Tag Archives: CHAD

    The National Emergency Management Agency has confirmed receiving 152 returnees from Libya and another 104 stranded citizens from N’Djamena, Chad Republic. The Libyan returnees were received at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, while those from Chad were received at the Mallam Aminu Kano …

The African Union (AU) is attracting criticism for looking the other way at the situation in Chad, where a president was assassinated last year ahead of the inauguration for a new term, plunging the country into a chaotic transition period. And on Thursday, pro-democracy civil society organisations on the continent …

Several Chadian army officers, led by General Idriss Abdéramane Dicko, refuse to recognise the authority of the Transitional Military Council, led by Mahamat Idriss Déby. The political crisis in Chad is becoming even more entrenched. While Mahamat Idriss Deby took the head of the Military Transitional Council after the death …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionMahamat Idriss Déby Itno, one of the late president’s sons, is a 37-year-old four-star general Opposition politicians in Chad have rejected the army’s appointment of President’s Idriss Déby’s son to take over in the wake of his death. Déby, 68 – who had been in power for three …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionIdriss Deby had been in power for 30 years Chad’s President Idriss Déby has died suddenly in clashes with rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, the army has said on state TV. His death came shortly after provisional election results which projected he would …

Global football governing body, FIFA has banned Chad from football until further notice. The decision was taken by the Bureau of the Fifa Council on Wednesday and takes effect immediately. Note that in December 2020, Fifa had rejected a request from the country’s ministry of sports to dissolve the Chadian Football Federation. …

A group of 44 prisoners died in one night in a prison in Chad because they were all kept in the same cell in 46C heat, an investigation has concluded. Prosecutors had suggested that the group were suspected Boko Haram militants and had taken poison to kill themselves. But the …