African Studies
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives
Call for Papers: Utafiti is inviting you to submit your manuscript – any topic in the humanities - for consideration in the next issues.
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As in 2005, the Darfur crisis dominated domestic and foreign politics during 2006. Insecurity mounted in the east and southeast of Chad. The number of refugees continued to rise. Now included among them were refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR), where a fresh rebellion had broken out in the northeast, and from Chad itself, with masses of new IDPs feeling compelled to leave their homes in the affected areas in the east of the country. There were numerous battles between three rebel groups and the Chadian army culminating in a surprise attack by the ‘Front Uni pour le Changement Démocratique’ (FUCD) on N'Djaména, the Chadian capital, on 13 April. Domestic issues were dominated by the presidential elections on 3 May, which resulted in the re-election of Idriss Déby Itno. The conflict with the World Bank over the allocation of oil revenues ended in July with a Memorandum of Understanding specifying new conditions for spending oil revenues. Food security improved somewhat following a record harvest in both 2005 and 2006 and sustained emergency aid efforts by the international community in the east and south of the country.