An attack on Chad’s presidential palace left 18 assailants dead and six in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded, state media reported Thursday.

Analysts say the lack of any strong opponent in the elections has consolidated President Mahamat Idriss Deby's grip on power.

Nineteen people died and six were injured ... the AFP news agency reported. Chad is a landlocked country in northern-central Africa which, since gaining independence from France in 1960, has ...

Set in a dry and dusty landscape, Mongo is a town of 40,000 people, in Chad, a landlocked country in central Africa. Average life expectancy, at 51, is about 30 years lower than in the UK.

Chadian troops were heavily deployed around the capital, N’Djamena, Thursday as officials said they were investigating a ...

Hundreds of people marched in Chad on Friday to call for the withdrawal of French troops from the country, a week after the Central African country ended a military agreement with its former ...

Its basin covers parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, and is a water source for between 20 million and 30 million people. 2) The Sahara Desert roughly covers one third of the country.

Tensions continue to mount in Chad, with opposition ... towns and villages warning people to stay home to avoid possible street violence. Chadians in the country’s capital, N'djamena, say ...

Chad's government has said security forces had thwarted an alleged effort to destabilise the country on Wednesday night, after a group of people attacked the presidential palace in the capital, ...

Chad’s ruling party took the majority of votes in last month’s parliamentary election that the main opposition party ...