Chad News

Rep. Duncan Hunter's staff recently contacted the U.S. embassy in Chad to see whether he could visit the country and distribute food at a refugee camp.

"An alleged [up]rising led by an Islamic preacher in the oil-rich southern region of Chad was repressed with great loss of life by government forces in the first days of July," Andrew McGregor reported in ...

Previous Next A woman prepares the ground for planting in the Habile Camp for internally displaced Chadians, outside the village Koukou Angarana.

Senegal's president, Abdoulaye Wade, has convinced his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir to reestablish diplomatic relations with Chad.

Sixty-two Albanian soldiers have left to join a European Union-led force in Chad.

As Americans are debating who among their candidates for the primaries can best confront the Jihadists or at least preempt their offensives worldwide, future Jihadi forces have in one day invaded an African ...

The Chadian Minister of Information has accused neighboring Sudan of having violated its airspace by flying over near Bahay, a town near the joint border.

International aid workers have temporarily suspended their work at a village in eastern Chad following attacks on their compounds and ethnic violence, British aid agency Oxfam said on Friday.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed deep concern over the impact of rebel activity in eastern Chad, which has thwarted access of humanitarian workers to the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from ...

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A human rights lawyer defending more than 30 people accused of participating in a Darfur rebel attack on Sudan's capital said on Tuesday he had been detained by state security and warned to drop the case.

The Oil Town Talkers Toastmasters Club celebrated their third installation night for the incoming committee for the term of July 2008 to July 2009.

The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has pulled its aid workers from Chad after a security threat, a spokesman said on Thursday.

Sudan accepts the Congolese mediation to end conflict with Chad, the declaration was made during a meeting between the visiting President Denis Sassou Nguesso and President Omer al-Bashir in Khartoum.

If you've ever spent an entire day trying, and failing, to make one important phone call, as I just did here in sunny Chad, you might understand how tenuous communications are in a place like Central Africa.

Chadian President Idriss Deby said on Wednesday he would not meet his Sudanese counterpart for peace talks and ruled out negotiations with rebel opponents unless they first abandoned their links with Sudan.

Chad's security forces have killed more than 60 followers of a Muslim spiritual leader who had threatened to launch a holy war in the African country in defence of the Islamic faith, the government said.

Fatima thought her son was dead until she saw his name in the newspaper. He was among about 90 children listed as participants in a rebel attack near the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in May, which reportedly ...

Sudanese and Libyan leaders met Sunday on the sideline of the African Union summit in Egypt to discuss bilateral relations for the first time since a Darfur rebel attack against the government in Khartoum last ...

Every morning soon after sunrise, Fatne Abdaraman walks a short distance across the Iridimi refugee camp in eastern Chad hauling a twenty-litre plastic jug.