Koro Toro

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 used by the Chadian government to detain captured fighters of Boko Haram[2] and armed Chadian opposition groups.[1]

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

References

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

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[Aberfoyle-1] Andrew McGregor (12 November 2018). "War in the Tibesti Mountains – Libyan-Based Rebels Return to Chad". Aberfoyle International Security. Retrieved 1 March 2019.

[2] "CHAD 2017 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT" (PDF). United States Department of State. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 April 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2019.

[3] Gräslund, Bo (2005). "Traces of the early humans". Early Humans and Their World. Routledge. pp. 54. ISBN 0-415-35344-0.