It all started on the first of February. Fighting broke out for the controll of the Chad's capital. On the third day of fighting, hundreds of civilians were injured, as France tried to broker a settlement in it's former colony. Rebel leaders, one of which is the President's nephew Timane Erdimi, are insistent that their only motive is to "topple a corrupt and authoritarian remgime". France has 1,450 troops currently in Chad as well as an sircraft, but have refused to break up the fighting. The capital city is currently broken into two sections. The rebels in the west, and the government and their supporters in the east. French military planes evacuated more than 500 foreign residents by the 4th, and still had another 400 people waiting to be evacuated. When the president of Chad accused Sudan of helping the rebel attack, Sudan denyed any sort of involvment. The fighting still hasn't stopped.
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