20110325
Reuters

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's opposition parties withdrew from the electoral commission on Friday, putting at risk a delayed presidential election scheduled for next month.

20110325
Reuters
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's opposition parties withdrew from the electoral commission on Friday, putting at risk a delayed presidential election scheduled for next month.

20110313
reuters

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chadian President Idriss Deby has agreed to postpone the presidential election due on April 3 after opposition candidates threatened a boycott over flaws in the process, one of them said on Saturday.

20110214
UN News

The recruitment and use of children by armed forces and other armed groups in Chad persists, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report, while noting that reduced tensions last year enabled many children to leave such groups.

20101218
Vanguard

AGAINST the backdrop of the dominance of French speaking countries over the English speaking nations, Ambassador Godknows Boladei Igali has condemned what he described as the overbearing influence of French language against Engish at the Lake Chad water border

20101119
RFI

A west African regional court on Friday ruled that Senegal cannot alone try exiled former Chadian dictator Hissene Habré for crimes against humanity.

20100927
africanews

Chad's national electoral commission on Saturday delayed parliamentary and local elections to 2011 due to difficulties with preparations, according to AFP.

20100925
reuters

DAKAR (Reuters) - Up to a quarter of children in parts of Chad are facing acute hunger despite an easing of the overall famine threat across the Sahel region of Africa, UNICEF warned on Friday, calling on donors to provide more funds.

20100917
all africa

The United Nations refugee agency sounded the alarm today about the situation facing thousands of residents of southern and south-eastern Chad, where the heaviest rains in 40 years have destroyed homes and infrastructure, wiped out cropland and cut off access to towns and communities.

20100912
africanews

About 70 000 people in Chad have been left homeless due to floods caused by heavy rains threatening the country's food security, a UN agency said. Almost half of the country's regions affected. Over 31 000ha of crops lost and about 145 000 people hit by flooding, according to UN Humanitarian office.

20100724
Nation

Nairobi — Two Nobel laureates have called upon Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade to speed up the trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habré.

This follows similar calls by West African states and the African Union earlier this year.

20100608
afrol

The parliament of Chad this week voted against government's proposed media law, which would have included prison terms for journalists "insulting the President."

The N'djamena National Assembly decided to reject a print media bill that had been presented by the government. The bill was to have replaced Decree No. 5, which President Idriss Debut issued on 20 February 2008, the day after the launch of a rebel offensive on the capital.

20100524
AFRICA GOOD NEWS

Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's "A Screaming Man" took the jury prize at the Cannes film festival Sunday.
Palme d'Or Award Ceremony: 63rd Cannes Film Festival

The movie was the first made south of the Sahara to be selected in 13 years to compete for the Palme d'Or top prize at Cannes.