When you look at the flags of Chad and Romania, they appear strikingly similar, almost identical in design and color. Both feature three vertical stripes, with blue on the left, yellow in the middle, ...

Romania's flag predates Chad's by almost 100 years, and the two share little history. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Chad initially had a green stripe but chose to substitute it with blue ...

Since the fall of communism, Romania's national flag has been a tricolour blue, yellow and red - exactly the same as Chad's. Now the small Saharan state is taking the matter up with the United ...

The flags of Romania and Chad became nearly identical in 1989, when the Ceaucescu dictatorship fell and Romania dropped the communist insignia that decorated the centre of its standard.

While both flags have blue, yellow and red stripes, some experts say the blue colour in Chad's flag is darker than that used in Romania's version. But Mr Iliescu said there was no reason for Romanians ...