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 [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]
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 [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]