Koro Toro is a settlement in southern Borkou Region in Chad. It hosts the Koro Toro Airport and a "notorious"[1] maximum security desert prison[2] used by the Chadian government to detain captured fighters of Boko Haram[3] and Chadian rebel groups.[1] According to the Chadian opposition, Koro Toro is factually a penal colony.[2]
It is also known as anthropological and archaeological site, as the fossil hominin Australopithecus bahrelghazali was discovered at Koro Toro in January 1995.[4]
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- Debos, Marielle (2016) [1st pub. 2013]. Living by the Gun in Chad. Combatants, Impunity and State Formation. Translated by Andrew Brown (Revised, Updated, and Translated ed.). London: Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-78360-532-3.