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.

Africa's largest natural arch is located deep in the remote Sahara Desert, on the Ennedi Plateau in Chad, and reaching it is quite an adventure.

Chad is a landlocked country in northern-central Africa which, since gaining independence from France in 1960, has seen frequent periods of instability and fighting, most recently between ...

Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno accused Macron of being "in the wrong era", saying he wanted "to express my outrage" on remarks "which border on contempt for Africa and Africans".