The Chadian government says more than 50 people have died of cholera in the country since authorities declared an outbreak of the disease.

The United Nations (UN) says more than nine million people living in the Lake Chad region are in dire need of food aid, blaming the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group for triggering the unrest in the area.

The United Nations (UN)’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned a recent triple bombing attack by the Boko Haram terrorist group that killed at least 27 people on an island on the Chadian side of Lake Chad.

Nearly 40 people have been killed in three explosions in the Chadian city of Baga Sola near the border with Nigeria.

Nigeria’s Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked a Chadian base near the border, killing 11 soldiers and injuring over a dozen others.

Chad has executed at least 10 members of the Nigeria-based Boko Haram Takfiri militant group after they were found guilty of involvement in a series of deadly bomb attacks in the capital, N'Djamena.

Officials in Chad have launched a sweeping security clampdown in the capital, N’Djamena, in the wake of purported Boko Haram attacks in the city.

Many people have died after two assailants blew themselves up outside police headquarters and academy in the capital of Chad, whose forces have been on the frontline fighting Boko Haram militants, a police official says.

A convoy of about 400 Chadian tanks, with hundreds of Chadian troops, has arrived in neighboring Cameroon to help fight Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants.

The UN Security Council will vote a resolution on Thursday that takes the first steps toward sending a peacekeeping force to end anarchy in Central African Republic, diplomats said.

Nearly 2,000 Chadian refugees who fled a 2008 civil war between rebels and government forces into Cameroon began leaving their camp to return to their home country.

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Chad warned Saturday that flooding of vast fields of crops and locust infestations had added to a severe food crisis in a country already battling chronic malutrition.

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Chad's incumbent president, Idriss Deby, has been returned to power in an election boycotted by the opposition, according to preliminary results published by the country's election commission.

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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chadians voted on Monday in an election almost guaranteed to secure President Idriss Deby a fourth term in office, as his main rivals boycotted the race.

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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chadian President Idriss Deby is set to win a fourth term in an April 25 election following a boycott of the poll by major opposition candidates in the oil-producing Central African state.