Chad

Hundreds of Chadians were detained on the streets of a Libyan town for a ninth day in retaliation for the Chad government's arrest of four Libyan men on suspicion...

Chad's military government has signed a peace deal in Qatar with more than 40 opposition groups agreeing to hold reconciliation talks, Reuters reports. Peace talks aimed at paving the way for...

20 bodies have been recovered by Libyan rescue services in the desert near the border with Chad, Reuters reports. According to the report, the deceased were believed to have been...

Mixed reports have surfaced in recent days over Israel's participation as an "observer" in the annual "African Lion 2022" military exercise which kicked off on Monday in the Moroccan...

The number of people forced to flee their homes worldwide has increased yearly over the past decade and stands at its highest since records began, the UN Refugee Agency...

Turkish armoured vehicle begins first field mission in Africa

The Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) has inauguarted a well in Chad named after the late Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, who was recently killed by the Israeli forces...

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said that retired Major General Khalifa Haftar agreed, during his visit to Moscow, to send Libyan "volunteers" to Ukraine to participate "in combat in...

Turkey is prepared to boost defence and security cooperation with Chad, as the African nation faces terrorists and other armed groups, the Turkish president said on Wednesday, Anadolu News...

Forces loyal to Libya's renegade General Khalifa Haftar said yesterday that they are now facing armed confrontations with their former allies, Chadian rebels, who took refuge in southern Libya...

An Islamic scholar turned freedom fighter, Omar Al-Mukhtar is best known for leading an armed revolution and guerrilla campaign against Italian colonisers for the last two decades of his...

The Libyan National Army (LNA) of eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar clashed with Chadian rebel forces in the south of Libya on Tuesday and Wednesday, both sides said, Reuters reports....

Algeria has started large-scale activities to restore its influence in Africa by declaring it will write off the debts of 14 countries, a report published by Radio France International (RFI) confirmed....

Stability in Libya needs a democratic system with Libyan references, news agencies reported Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi saying yesterday. In a meeting with officials from Libya, Tunisia, Egypt,...

Algeria's announcement that it is hosting a ministerial meeting in the presence of the foreign ministers of Libya's neighbouring countries at the end of the month has raised some...

UN experts on Friday called on all private military contractors and mercenaries to leave Libya immediately, saying their departure is "overdue" and a "vital precondition" for the peaceful elections...

The president of Libya's Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, ordered the army on Wednesday to take immediate action to secure the country's southern border with Chad. The move came a...

Chad's President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels, Reuters reported an army spokesman saying today, the day after Deby was declared...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...