Victorious soldiers, captured rebels

These are a group of Chad soldiers who emerged victorious after capturing more than 250 rebels who are trying to overthrow the country’s president. Along with the rebels, the presidential troops also got a large cache of weapons - including surface-to-air missiles and heavy machine guns.

The weapons and rebels were put on a display on Friday to show to the public and the world that the president was winning the war.

He also broke off relations with neighbouring Sudan for allegedly backing and arming the rebels. And on Friday he threatened to expel 200,000 refugees from the neighboring Darfur region as well. Today though, he reversed this threat.

Sudan in turn accuses Chad of supporting fighters in its volatile Darfur region, where Arab militias and African rebels have fought for nearly three years.

The Chad government believes the rebels are regrouping and will mount another attack soon and wants the World Bank to release its frozen bank accounts to finance the battle against the rebel.

The reason the account was frozen in the first place was over the president’s abuse of national income on the war.

I just wonder why the western world (read: the US) is not interested in solving the Chad-Sudan crisis. After all there is oil in Chad.