Cairo has made its conflict against Ankara a foreign policy priority, rendering all regions a potential battleground, even the African Sahel region, which has generally been excluded from the...
A senior Chadian delegation arrived in Israel yesterday and met with senior officials and expressed a willingness to open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem, local media reported. The delegation...
The Humanitarian Fund of Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has donated more than $43 million to the UN Refugee Agency to support displaced populations in Yemen, Lebanon, Bangladesh and Chad, UNHCR said in a press release on...
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Yemen Saudi Arabia will not fine citizens of Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Nigeria and Chad if they have overstayed their visas as long as they pledge to leave the country forever,...
Israeli sources revealed that the outgoing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, asked the President of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, during a two-hour meeting in Uganda, to open...
Well-informed sources revealed that military reinforcements have arrived from Egypt and the UAE to the forces of the retired Libyan general, Khalifa Haftar, who has been leading an army...
An Israeli delegation "discreetly" visited the Republic of Chad early August to discuss economic cooperation between two countries, Israel's Channel 13 had reported yesterday. The visit came in response...
French warplanes bombed a convoy of 40 trucks attempting to cross from Libya to Chad
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January 28, 2019 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Forget the hype. Israel's "security technology" has nothing to do with why some African countries are eager to normalise relations with Israel. What is it that Israel is able...
Chad severed diplomatic relations with Israel in 1972
Major General Khalifa Haftar has sent additional troops to south Libya after his forces were attacked on the Chadian border on 28 December. Chadian opposition fighters seized military vehicles...
December 20, 2018 |
Dr Mustafa Fetouri If you did not know much about Chad, a country in the middle of Africa, it most likely it caught your eye on 26 November when its President, Idriss...
Saudi Arabia has promised to donate 100 million Euros ($114 million) to the G5 Sahel for development projects. The Saudi Press Agency reported Friday that Saudi Arabia has pledged...
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November 28, 2018 |
Mohammad Krishan From Khartoum, where the Arab summit in late August 1967 announced its Three No's: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with it, a leader...
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Is Israel a nuclear power? In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli former nuclear technician, revealed to the British media details of Israel's nuclear power programme and was eventually jailed...
While the Chadian President Idriss Deby was received with praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin, an Israeli academic said he was a "brutal tyrant",...
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November 27, 2018 |
Abdel Nasser Issa Given the increasing possibility of running for early elections, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made sure to achieve public and media achievements y means of revealing relations that...
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Syria Israeli parliamentarian Tamar Zandberg yesterday urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "to reveal if meetings held during Chadian President Idriss Déby's visit to Israel will include negotiations on Israeli arms...
The President of the Republic of Chad said on Sunday that "all options are open" for cooperation with Israel. Idriss Deby made his comments in a press conference with...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the visiting Chadian President on Sunday that he expects to make more trips to Arab countries in the near future after going to...
Chadian President Idriss Deby will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday, the first such visit by a leader of the central African nation which severed...
A senior delegation of Israeli officials travelled to Chad this week to discuss the possibility of renewing diplomatic relations between the two countries, Israeli media reported today. Chad cut...
Israel has been holding secret talks over the past three months with Chad in an effort to establish diplomatic relations with the African state, Hebrew media sites have reported....
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July 30, 2018 |
Hassina Mechaï MEMO attended the 31st African Union Summit held in Nouakchott, Mauritania and talked with Niger's president, Mahamadou Issoufou
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June 22, 2018 |
Amelia Smith The first time Talal Hasan met Omar Almahel they slept side by side on a piece of cardboard at a train station in Brussels. Not long after this the...
The forces of Khalifa Haftar, who is backed by the Libyan House of Representatives in Tobruk, have given Africans in the south of the country nine days to leave...
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News Turkey is set to donate $5 million to aid in the fight against terrorism and trafficking in the turbulent Sahel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced yesterday during his...
Authorities in eastern Libya have arrested two Chadian nationals for posing as the Chadian ambassador and a foreign diplomat. They were arrested by police forces in the town of...
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News Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, on Sunday for a two-day visit aimed at deepening the relations between the two countries. Arriving in the Sudanese...
President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday France stood ready if needed to strengthen its military force fighting alongside African troops against insurgents in the Sahel. France has been seeking...
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Sudan The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed full enforcement of the latest version of the Trump administration's travel ban. The justices ruled the policy could be fully enforced even as legal...
The European Union, United Nations and African Union have agreed to an emergency plan to dismantle people-smuggling networks and repatriate stranded migrants, in an effort to ease a human...