Senegal's adoption today of a constitutional amendment confirming that Senegalese courts can prosecute past crimes against humanity lifts any legal obstacles to the trial of former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré, Human Rights Watch said today.

International aid agency Oxfam Great Britain temporarily suspended activities and relocated staff from Kerfi in eastern Chad yesterday after armed men entered the compounds of several NGOs, intimidating and attacking humanitarian workers. Clashes between the Chadian National Army and attackers resulted in the death of at least one man and several injured people. This violence is unprecedented in ...

An interview with Boubacar Amadou, volunteer food and environmental security manager with the UNHCR in Chad

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed deep concern over the impact of rebel activity in eastern Chad, which has thwarted access of humanitarian workers to the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their homes by violence.

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Oxfam and Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) have suspended their activities in Kerfi, near Goz Beida in eastern Chad, following attacks on the staff and compounds of several NGOs, both agencies announced in press statements on 10 July.

Clarisse Larlombaye was nearly ruined when a herd of cows got into her rice field one night.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) today began training some 200 gendarmes and police officers who will be tasked with protecting refugees and displaced people in the east of Chad.