It is pitch black; the sun has not yet risen, but Achta Abakar Ibrahim is kneeling outside her straw home in Djabal refugee camp in southeastern Chad, praying to God.

The U.N. High Commission for Refugees says that in the five years since camps were established in Southern Chad for Central African refugees, U.N.-administered agriculture programs have reduced external food assistance to a minimum.

You're 11 years old. Your little brother and sister watch in muted shock as your parents fight to such intense levels that they both just walk out, leaving you all to fend for yourselves.

Senegal's justice minister has suggested dropping a case against former Chad President Hissen Habre.

The United Nations Standing Police Capacity (SPC) has wrapped up its first start-up mission, training recruits for a specialized police unit in Chad that will be responsible for protecting some 300,000 refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the east of the strife-torn country.

Children continue to be the primary victims of the conflict in Chad, whether they are recruited as soldiers, killed or hurt by landmines or denied humanitarian access, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon writes in a report made public today.

Torrential rain in the Chadian capital N'djamena has caused serious flooding that has cut off parts of the suburbs from the city centre.

The top United Nations official in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) is convening two days of international talks starting today that are aimed at finding ways to help support the nascent UN peacekeeping mission being deployed to the strife-torn African countries.

After aid supplies were burnt and looted during fighting in eastern Chad in mid-June, a United Nations emergency fund has stepped in to replace the supplies with a grant of $1.2 million.

Deaths from unexploded ordnance (UXO) are on the rise in Chad according to Karline Kleijer, head of programmes for Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), speaking to IRIN the day after seven people were killed and up to 17 wounded when a bomb exploded in N'djamena's main market on 4 August in the second incident involving unexploded ordnance (UXO) in two days.

Some 231 Chadian police officers today completed a United Nations programme which trained them to ensure the safety and security of an estimated 250,000 refugees and 180,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in the east of the country.

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Monsignor Jude Okolo as apostolic nuncio to Chad and the Central African Republic.

As a move towards establishing stronger communication ties between the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and her Chadian counterpart, the two unions have signed a Memorandum of Understanding.