Chad is a neighbour of Niger, where a coup late last month toppled one of the last pro-Western leaders in the jihadist-plagued Sahel region...

Jihadists from Boko Haram and a rival splinter group, the Islamic State West Africa Province, have been using the region for years as a hav...

Fighting in the vast semi-arid region began in 2012, when Islamist militants joined a local insurgency in northern Mali, capturing swathes ...

"The Central African armed forces attacked the outpost of Sourou in Chad on Sunday morning... they killed a Chadian soldier, injured five a...

These latest rebels are from a group known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, which has been threatening to advance on the capita...

Chad's longtime ruler President Idriss Deby's death, which Paris described as the loss of a courageous friend who had sought peace and stab...

The stunning announcement came just hours after electoral officials had declared Deby, 68, the winner of the April 11 presidential election...