Heavier-than-usual seasonal rains in parts of West and Central Africa drove rivers to break their banks in recent months, ...

By Idriss Déby, Chad’s formidable leader, ruled with an iron fist for 30 years from 1991 until his sudden premature death ...

Some years ago, the Lake-Chad Basin, which comprises of Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic, was among one of the ...

People there are also suffering from a food crisis… Severe drought and Russia’s war in Ukraine intensify hunger and poverty in Chad A dire humanitarian emergency is grappling the people of ...

We strongly condemn these acts of extreme violence, which have once again plunged families and the entire Chadian people into ...

The region has been attacked repeatedly by insurgencies including Islamic State in West Africa and Boko Haram, which erupted in northeast Nigeria in 2009 and spread to the west of Chad.

Since April 2023, eastern Chad has received more than 930,000 people fleeing the war in neighbouring Sudan, creating an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The Chadian government and its partners ...

Strain on Chad In a sign of the worsening conflict in Darfur, some 25,000 people — 80% of whom were ... who also serves as the UNHCR's East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes regional director.

The UN warned that in the first week of October alone, 25,000 people fled to neighbouring Chad. Mamadou Dian Balde ... as the UNHCR's East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes regional director.