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, ...

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

Romania's national flag is blue, yellow and red. So is Chad's. And there's not much to be done about it. There is no accepted world body to step in when one nation has a problem with another ...