Chad: Back towards war?

The internal situation in Chad is deteriorating rapidly, and spill-over from the Darfur crisis is only part of the reason, says the International Crisis Group. "Sudan’s deliberate use of Chadian warlords in its counter-insurgency strategy in Darfur and as a tool in its attempts to topple President Idriss Déby is just one aspect of Chad’s woes. The ever deeper convergence of the two crises underlines the difficulty of settling one independently of the other," says the group.