[Dabanga] New York / Port Sudan / Adré -- The United Nations has welcomed the decision announced yesterday (November 13) by Sudanese authorities to extend the opening of the Adré crossing from Chad for three months, so that UN agencies can continue to deliver humanitarian aid to those in need in Sudan.
[allAfrica] Johannesburg -- allAfrica 's Nontobeko Mlambo attended the 20th African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) - the largest gathering of African investigative journalists on the continent - at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
[Crisis Group] 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 should mobilise emergency economic support for the region to help prevent communal violence.
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- An estimated 8 million voters in Chad go to the polls Dec. 29 in legislative, local and district elections. Female leaders and activists, however, say women candidates are being underrepresented.
[VOA] Yaoundé, Cameroon -- The government of Chad said Tuesday that hundreds of Boko Haram fighters are fleeing the central African state's territory and crossing over into Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria. State TV reports the fighters fled after clashes with Chadian forces over the weekend that killed more than 100 Boko Haram fighters as well as close to 20 Chadian soldiers.
[Daily Trust] Numerous Chad troops have been killed in a clash with jihadists in the Lake Chad region, the latest such incident in the central African nation, officials said on Sunday.
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Chadian military airstrikes killed scores of Boko Haram fighters and injured several dozen more in the Lake Chad Basin, President Mahamat Idriss Deby said Friday.
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- The Central African Republic said Wednesday that several hundred rebels have surrendered and handed over their weapons over to government troops and U.N. forces. The rebels surrendered less than a month after the C.A.R reached an agreement with neighboring Chad to jointly protect the two countries' 1,200-kilometer border. Officials now hope to organize local elections that were postponed in October due to insecurity.
[VOA] Yaoundé -- Chad says it will withdraw its troops from the United Nations-supported Multinational Joint Task Force of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, which combats Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.
[IPS] United Nations -- Chad is currently in the midst of a dire humanitarian crisis due to persisting armed conflict, mass displacement, widespread hunger, natural disasters, and an overall lack of essential services. Due to security challenges from the Boko Haram militant group, millions of Chadians have faced decreased mobility as well as human rights violations including imprisonment, beatings, kidnappings, and killings.
[VOA] A shadowy Russian political operator with close ties to the notorious Wagner Group and its late founder Yevgeny Prigozhin is detained in Chad on unexplained charges, adding a fresh chapter to his long career of mystery and intrigue.
[Agenzia Fides] N'djamena -- Three days of national mourning in Chad in memory of the victims of the jihadist attack on a military base near Lake Chad were declared by Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby, who personally traveled to the site of the attack on October 28 and announced the start of a counter-offensive, called "Haskanite", to find the perpetrators of the massacre.
[VOA] Yaounde -- Chad's President Mahama Idriss Deby has launched a security operation to track and neutralize several hundred Boko Haram fighters who attacked and killed on Sunday more than 40 Chad government troops in the Lake Chad Basin, shared by Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger and Chad. Deby visited the area on Monday and assisted in the burial of his soldiers.
[RFI] Chad's President Mahamat Deby Itno has vowed to track down the assailants who killed at least 40 soldiers in an attack on a military base in Chad's Lake region.
[WHO-AFRO] N'Djamena -- Chad today kicked off an ambitious triple vaccine rollout, including the R21 malaria vaccine, marking a significant step forward in its efforts to safeguard the health and well-being of millions of children.
[VOA] Yaounde -- Officials in Chad are stepping up efforts to connect the central African state to a regional fiber-optic network after cable breakages caused by flooding in neighboring Cameroon caused a protracted internet blackout.
[GAVI] N'djaména -- Chad has launched three vital new vaccines in its Expanded Programme on Immunization. These are vaccines against malaria, pneumococcal infections and rotavirus diarrhea, making Chad one of the first countries to introduce three vaccines at the same time. The introductions are being implemented by the Ministry of Health with support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF and WHO.Malaria, pneumococcal infections and rotavirus diarrhea are among the main causes of infant mortality not only in Chad, but
[Leadership] The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Thursday, said that over 70 million children in high-risk countries of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Niger Republic and Nigeria, have been vaccinated against polio virus in 2024.
[Dabanga] Adre -- US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller called on the Sudanese authorities to extend the opening of the Adré border crossing with Chad beyond November 15 yesterday, following calls by US Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello on Sudan's Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) to "do more to facilitate UN and other humanitarian actors' access to all parts of Sudan, including guaranteeing the Adré border crossing remains open."
[Dabanga] Sudan's Finance Minister Gibril Ibrahim has called for the immediate closure of the Adré border crossing with Chad, on the premise that "the route is used to supply the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)". The Sudan government has agreed to open the airports of Kassala, Dongola, and El Obeid to humanitarian aid traffic, while the Commissioner-General for Humanitarian Aid, Salwa Adam Benya, has discussed the humanitarian situation in Sudan with the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Civilians in Chad say many businesses are at a standstill since an internet outage that began Tuesday morning.
[CPJ] Dakar -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Chadian authorities to reverse a directive announcedon October 9 by Abderamane Barka, president of the High Authority for Media and Audiovisual (HAMA) regulator, to suspend or revoke the licenses of outlets that share online content outside of narrowly defined circumstances.