Events

• January 7 - A journalist from the independent FM Liberté radio station is harassed by the security forces and allegedly intimated to drop coverage of an issue.
• January 16 - The FM Liberté radio station is closed down by the government and its director Djekourninga Kaoutar Lazar arrested and interrogated.
• January 17 - Keletété Dono, head of the Liberal Party of Chad (Parti Libéral du Tchad or PLT) is arrested without warrant, but was released shortly after. He had left a week before to FM Liberté an interview critical of the government.
• January 18 - The director of radio FM Liberté is released, but charged with defamation and incitement to tribal hatred.
• January 21 - The state prosecutor drops all charges against radio FM Liberté director Lazar.
• February 11 - EU spokesman announces that the deployment of the EUFOR Tchad/RCA
  EUFOR Tchad/RCA
  European Union Force Chad/CAR, also EUFOR Tchad/RCA after the French, was the European Union mission in Chad and the Central African Republic , authorized in late 2007. EUFOR Chad/CAR was authorized under the same United Nations Security Council resolution that mandated MINURCAT, a UN force tasked...
  
  , delayed by the fighting in N'Djamena, is to be resumed. Currently there are only 150 EUFOR troops in Chad.
• March 13 - With the mediation of the Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade
  Abdoulaye Wade
  Abdoulaye Wade is the third and current President of Senegal, in office since 2000. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party and has led the party since it was founded in 1974...
  
  , the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
  Omar al-Bashir
  Lieutenant General Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir is the current President of Sudan and the head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister...
  
   and Chadian President Idriss Déby
  Idriss Déby
  General Idriss Déby Itno is the President of Chad and the head of the Patriotic Salvation Movement. Déby is of the Bidyat clan of the Zaghawa ethnic group. He added "Itno" to his surname in January 2006.-Rise to power:...
  
   sign in Dakar
  Dakar
  Dakar is the capital city and largest city of Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland...
  
   a non-aggression pact. By the terms of the accord, both accept to "inhibit all activities of armed groups".
• March 14 - A spokesman for the rebel National Alliance (AN) declares they will ignore the peace accord among Chad and Sudan and continue to fight Déby if he doesn't accept to start serious talks with them.
• March 14 - 83 of the 103 children who were at the centre of the Zoé's Ark controversy
  2007 Zoé's Ark controversy
  The 2007 Zoé's Ark controversy started when members of a French charity organization, the Zoé's Ark , attempted to fly 103 children out of Chad to France...
  
  , who have been kept in an orphanage in Abéché
  Abéché
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   since the eruption of the scandal five months ago, are reunited to their families.
• March 20 - The commander in chief of the EUFOR Tchad/RCA, Pat Nash, states the troops would answer fire if the rebels will attack the refugee camps protected by the EUFOR.