Central Africa: The dynamics of conflict

For the past two years the media has reported on growing unrest in eastern Chad and the northern Central African Republic (CAR) as "a spillover from the Darfur conflict". Although partly true, this vision is misleading. Both Chad and the CAR suffer from problems of their own which the Darfur conflict has exacerbated but not created. OpenDemocracy's Gérard Prunier dissects the Chadian crisis.