Ireland's Imperial Adventure in Chad

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:09:16 +0000
Africa, EU, Irish intervention, Imperialism, International, Newspaper, News

Most people will be aware that Irish troops are being sent to Africa as part of an EU 'peace-keeping' mission to Chad and Central African Republic (CAR), but many will be relatively unaware of the background to the conflict and the reasons for the mission. Chad and Central African Republic are both resource rich (oil, gold and uranium in Chad, gold, diamonds and uranium in CAR) but economically underdeveloped former colonies of France.