Total area in square miles: 1.284 million sq km
Area comparative: slightly more than three times the size of California Population: 9,826,419
Total infant mortality rate: 93.82 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth: 47.18 years
News
AHI-Tchad gets assistance from third graders During this past school year, the third grade class at Loma Linda Academy has learned the importance of service... (read more)
Letters
22 Sept 2007 - Sometimes I wonder why I even bother. I stand in the semidarkness of the early evening with my hand over the heart of an 11-year-old girl, feeling the life ebb out of her. I've detached the ambu-bag from the tracheostomy tube in her neck and she's not breathing. Her pupils are fixed and dilated... (read more)
