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No forced recruitment in Sarh, government says

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    Chad’s government denied on Wednesday a report that its military was forcibly recruiting young people in Sarh, some 500 km southeast of the capital. “This is totally false,” Issa Ibrahim Kedela, the director of cabinet at the Ministry of Communication, told IRIN. The Missionary Service News Agency, MISNA, quoted unnamed civil society sources as saying that young people in the town were living in fear. MISNA said “a large group” of students fled after seeing an army recruitment truck near their school. [See separate item titled ‘CHAD: Government denies forced recruitment in Sarh’]

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