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Chad repatriates 157 citizens detained in Libya, with more repatriation flights planned to return all detained Chadians.
2024-07-23

The Chadian government announces that an overnight attack on Chad's security services headquarters in N'Djamena has resulted in the deaths of several individuals, and accuses the Socialist Party without Borders of carrying out the attack. In response the Chadian Army besieges the party's headquarters with several people killed including its president Yaya Dillo Djérou amid internet restrictions around the capital.
2024-02-28

At least 21 miners are killed and several others are trapped following a collapse at a gold mine in Simiyu Region, Tanzania.
2024-01-13

Ten Chadian soldiers are killed and many others injured in an attack by Boko Haram in Lac Region, Chad.
2022-11-22

The Prime Minister of Chad Saleh Kebzabo confirms that government forces in North Tibesti have successfully found and subsequently freed hostage Jerome Hugonnot, a Franco-Australian conservationist, kidnapped in Wadi Fira three days prior.
2022-10-31

Chadian security forces raid the home of opposition leader Yaya Dillo Djérou in N'Djamena, killing five of his relatives, including his mother and son. A government statement says the raid was an operation to arrest Dillo. Two other people are also killed and five others are wounded in the ensuing fight.
2021-02-28

The United States says it is "deeply concerned" about abuses by state security forces in the Sahel and threatens to cut aid to the G5 nations that form a coalition in the area – Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Chad – if those issues are not addressed. The U.S. also welcomes a summit to be held between the G5 nations and France and Spain.
2020-07-9

Boko Haram jihadists kill 92 soldiers at an army base in Chad.
2020-03-23

Twenty-six Boko Haram militants and 11 Chadian soldiers are killed in an ambush after the soldiers recover cattle that the militants had seized. Nine Chadian soldiers are injured.
2019-06-23

Suspected militants from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram killed 26 people in attacks on two villages on Lake Chad, Chad.
2015-07-8