Internet shut in Chad. All eyes on Chad for possible coup. What about the refugees? Where's Musa Hilal?

👀All eyes on #Chad right now👀
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO

— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) December 7, 2023

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Further reading

Sudan Watch - July 04, 2023

Sudan: UAE President, Chad leader exchange agreements and MoUs. Emiratis assist RSF via Chad

https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2023/07/sudan-uae-president-chad-leader.html

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UPDATE Fri 8 Dec 2023 16:02 GMT:

It seems that internet has been restored in #Chad with no explanation for what happened. The fact that twice this week the country has gone on high alert for fear of a coup, the first when the Ndjamena airport was briefly closed due to a plane breakdown, shows how tense it is. https://t.co/RABmjsLPay

— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) December 8, 2023

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MINURCAT forces have trained Chadian DIS officers to serve as part of a special security force for campsites in E. Chad

UN staff escape injury after attack in southeast Chad
From UN News Centre 20 December 2009:

United Nations peacekeepers have helped secure an area of south-eastern Chad where a UN civilian logistics convoy came under attack from unidentified armed men earlier this morning.
The convoy was travelling between the towns of Goz Beida and Koukou Angarana when it was ambushed at gunpoint by the attackers, who commandeered one of the three vehicles in the convoy and fled, according to a press release issued by the UN peacekeeping force in Chad and the Central African Republic (known as MINURCAT).

Members of the Chadian Detachement Integre de Securite (DIS) team, which had been accompanying the convoy, then pursued the attackers and recaptured the stolen vehicle. One DIS officer was injured in the ensuing exchange of gunfire.

MINURCAT and the DIS dispatched teams to the scene to secure the area, provide medical assistance and retrieve the vehicles, the mission reported.

MINURCAT forces have trained DIS officers, comprised of Chadian police and gendarmes, to serve as part of a special security force entrusted with providing security to the campsites in eastern Chad that are home to thousands of Chadian internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees from the neighbouring Darfur region of Sudan. They are also tasked with helping to protect humanitarian workers operating in the region.