Koro Toro is a settlement in southern Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region in Chad. It hosts the Koro Toro Airport and a "notorious"[1] maximum security desert prison[2] used by the Chadian government to detain captured fighters of Boko Haram[3] and Chadian rebel groups.[1] According to the Chadian opposition, Koro Toro is factually a penal colony.[2]

It is also known as anthropological and archaeological site, as the fossil hominin Australopithecus bahrelghazali was discovered at Koro Toro in January 1995.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Andrew McGregor (12 November 2018). "War in the Tibesti Mountains – Libyan-Based Rebels Return to Chad". Aberfoyle International Security. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  2. 1 2 Debos 2016, p. 110.
  3. ↑ "CHAD 2017 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT" (PDF). United States Department of State. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 April 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  4. ↑ Gräslund, Bo (2005). "Traces of the early humans". Early Humans and Their World. Routledge. pp. 54. ISBN 0-415-35344-0.

Works cited

  • Debos, Marielle (2016) [1st pub. 2013]. Living by the Gun in Chad. Combatants, Impunity and State Formation. Translated by Andrew Brown (Revised, Updated, and Translated ed.). London: Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-78360-532-3.

16°03′54″N 18°30′03″E / 16.06500°N 18.50083°E / 16.06500; 18.50083


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