Chad
10 May 2024
Chad's junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno won this week's presidential election in the first round, according to provisional official results released Thursday, extending his family's decades-long grip on power.
6 May 2024
Chadians voted Monday in an election aimed at ending three years of military rule but dismissed by opponents of junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno as a fix following violent repression.
26 Apr 2024
The United States will withdraw some troops from Chad, the Pentagon has said, days after Washington agreed to move forces out of neighboring Niger.
21 Mar 2024
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 2024
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 2024
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 2024
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 2024
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…
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