Chad Bound

Chad's President Idriss Deby said Saturday that Boko Haram jihadists would continue to wreak havoc in the Lake Chad region despite a huge military offensive against the group earlier this year. Lake Chad -- a marshy region dotted with islands near the border of Niger,...

N'Djamena, Aug 8, 2020 - Forty-four people who died in a Chad prison cell were civilians who succumbed to brutal detention  conditions, not jihadists poisoned as authorities suggested, the National Commission for Human Rights has found. Mystery had originally...

N'Djamena, Aug 4, 2020 - Chad says it has cut back the speed of the internet to crimp the spread of messages "inciting hate" on social media. Government spokesman Mahamat Zene Cherif said late Monday that a "temporary measure" to slow the internet was introduced on...

Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 10 civilians and kidnapped seven others in an attack on a village in the troubled Lake Chad region on Friday, an army officer and local official said. "At around 3 am (0200 GMT), Boko Haram fighters attacked the Tenana village...