US [...]
2010-02-08 08:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM CD
10NDJAMENA81ABSENCE OF AMBASSADOR LOUIS J. NIGRO, JR. - REVISED CONTACT
[...] Per reftel, Post provides the following updated contact information for Ambassador Nigro's medevac travel to London from February 6, 2010. 3. Contact information: February 6 to Open Return: The Mandeville Hotel Mandeville Place W1U 2BE, London Hotel Tel: (44)(0)20 [...]
2010-02-08 11:38:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER KCOM OTRA CD
10NDJAMENA83EU UPGRADES ITS MISSION TO CHAD: THE EU'S "NEW
[...] (C) The EU delegation in N'Djamena has been chosen as one of 54 of the Union's 136 overseas missions to be endowed with new, embassy-like functions derived from the Lisbon Treaty. The delegation, headed by an Ambassador of French nationality, is empowered to speak on behalf of the 27 EU mem [...]
2010-02-08 16:21:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PGOV EU FR PHUM PREF CD
10NDJAMENA84 CHAD: INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR FOR DOL
[...] (U) Chad is a developing central African country still recovering from nearly successful coups d'etat in 2005/06 and serious rebel incursions from a neighboring country in 2008/09. Eighty per cent of its 11 million people are engaged in subsistence farming or herding, and living primarily und [...]
2010-02-08 16:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI
10NDJAMENA85CHAD: CHINESE ENGAGEMENT AND POTENTIAL AREAS FOR
[...] (U) Following paras provide answers to reftel request for information on Chinese engagement in Chad in advance of the U.S-China sub-regional dialogue to be held in Washington March 4. 2. (SBU) China's major investment in Chad is in oil exploration and refining. In 2008 the China Nation [...]
2010-02-09 11:24:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID CN CD
10NDJAMENA86DEBY RETURNS TRIUMPHANTLY FROM TRIP TO SUDAN
[...] (SBU) The Chadian elite turned out en masse the afternoon of February 9 to welcome home President Deby from his historic visit to Sudan and meeting with Sudanese President Bashir. The diplomatic corps was convoked to stand shoulder to shoulder with GOC official and Deby's MPS party members. [...]
2010-02-09 16:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU CD
10NDJAMENA89CHAD WANTS OIL PAYMENT IN BARRELS NOT DOLLARS
[...] (SBU) ESSO-Chad's General Manager has told us that the GOC has formally requested a change in payment practices for Chad's oil royalty. The government, entitled to 12.5 percent of daily output as royalty, has now requested payment "in-kind" vice payment in currency, breaking with the set-up [...]
2010-02-09 16:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EPET ETRD PREF EINV US CD
10NDJAMENA93CHAD'S BUDGET REFORM STRUGGLES AS SPENDING
[...] (SBU) The GOC continues to struggle with efforts to reform public finance management and responsibly administer its budge, but it officially remains committed to the process. Multilateral donors highlighted strengths and weaknesses of the GOC's public finance reform project. The IMF is plan [...]
2010-02-12 08:31:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EPET EFIN PREF PREL IMF CD
10NDJAMENA97CHAD MINISTERS BRIEF S/USSES GRATION ON DEBY VISIT
[...] (C) S/USSES General Scott Gration met February 15 with Chadian FM Moussa Faki Mahamat, NSA Mahamat Ismail Chaibo, and DefMin Wadal Kamougue Abdelkader to offer congratulations on Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno's February 8-9 breakthrough visit to Khartoum (Ref A) in pursuit of fully norm [...]
2010-02-15 17:55:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM CD
10NDJAMENA99MINURCAT TRANSITION -- IMPACT OF PKO DRAWDOWN ON
[...] (SBU) The GOC's objection to the renewal of MINURCAT's mandate in Chad has caused deep concern within the international community as to the impact the departure of the PKO's military and UNPOL actors will have on the provision of humanitarian services to the 420,000 refugees and IDPs in eastern [...]
2010-02-16 11:40:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
88NDJAMENA1239CHAD: 1987 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT
[...] CHAD DOES NOT ENGAGE IN OR SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM. RATHER, THIS COUNTRY HAS LONG BEEN THE TARGET OF TERRORIST ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT OR SPONSORED BY LIBYA, WHOSE ULTIMATE GOAL IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HABRE REGIME AND THE EXPANSION OF LIBYAN HEGEMONY SOUTHWARD. 2. LIBYAN TERROR [...]
1988-03-02 15:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER LY CD
91NDJAMENA848QADHAFI THREATENS DEBY
[...] SECRET - ENTIRE TEXT. - 2. SUMMARY: QADHAFI WARNED DEBY DURING LATTER'S RECENT VISIT TO LIBYA THAT THERE COULD BE NO STABILITY IN CHAD IF BILATERAL RELATIONS DID NOT REMAIN POSITIVE. BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH FRANCE ARE GOOD AND DEBY IS INCREASINGLY AWARE OF THE NEED TO BE FLEXIBLE ON DOME [...]
1991-02-26 14:49:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETPREL PGOV CD LY FR
92NDJAMENA335CHAD'S RELATIONS WITH ITS NEIGHBORS
[...] No summary [...]
1992-01-21 12:09:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PTER CD NI NG CM LY
98NDJAMENA443 THE CESS POOL: QADHAFI ORGANIZES THE NEIGHBORS
[...] (U) PRESIDENT DEBY BROUGHT BACK FROM HIS FEBRUARY 3- 5 VISIT NEWS OF THE FORMATION OF THE COMMUNITY OF SAHEL- SAHARA STATES (COMMUNAUTE DES ETATS SAHELO-SAHARIENS, OR CESS). CESS, ACCORDING TO DEBY'S ANNOUNCEMENT, WOULD APPEAR TO BE FIVE STATES: LIBYA, CHAD, NIGER, MALI, AND SUDAN. THE CENT [...]
1998-02-06 15:55:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL CD LY
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