Home to one of the most diverse and vibrant people in the world, this landlocked country covers nearly 500,000 square miles ...

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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. The attack on Wednesday night ...

Chad’s capital was calm early on Thursday ... clothing and came from a poor neighbourhood in the south of the city, he said. Koulamallah described them as drunken “Pieds Nickelés ...

Chad has been a key counterterrorism force in ... new strategy that would sharply reduce its permanent troop presence in Africa.

Eighteen attackers were killed on the spot, and the body of one attacker was found Thursday morning on the city’s streets ... The attack took place after Chad's government on Wednesday ...

One soldier from the presidential guard also died in the exchanges with the commando unit and three were injured as tanks moved onto the city's streets ... hapless crooks. Chad faces regular ...

On board were some of the final 180 French military personnel still based in Chad. For them and for France ... power's military presence in sub-Saharan Africa since independence in 1960.

President Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday welcomed the "definitive and complete departure" of French forces from Chad which marks ... France's military presence in Africa and its last foothold ...