Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

Set in a dry and dusty landscape, Mongo is a town of 40,000 people, in Chad, a landlocked country in central Africa. Average life expectancy, at 51, is about 30 years lower than in the UK.

It's the story hardly anyone in America is talking about. One of Africa’s longest-serving presidents, Idriss Déby of Chad (who had ruled for 30 years) was recently killed in a battle against ...

One country that has much to offer but still does not attract that many tourists is Chad. The country is completely landlocked in Central Africa and is the fifth largest on the continent ...

Africa as a whole is often featured heavily ... 1.6 million of which live in the capital and the largest city, N'Djamena. Chad has several regions, with the Sahara desert in the north, an arid ...

he said airports in Chad's capital N'Djamena and the eastern city Amdjarass were "legitimate targets". Lt-Gen Atta said "retaliatory action" would be taken against the UAE, South Sudan and Chad's ...

KOULKIMÉ, Chad — Alhadji Yaro was a teenager when Boko Haram militants stormed onto his island in the vast, blue-green waters of Lake Chad and made villagers an offer at gunpoint. “‘We will ...