Chad

The Lord Resistance Army (LRA), once again reared its ugly head last
week when it killed a number of civilians and SPLA soldiers in Western
Equatoria state. This assault occurred shortly after the SPLA and SAF
clashed in Abyei which resulted in the massive displacement of the
rightful natives of Abyei district. To untrained eyes, these events
seem unrelated and therefore [are] subject to separate treatment. The
LRA has been putting on a show in Juba by paying a lip service that it
is really intent on signing a peace agreement with Museveni’s

The United Nations Security Council has embarked on a mission to gather intelligence on Africa's wars and see how they might be ended.

The mission's first meeting includes discussions with the Somalian government and its opponents.

From there, officials will head to Sudan and other strife-torn nations - including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast.

The diplomats hope to assess what needs to be done next to push peace forward.

NAIROBI, May 11 -- Sudan cut diplomatic ties with Chad on Sunday after accusing its neighbor of backing an audacious rebel attack on the Sudanese capital.

Sudanese officials claimed to have crushed the assault on Khartoum by a Darfur rebel group known as the Justice and Equality Movement, or JEM, which crossed hundreds of miles of desert in armored pickups and struck the Omdurman suburb of the capital Saturday.

An outbreak of violence in the African country of Chad has put increasing strain on humanitarian efforts there. It's created a large number of internally displaced people. And Chad is already struggling to care for the hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees camped out within its borders. The World anchor Marco Werman finds out more from Serge Male, head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Chad, in this audio clip from the show.

After three days of fierce fighting between government troops and rebels here, most of the civilian dead had been carried off, mourned and buried by their families. But the dead rebels had been lying in the streets for days, abandoned by their fleeing compatriots, bloating amid black clouds of flies. Even the soldiers held their noses.

If Chad coup succeeds, Darfur crisis could deepen
Rebels stormed Chad's capital, delaying arrival of EU troops to help refugees.

By Scott Baldauf | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Johannesburg, South Africa.
With rebels in the heart of Chad's capital, N'Djamena, surrounding the presidential palace, the complex Darfur conflict is set to take a dramatic and unexpected turn.