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German ambassador to Chad to be expelled within 48 hours over 'impolite attitude'
Fp Staff • 2 years agoJan Christian Gordon Kricke, the ambassador, has been in the position since July 2021, and the government provided no formal justification for his dismissal
Chad sentences hundreds rebels to life imprisonment over ex-president’s death
• 2 years agoThe trial of 465 members of the Libyan-based Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) rebel group started on February 13 in Chad's capital N'Djamena
Israel to Chad: Need to curb Iran, Hezbollah clout in Sahel
• 2 years agoMuslim-majority Chad has not publicly spoken of any significant presence by Iran or Hezbollah, a Tehran-backed Lebanese political party with a powerful militia, in the Sahel, parts of which are contending with Sunni Islamist insurgencies
UN chief Antonio Guterres urges Chad to seize 'historic opportunity' with talks
• 3 years agoThe UN chief also encouraged the participation of 'all segments' of Chadian society, including women and young people, in the dialogue, and urged the political and military groups that have not yet signed the Doha peace agreement to join the peace process
How Junta takeovers in Mali and Chad created 'favourable climate' for Guinea putsch
• 3 years agoIn Mali as in Chad, the new presidents are the product of special forces — Colonel Assimi Goita in Bamako, General Idriss Deby in N'Djamena — who have replaced the constitutions with 'transition charter's
Lingui: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's abortion drama from Chad stirs Cannes Film Festival
• 4 years agoVividly filmed with vibrant local colour and non-professional actors, the film movingly captures a clandestine sisterhood in a male-controlled society.
WFP wins Nobel Peace prize: From Yemen to Sudan, UN agency fights hunger in food-deprived places, war zones
Fp Staff • 4 years agoSince its formation in 1961, WFP has worked tirelessly to battle hunger during cirises: From the 1980 famine in Ethiopia, the 2004 tsunami in Asia, to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and now the pandemic
Emmanuel Macron says 'an ally must be reliable' after Donald Trump pulls US troops out of Syria
• 6 years agoFrench president Emmanuel Macron's comments come after Donald Trump pulled out US troops from Syria, leaving thousands of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, which the Pentagon spent years training and arming against IS, vulnerable to Turkish attack.
Toll from cholera outbreak in Lake Chad region crosses 500; UN says more than six million people at risk of disease
• 6 years agoThe Lake Chad region straddles parts of Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, which are all facing the crisis of a cholera outbreak.
Heavy rains in Niger cause floods; 22 killed, over 45,000 thousand displaced due to downpour
• 7 years agoTorrential rains in Niger have caused heavy floods. 22 people were killed and over 45,000 people are displaced