Chad

DJAMENA, Nov 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Chad says it has recalled its Chargé d’Affaires in Israel for consultation over “unprecedented deadly violence in the Gaza Strip”.

In a statement from the country’s foreign affairs ministry, the government condemned “the loss of human lives of many innocent civilians” and called “for a ceasefire leading to a lasting solution to the Palestinian question”.

In 1972, Chad, a Muslim-majority country severed its diplomatic relations with Israel but later revived ties in 2019.

N’DJAMENA, Aug 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Niger’s military-appointed prime minister made an unannounced visit to neighbouring Chad as West African states set talks for mulling possible military intervention to reverse his country’s coup and the United States and Russia urged a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, a civilian appointed by the military rulers who ousted Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26, arrived in Chad for a “working visit,” the Chadian government said on Facebook.

N’DJAMENA, March 2 (NNN-NEWVISION) — Clashes between herders and farmers in Chad on Tuesday left 11 people dead, a senior local official said.

The conflict between the two communities 600 kilometres east of the capital N’Djamena began Monday near the city of Mangalme following the theft of cattle, the official said, asking not to be named.

In August, 22 people were killed in similar fighting between farmers and herders 500 kilometres south of N’Djamena.

02 Feb 2023; MEMO: Chadian President, Mahamat Deby, said he would inaugurate an embassy in Israel on Thursday that would build on bilateral relations that were established five years ago, Reuters reports.

Deby announced the plan on Wednesday as he began a visit to Israel. An Israeli official said the Muslim-majority African country's embassy would be in the Tel Aviv area.

N’DJAMENA, Aug 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Chad reintroduced rules making it obligatory to wear face masks in public spaces and observe social-distancing as the number of coronavirus cases rises again in one of the world’s least-developed countries, the health ministry said.

“In view of the epidemiological situation of the Covid-19 pandemic both worldwide and in Chad in particular… all preventative measures against disease, particular mask-wearing and social-distancing, must be adhered to,” the ministry said in a statement.

09 August 2022; MEMO: 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 a presidential election will start on 20 August.

The Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), the main rebel group, said it would not sign the deal despite last-minute efforts by Qatar's mediators to include them, report says.

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: 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 Agency reports.

N’DJAMENA, July 5 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Head of the military junta and president of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, left N’Djamena for a “friendship and working visit” to France, his office announced.

The 37-year-old four-star general has been leading a Transitional Military Council (TMC) of 15 generals since the death of his father, Idriss Déby Itno, who ruled the country with an iron fist for 30 years, was announced on 20 April.

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — At the small hospital where Dr. Oumaima Djarma works in Chad’s capital, there are no debates over which coronavirus vaccine is the best.

There are simply no vaccines at all.

Not even for the doctors and nurses like her, who care for COVID-19 patients in Chad, one of the least-developed nations in the world where about one third of the country is engulfed by the Sahara desert.

(Reuters) --- Thousands of people gathered in Chad's capital N'Djamena on Friday for the state funeral of President Idriss Deby, whose death while leading his troops against a rebel offensive has thrown the country into crisis.

Mourners included President Emmanuel Macron of France, which counted on the long-ruling strongman as a lynchpin in the war against Islamist militants, and a host of African presidents and prime ministers.