|
ABECHE, Chad (AP) - With gunfire sounding in the distance, workers took stock Monday of looted U.N. warehouses and government offices in this town in eastern Chad, the latest victim of unrest that started in Sudan's Darfur region and has spread across a swath of Africa.
Chadian rebels who have bases in Darfur seized this hub for humanitarian workers Saturday, and government forces retook it Sunday. Amid the upheaval, looters pillaged some $1.5 million in U.N. aid and carted off goods from a courthouse, a national bank office, a cigarette factory and the state archives, said Ouaddai provincial Gov. Mahamat Nimir Hamata.
Both Hamata's office and his nearby official residence were stripped of doors, windows and plumbing.
|
|