Koro Toro Explained

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

It is also known as anthropological and archaeological site, as the fossil hominin Australopithecus bahrelghazali was discovered at Koro Toro in January 1995.^[3]

See also

• Yaho (archeological site)

References

Works cited

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

16.065°N 18.5008°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: War in the Tibesti Mountains – Libyan-Based Rebels Return to Chad . Andrew McGregor . Aberfoyle International Security . 12 November 2018 . 1 March 2019.
2. Web site: CHAD 2017 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT . https://web.archive.org/web/20180421053548/https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/277227.pdf . dead . 21 April 2018 . United States Department of State . 2 March 2019.
3. Book: Gräslund, Bo . Early Humans and Their World . limited . 2005 . Routledge . 0-415-35344-0 . 54 . Traces of the early humans.