July 17

• Chad: Chad Returnees Strain Aid Resources

  Thousands of Chadians, most of them children, have returned home, fleeing insecurity in parts of neighbouring Central Africa Republic (CAR), Darfur, Libya and Nigeria. Read more »

April 12

• Chad: Regional Insecurity Adding to Chad's Humanitarian Needs

  Chad is grappling with an influx of refugees and returnees into its south-eastern regions, mainly from neighbouring Sudan, and others from the Central African Republic (CAR)... Read more »

March 08

• Libya: Chadian Migrants Rue Libyan Detention, Ill-Treatment, Deportation

  In the violence immediately before and after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in October 2011, thousands of sub-Saharan migrants were forced to flee. Since then, however,... Read more »

February 09

• Senegal: Habré Investigations Mark Turning Point for African Justice

  The special court set up to try ex-Chadian President Hissène Habré officially opened its investigations on 8 February in Senegal, making it the first time a former... Read more »

January 30

• Chad: Chad Averts Locust Threat

  Chad has eliminated the threat of a full-scale locust invasion in its northern region, a pastoralist zone dotted with oases that provide water for small-scale farming, says the... Read more »

January 29

• Chad: Difficult Recovery After Floods

  A scattering of utensils, a pile of clothes and a small bag of millet flour lay on the floor of Amne Abakar's roofless cloth-and-sticks shelter in Toukra camp on the outskirts of... Read more »

January 24

• Chad: Health System Struggles to Combat Malnutrition

  As darkness fell in the central-southern Chadian town of Bokoro, the very last patient, a listless girl, left a makeshift clinic run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)... Read more »

December 19, 2012

• Central African Republic: Hundreds Flee As Rebels Advance

  A new alliance of three rebel groups in the Central African Republic (CAR), which has taken control of five towns in northern-central areas, could jeopardize a complex peace... Read more »

November 05, 2012

• Chad: Analysis - Is U.S. Action Against Use of Child Soldiers On the Backburner? [analysis]

  The Child Soldier Prevention Act (CSPA) was a prime example of US bipartisan human rights legislation: sponsored by Democratic and Republican senators and signed into law in 2008... Read more »

October 26, 2012

• Chad: Floods, Locusts Add to Humanitarian Challenges

  The number of flood-affected people in Chad has risen to 700,000, up from 445,000 in September, according to humanitarian agencies, which also report the loss or damage of 255,720... Read more »

October 15, 2012

• Nigeria: Nigeria-Chad - Child Migrants Reuniting With Families

  Most of the Chadian Koranic students who fled Boko Haram related violence in northern Nigeria to return to their country in March 2012, have now been reunited with their parents,... Read more »

October 09, 2012

• Central Africa: Boost for Peace as Chad Rebels Disband

  Preparations for the repatriation of 3,000 followers of a Chadian former rebel leader have started in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). If successful, the... Read more »

September 07, 2012

• Chad: Floods Affect Tens of Thousands

  Tens of thousands of people have been affected by flooding in parts of central, eastern and southern Chad following heavy rains in August. Thousands of hectares of crops and... Read more »

August 09, 2012

• Chad: IDPs Face Homecoming Hurdles

  Efforts to find "durable solutions" for many of the tens of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) in eastern Chad by the end of 2012 are being frustrated by poor... Read more »

July 13, 2012

• Chad: The Strains of Long-Term Displacement

  Djabal refugee camp in eastern Chad, where some residents have stayed for nearly a decade after fleeing violence in neighbouring Sudan, illustrates some of the family and social... Read more »

June 26, 2012

• Chad: Tackling Malnutrition Amid Increased Food Insecurity

  In the outskirts of Moussoro, the main town in the western Chad region of Bahr-el-Ghazal, mothers line up with their babies in the sweltering heat waiting to be screened for... Read more »

April 16, 2012

• West Africa: Is Sustainable Agriculture Possible in the Sahel?

  With drought conditions chronic in the Sahel, many farmers give up trying to grow crops and head to towns and cities to find work. Read more »

March 29, 2012

• West Africa: Hunger Affecting 10 Million as Dry Season Approaches

  Hunger has come again to the Sahel. "Since yesterday I have only drunk water," said Houley Dia, 60, a widow who lives in Houdallah, a village of the Fula ethnic group in southern... Read more »

March 19, 2012

• Chad: Fighting Malnutrition With 'Dysfunctional' Health Sector

  Hovering at around 20 percent in some places, Kanem Region in western Chad is well-known for having some of the world's highest continual severe acute malnutrition rates.... Read more »

March 13, 2012

• Chad: Food Runs Out As Aid Fails to Arrive

  Late Chadian government recognition of a food crisis, a slow build-up from aid agencies, and severe pipeline constraints due to closed Libyan and Nigerian borders mean food aid has... Read more »

March 06, 2012

• Chad: Migrants Fleeing Boko Haram Violence Await Aid

  Some 1,000 Chadian migrants - most of them children separated from their families - are waiting for aid in the village of N'Gbouboua in the Lac region of western Chad having fled... Read more »

February 28, 2012

• Central African Republic: Onslaught on Chad Rebels Displaces Thousands

  A joint military offensive between the armed forces of the Central African Republic (CAR) and Chad to oust Chad's Front Populaire pour le Redressement (FPR) rebel movement from its... Read more »

January 31, 2012

• Chad: Why Polio Is So Hard to Eliminate [analysis]

  Poor-quality emergency immunization campaigns and low routine polio immunization coverage are helping the polio virus to spread in Chad, with 132 cases reported in 2011 - five... Read more »

January 11, 2012

• Central African Republic: Armed Chad Group Threatens North

  Among the most pressing security threats in the Central African Republic (CAR) is a Chadian armed group active in the north of the country, which allegedly continues to recruit and... Read more »

September 20, 2011

• Niger: Lean Season Awaits Migrants Escaping Libya

  While the world's politicians conjure up fears of a "tsunami of migrants" flooding Europe, in reality it is Libya's economically vulnerable and chronically food-insecure neighbours... Read more »