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Landmines and armed attacks in Senegal's Casamance region are preventing farmers from maximizing production from the region's fertile soil, but there is another problem, too: not enough young people are taking up farming, residents and experts say.
A three-day nationwide polio vaccination campaign began on 30 October throughout Chad, including in the east where according to the World Health Organization the rate of routine immunizations is among the weakest nationwide.
Visiting Chadian leader, Idriss Deby Itno, left the airport yesterday amidst airs of satisfaction and hope for a deepened bi-lateral relation.
On the invitation of President Paul Biya, his counterpart from the Republic of Chad, Idriss Deby Itno paid a two-day official visit to Cameroon that ended yesterday October 29. Such a summit meeting between the leaders of Cameroon and Chad cannot be under estimated. It is not just the bond of friendship that both leaders share, but the multifaceted regional and sub-regional engagements that ...
About 15 million Nigerians from the seven states of Plateau, Bauchi, Gombe, Kano , Jigawa, Yobe and Borno states have threatened to migrate to the neighbouring Niger and Chad Republic , should the federal government embark on the construction of the Kafin Zaki Dam project.
In a toast at a luncheon last night at State House, the two Presidents were full of praises for each other.
Chadian President, Idriss Deby Itno received a red carpet treatment on arrival at the airport.
An international boundary exists between Chad and Cameroon but nationals in border zones live as if it didn't exist.Very good neighbours indeed.
The United Nations refugee agency today expressed its shock and sadness at the death of a colleague working for its government counterpart in eastern Chad who was killed in an ambush over the weekend.
There are indications that the Federal Government through the Nigeria/ Chad Joint Commission is set to intervene in the prolonged case of 62 indigenously owned trucks seized by some influential Chadian businessmen since 2002
The UN Refugee Agency is colour-coding villages red, yellow and green in eastern Chad marking how safe it is for internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return home: people from areas classified as green - "safe" - will no longer be considered as IDPs, but can remain in the camps.
The United Nations force seeking to provide security in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Chad, already at barely half its mandated strength, will be further constrained in the coming months due to the departure of some units, a top UN official warned today.
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