Chad News

N'DJAMENA - Chad has charged four allies of the country's former president with human rights abuses and issued warrants for their arrest, a senior government source said on Friday.

Khartoum - Chad's air force targeted Sudanese rebels along the Darfur border after, a breakaway rebel leader reputedly backed by N'Djamena was killed, the insurgents charged on Thursday.

The Justice and Equality movement said Chadian troops have crossed the border into Darfur region and warned president Idris Deby from the consequences of his involvement in the Sudanese conflict.

Ubika Research has issued a new research bulletin on the recently announced memorandum of Understanding on Block 2A in Kenya by Africa oil play Simba Energy Inc.

One of our Observers , Makaila Nguebla , a Chadian opponent in exile in Dakar, was expelled during the night of 7 to 8 May by the Senegalese authorities.

File photo: Chadian soldiers patrol the streets of Gao, in northern Mali. A sixth French soldier has been killed in Mali amid security operations there.

Detaining all those who speak up against the government is not the best way to prevent political turmoil in Chad.

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Canada-based oil and gas explorer Caracal Energy said it plans to make a stock market debut in London to raise $150 million in funding for its exploration programme in Chad.

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Chad's President Idriss Deby, a survivor of countless rebellions, has stepped into a void left by Africa's traditional heavyweights and turned his desert nation into a powerbroker as France disengages from its former colonies.

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N'djamena - There were at least 20 casualties in a shootout in the Chadian capital N'Djamena, where security forces managed to foil a coup plot, authorities disclosed on Thursday.

Chadian authorities have arrested two senior generals and a member of parliament allied to President Idriss Deby on suspicion of involvement in a foiled coup plot.

Security forces in Chad foiled a coup against the government of President Idriss Deby that had been in preparation for several months, the West African desert nation's communications minister announced late on Wednesday.

Security forces in Chad foiled a coup against the government of President Idriss Deby that had been in preparation for several months, the West African desert nation's communications minister announced late on Wednesday.

Several people including an opposition MP have been arrested in the Chad capital Ndjamena, in what the government has described as an attempted 'destabilisation plot'. Chad has a long history of coups and revolts.

Chad's President Idriss Deby said on Saturday that Chadian mercenaries had set up a training camp in neighbouring Libya from where they could seek to destabilise his country, an accusation Libyan authorities denied.

In an isolated wilderness in Chad, a war is being fought to save central Africa's decimated elephant herds from gangs of ivory poachers.

The Nigerian armed forces have been involved in heavy clashes with Islamist militants near the border of Chad in the last few days.