Egypt's Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union (AU) Osama Abdel Khaleq has participated in the African Peace and Security Council (APSC) delegation to the Chadian capital, N'Djamena.
The delegation arrived in Chad as a fact-finding mission (...)
Chad's transitional military council will not negotiate with rebels, who have said that they are open to talks, spokesman Azem Bermendao Agouna said on Sunday.
"Faced with this situation that is putting Chad in peril, it is not the time for (...)
Portugal's Prime Minister António Costa said, last Friday, that unlocking sustainable investment between Africa and Europe is a key priority for the European Union (EU) Presidency, which his country currently holds.
He noted that the step towards (...)
Chad's military said on Saturday it has bombarded northern rebels "to the verge of despair" to stop an advance on the capital N'Djamena, following the funeral of President Idriss Deby who died of battlefield injuries.
Deby's death on Monday, just (...)
General Mohamed Idriss Déby, son of the late president of Chad Idriss Déby, announced, on Wednesday, that he will assume the duties of President.
Déby's take over comes under a transitional charter that appointed him as the Supreme Commander of the (...)
Violations of religious freedom are increasing and persecution takes place in more than 25 countries, with China and Myanmar among those that have the worst records, according to a report by a Vatican-backed charity.
The Religious Freedom in the (...)
Chad's President Idriss Deby has died of his injuries following clashes with rebels in the north of the country, the army announced on Tuesday.
The announcement came a day after the 68-year-old president, who has spent three decades in power, was (...)
The State Department on Saturday ordered non-essential diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Chad to leave the African nation due to potential insurgent attacks on the capital.
In addition to non-essential embassy staff, the department also ordered the (...)
Voting began in Chad on Sunday in a presidential election in which Idriss Deby is widely expected to extend his three-decade rule, despite growing signs of popular discontent over his handling of the country's oil wealth.
Deby, 68, was first to cast (...)
Chad was disqualified from African Cup of Nations qualifying on Monday because the country's government dissolved the soccer federation.
The Confederation of African Football said it ordered Chad to forfeit two games scheduled for this week as 3-0 (...)
أكدت تركيا أنها تسعى إلى إقامة موطئ قدم لها في تشاد وبقية دول منطقة الساحل الإفريقي. كما تستعد تشاد لاستضافة مؤتمر دولي دعا إليه معهد منتدى السياحة العالمي في تركيا، والذي يهدف إلى تعزيز السياحة في البلاد وزيادة الاستثمارات السياحية وعدد السياح (...)
Sudan and Libya have been very much in focus during the past few weeks. Cairo has received senior political figures from both countries, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi visited Khartoum, the new UN envoy on Libya visited Cairo, and security and (...)
Last Tuesday witnessed a bolstering of the strategic ties between Egypt and Sudan with the signing of a military cooperation deal.
The cooperation agreement has come at a time of absolute importance for the two sides, especially amid ongoing (...)
Against the backdrop of various high-level meetings between Egypt and Sudan, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi is expected to visit the Sudanese capital Khartoum between Thursday and Saturday, according to informed government sources.
The expected (...)
For at least the past half century in the post-independence era, conflicts, wars, the spread of corruption, and military coups, have spread across the African continent.
For decades, Africa has been, and is still, suffering, with the sole exception (...)
By using every possible means to achieve its illegitimate and illegal goals in Africa, Iran has not been reluctant to support outlawed groups and militias in countries suffering from political and social instability. It has done this either with the (...)
Several terrorist attacks have occurred in the past two days in the far western African countries of Mali and Burkina Faso, leaving 18 people dead.
The attacks have led observers to believe that no country alone will be able to lead the (...)
In his policy statement before Egypt's new parliament on 31 January, Minister of Transport Kamel Al-Wazir said that it had been planned to implement 2,173 projects at a total cost of LE1,522 billion from 2014 to 2024 in the sectors for which the (...)
Government troops killed 81 Boko Haram militants in recent clearance operations in northeast Nigeria, the military said on Monday.
The operations covered "many villages" in the vast Sambisa Forest in the northeastern state of Borno, said Farouk (...)
Sayid Ismael Baraka, a Sudanese-American visiting from Atlanta, was playing with his three children, and his wife was making tea, when the gunmen stormed into his family village in Sudan's Darfur region.
The gunmen went through the village of Jabal, (...)
Zambia and Ethiopia are the countries most likely to follow in Chad's footsteps and seek a debt restructuring under a new G20 common framework, a French finance ministry source said on Thursday.
Chad became on Wednesday the first country to (...)
Egypt's Zamalek have lodged an appeal to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) against the recent suspension of key striker Mostafa Mohamed, the club announced on Sunday.
Late on Friday, the African football governing body suspended Zamalek's (...)
German Ambassador in Cairo Cyrill Nunn discussed with Egypt's Minister of Transport Kamel El-Wazir ways of cooperation in establishing a control system for the diesel-powered railway network and the modern electric one, according to a statement (...)
Washington's mayor has asked for increased security around the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden after last week's storming of the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.
Describing last week's assault as an "unprecedented (...)
A U.S. federal judge in California on Friday blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule that would have dramatically reshaped the U.S. asylum system and restricted asylum eligibility for immigrants seeking refuge in the United (...)
