Hundreds of troops loyal to Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Ouattara are waiting to launch what they say will be the final assault on Abidjan.
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Chad on Wednesday, his first visit to a full member state of the ICC, which wants his arrest for genocide.
Chadian rebels have freed a US missionary after holding him hostage for more than nine months in the remote north of the Central African country.
Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno said on Wednesday he would not meet his Sudanese counterpart for peace talks.
Chad’s Higher Judicial Council gave him the go-ahead on Friday to pardon six French aid workers jailed for eight years for abducting children, an official said. The six members of the Zoe’s Ark charity were sentenced to eight years’ hard labour by Chad last year for trying to kidnap 103 African children.
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/ 29 February 2008
Chad extended a state of emergency by a further 15 days on Friday, saying it was needed to maintain state authority almost a month after a rebel attack on the capital, Ndjamena. The state of emergency gives the government wide search-and-arrest powers and also permits control of media reporting.
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/ 6 February 2008
Chad’s government is in total control of the country after beating off a rebel offensive, President Idriss Déby Itno said on Wednesday. Making his first public appearance since rebels attacked the capital, Ndjamena, on the weekend, Déby accused the president of neighbouring Sudan of backing the rebel offensive.
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/ 5 February 2008
It is hoped that four more South Africans will be airlifted from Chad to Gabon on Tuesday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. The four South Africans were already at the French military base in Chad’s capital Ndjamena. Three other South Africans remained stranded and were still hoping to fly out of the country.
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/ 4 February 2008
Thousands of civilians fled Chad’s capital Ndjamena on Monday after rebel forces pulled back from a two-day assault, but the rebels said they would attack again to try to topple President Idriss Déby Itno, whose government said it had beaten off more than 2Â 000 insurgents.
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/ 1 February 2008
Chad’s army fought to hold off advancing rebels 100km from the capital, Ndjamena, on Friday as the renewed combat delayed the deployment of European peacekeepers to the Central African country. Up to 3 700 European Union troops were due to arrive in coming weeks on an urgent peacekeeping mission to eastern Chad.