Chad’s Deadly Cocktail: Oil, Water, and Blood

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Chad’s Deadly Cocktail: Oil, Water, and Blood

Posted by Justin Long ⋅ July 16, 2008 ⋅

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Oil, water and blood. In Central Africa the three mix into one volatile
cocktail. I came to Chad two weeks ago to understand how a rapidly
expanding civil conflict, pitting tribal rebels versus repressive
regimes in three countries — Chad, Sudan and the Central African
Republic — is exacerbated by Central Africa’s growing oil reserves
and dwindling supplies of natural resources, especially water and wood. In WIRED News.