2008 in Chad

Events from the year 2008 in Chad.

Events

* January 7 - A journalist from the independent FM Liberté radio station is harassed by the security forces and allegedly intimated to drop coverage of an issue.Amnesty International, [http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/chad-pressure-mounting-journalists-20080121 Chad: Pressure mounting on journalists] , press release, January 21, 2008.]
* January 16 - The FM Liberté radio station is closed down by the government and its director Djekourninga Kaoutar Lazar arrested and interrogated."Tchad: fermeture d'une radio et interpellation de son directeur", AFP, January 17, 2008.fr icon] [RSF, [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25091 Police close N'Djamena radio station, arrest manager] , Press release, January 17, 2008.]
* January 17 - Keletété Dono, head of the Liberal Party of Chad ("Parti Libéral du Tchad" or PLT) is arrested without warrant, but was released shortly after. He had left a week before to FM Liberté an interview critical of the government.
* January 18 - The director of radio FM Liberté is released, but charged with defamation and incitement to tribal hatred. [RSF, [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25091 Detainedradio station manager granted provisional release] , January 18, 2008.]
* January 21 - The state prosecutor drops all charges against radio FM Liberté director Lazar. [ [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25091 "Prosecutor drops charges against N'Djamena radio station manager"] , press release, January 22, 2008.]
* February 11 - EU spokesman announces that the deployment of the EUFOR Tchad/RCA, delayed by the fighting in N'Djamena, is to be resumed. Currently there are only 150 EUFOR troops in Chad. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7238298.stm "EU plans resumption of Chad force"] , BBC News, February 11, 2008.]
* March 13 - With the mediation of the Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Chadian President Idriss Déby sign in Dakar a non-aggression pact. By the terms of the accord, both accept to "inhibit all activities of armed groups". [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7293933.stm "Sudan and Chad strike peace deal"] , BBC News, March 14, 2008.]
* March 14 - A spokesman for the rebel National Alliance (AN) declares they will ignore the peace accord among Chad and Sudan and continue to fight Déby if he doesn't accept to start serious talks with them. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7297142.stm "Chad rebels dismiss peace accord"] , BBC News, March 14, 2008.]
* March 14 - 83 of the 103 children who were at the centre of the Zoé's Ark controversy, who have been kept in an orphanage in Abéché since the eruption of the scandal five months ago, are reunited to their families. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7295998.stm "Chad's 'orphans' rejoin families"] , BBC News, March 14, 2008.]
* March 20 - The commander in chief of the EUFOR Tchad/RCA, Pat Nash, states the troops would answer fire if the rebels will attack the refugee camps protected by the EUFOR. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7306360.stm "Chad peace force 'to shoot back'"] , BBC News, March 20, 2008.]

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