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.
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.
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.
20120902 AFP 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.
20120215 AFP A Chadian rebel group based in the Central African Republic claimed Tuesday its forces were preparing an offensive that would position them within striking distance of N'Djamena.
20120207 AFP Chad Monday announced it was reopening a major oil refinery it had earlier ordered shut because of a price dispute with its Chinese part-owners.
20120123 AFP Voters in Chad went to the polls on Sunday for the first local elections in the central African country's history, after the ballot had been rescheduled several times.
20120121 AFP Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno wed the daughter of the alleged Janjaweed militia leader on Friday at a ceremony attended by Sudan's president who is accused of war crimes in Darfur.
20120110 AFP Chad's main opposition parties announced Monday they had formed a broad alliance to challenge President Idriss Deby Itno's ruling party in the central African state's first local polls.
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.
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.
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.