http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3675880.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/241691.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6289841.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4182990.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6539273.stm

Map of conflict zones

Aid workers saw 'apocalyptic' destruction in eastern Chad

1. Chad says Sudan government-backed militias are attacking villagers in Chad. Some 200,000 Darfur refugees are also in Chad

2. Sudan accuses Chad of backing the Darfur rebels

3. Chad says it will send troops to help CAR fight the rebels

4. CAR says Sudan backs rebels who have seized towns in CAR

The conflict in Darfur is ongoing, with actions being taken as recently as the 10th of April, 2007. Sudan is claiming that their Armed Forces clashed with Chadian forces in Darfur, resulting in 17 dead and 40 injured. Chad is arguing that they only attacked Chad rebell forces launching from Sudan. With the government armies now involved, a BBC correspondent has noted that this will mark a significant spike in the conflict. To this point, the clash has been considered to be among militia and below the level to be considered genocide. Rather, it is coined Ethnic cleansing. The difference:

A Ethnic cleansing refers to various policies or practices aimed at the displacement of an ethnic group from a particular territory in order to create ethnically pure society. The term entered English and international usage in the early 1990s to describe certain events in the former Yugoslavia, with the violent 'cleansing' of Bosniaks. Its typical usage was developed in the Balkans, to be a less objectionable code-word meaning “genocide” but its intent was to best avoid the obvious pitfalls of longstanding international treaty laws prohibiting war-crimes. This Orwellian term has since become still more Orwellian, because it is occasionally used as a claim of war-crimes, when no war-crimes actually exist. For example, “Ethnic Cleansing” has become improperly used to describe a situation wherein poorer ethnic groups are being displaced economically, by other, generally more affluent ethnic groups.

Genocide is the mass killing of a population of people as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."