Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the ICC, plans to visit Chad, his first visit to a country that recognises the court’s jurisdiction.
In a disaster predicted months ago by aid agencies, Africa’s Sahel region is lurching towards a food crisis which the world has only weeks to avert.
The main enemy of Chad and its people is desertification, the effects of which are not limited to the destruction of traditional farmland.
A Darfur rebel leader was caught in a diplomatic stand-off in Chad’s main airport on Wednesday after authorities refused to let him enter the country.
Emmanuel Nadingar was named prime minister of Chad on Friday after Youssouf Saleh Abbas tendered his resignation.
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/ 18 February 2010
Two top UN officials on Wednesday warned that withdrawing UN peacekeepers from Chad would hurt the area’s civilian population.
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/ 9 February 2010
Sudan and Chad agreed on Tuesday to end their proxy wars and engage in direct talks to rebuild their war-affected border areas.
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/ 8 February 2010
Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno on Monday arrived in Khartoum on his first visit to Sudan since 2004.
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/ 13 November 2009
Six aid agencies have suspended operations in Chad after the kidnapping of a Red Cross worker, the UN said on Friday.
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/ 28 October 2009
Some Chadian village chiefs are lavishly rewarded
for loyalty to their leader. Pity it’s the leader of another country, writes Hadid Beduwi.
Sudan said on Monday it had referred Chad to the UN Security Council, accusing its neighbour of launching an air raid inside Sudanese territory.
Sudan has accused Chad of launching air raids on Darfur, an area believed to be the base of Chad opposition rebels, state media reported.
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/ 19 January 2009
Eight rebel groups in Chad have joined to form a unified insurgency that is preparing fresh military action, one of its members said on Monday.
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/ 24 October 2008
Troubled neighbours Chad and Sudan have agreed to return ambassadors in two weeks, paving the way to a full restoration of diplomatic ties.
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/ 29 September 2008
The European Union expects Russia to supply it with helicopters for its Chad peace mission despite its dispute with Moscow over Georgia.
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/ 25 September 2008
The UN on Wednesday renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in Chad, which has been monitoring the country’s border with the CAR.
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/ 23 September 2008
Civil society members are disappointed that the World Bank investment in oil in the Doba oil fields in southern Chad has broken down.
A Chadian court on Friday sentenced a former president and 11 rebels to death for crimes against the state, an official said.
Seven people were killed and 15 wounded on Monday in a blast at Ndjamena’s central market caused by a rocket left over from a rebel attack.
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.
Seventy-two people were killed in clashes between supporters of a radical Islamic preacher and police who went to arrest him, Chad said on Wednesday.
Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno said on Wednesday he would not meet his Sudanese counterpart for peace talks.
Harsh light and shifting shadows in the windblown desert of eastern Chad can conjure strange images, but this was no mirage.
Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno said Saturday that a rebel militia and propaganda run on Ndjamena had been totally brought under control.
A hit-and-run offensive by rebels in Chad has tested the strength and neutrality of a European Union military force deployed to protect refugees.
Chadian troops have routed rebel forces advancing from the country’s east to the capital, the army chief said on Wednesday.
Chad accused Sudan’s army of attacking a town on its eastern border on Tuesday and blamed its neighbour for Chadian rebel raids.
Rebels in Chad said on Tuesday they had seized control of another eastern town and captured a senior military officer.
Chadian rebels said on Monday they had seized the north-eastern town of Biltine, about 750km from the capital, Ndjamena.
United Nations Security Council envoys will ask Chad’s president to seek reconciliation with neighbour Sudan after rebel attacks this year that both sides blame on each other.
Chad have been thrown out of the African Nations Cup after African soccer’s governing body blamed them for causing an unnecessary postponement of their World Cup qualifier against neighbours Sudan last weekend.
Chad’s foreign minister risked alienating his country even further from Sudan on Wednesday by urging the international community to arm-twist Khartoum into resolving the Darfur crisis. Sudan severed diplomatic ties with Chad on Sunday, accusing Ndjamena of backing a rebel assault on the Sudanese capital at the weekend.