Chad

Over 680,000 Sudanese refugees have found safety in Chad, forced to flee the war raging back home. In the last month alone, 60,000 new refugees arrived; the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said this week. The vast majority of the…

Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby has threatened to withdraw the Central African country from a multinational security force, which he said had failed in its task of tackling insurgent groups in the Lake Chad region. Deby made…

Chad, already weakened by recurring food crises, is facing a new tragedy: torrential rains have hit all 23 of the country's provinces, causing devastating floods. The numbers are alarming: More than 500 people have died, and thousands of…

In a move to strengthen free movement and rejuvenate economic activities across the Lake Chad Basin region, the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has significantly stepped up its clearance operations within the Lake Chad basin. The…

Sudan has ordered three diplomats from Chad to leave the country within 72 hours, saying the individuals were "persona non grata", the Sudanese state news agency reported. The move by Sudan follows Chad declaring four Sudanese diplomats…

More than 300,000 refugees have fled Sudan's conflict seeking safety and refuge in Chad, joining the 580,000 already there. “Chad has been generously welcoming in Sudanese refugees, but Chad itself is a low-income, crisis-affected…

Niger's military-appointed prime minister made an unannounced visit to neighbouring Chad as West African states set talks for mulling possible military intervention to reverse his country's coup and the United States and Russia urged a…

Chad has nationalized all the assets and rights including hydrocarbon permits and exploration and production authorisations that belonged to a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), the Central African nation's energy and hydrocarbons ministry…

Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno opened his Majority-Muslim country's first embassy in Israel, four years after the countries renewed ties following a decades-long rupture, an Israeli statement said. Prime Minister Benjamin…

621 people, including 83 minors, have been arrested in Chad since the violently repressed opposition protests that left some 50 people dead on 20th October, the public prosecutor in N'Djamena announced Friday. "Out of the 628 people…