Chad
21 Mar
Clashes between two communities in eastern Chad have killed at least 42 people, the public security ministry said Thursday, in a desert region of the vast Sahel country often hit by land disputes.
2 Mar
Chad junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said Saturday he would contest a May 6 presidential election, just three days after his chief rival was killed in murky circumstances.
29 Feb
A leading opponent of Chad's ruling junta Yaya Dillo Djerou has been killed in an army assault on his party headquarters, a government spokesman told AFP Thursday.
29 Feb
Road blocks and heavy security were in place around an opposition party's HQ in Chad's capital on Thursday, a day after gunfire erupted nearby following a deadly attack on the security agency.
29 Feb
A "general search" of vehicles and passersby was underway late Wednesday in Chad's capital after gunfire erupted near an opposition party's headquarters. The sound of automatic weapons fire earlier in the day prompted people to leave the area in the centre of N'Djamena where the Socialist Party Without Borders' (PSF) main office had been surrounded…
23 Nov
The Federal Government has announced plans to initiate the process of repatriating Nigerian refugees currently residing in neighbouring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger back to their home country.
18 Jul 2023
Chadian leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has pardoned 110 more people sentenced to jail terms following deadly protests against the regime last October, according to a decree seen by AFP on Monday.
10 Jul 2023
The window of opportunity to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Eastern Chad, which is on the fringes of Sudan, is rapidly closing, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said.
27 May 2023
Clashes between herders and farmers have killed at least 10 people in southern Chad, a region regularly troubled by such violence, a local governor told AFP on Saturday.
18 May 2023
Eleven villagers in southern Chad have been killed by "bandits," in a region troubled by violence between herders and sedentary farmers, the military said on Thursday.
30 Apr 2023
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has bursted a factory in Adamawa supplying Akuskura psychoactive substance to Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic.