Scientists say this is because when the Chazy Reef began to form hundreds of millions of years ago, it was in the southern half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

He understood this when he began organizing his administration.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

"There's been a nice recovery since the horrible 2008,2009 drop but we're still below where we were when the crisis began and all through that you had record output of jetliners, so we've got this rather dangerous overcapacity situation."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Violence between the ethnic Goula and Kara communities in the north earlier this year subsided when rebels from the largely Goula Union of Democratic Forces for Unity began fighting alongside government troops to regain control of the city of Birao, near the borders of Chad and Sudan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27