Chad president 'in total control'
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Chad's president appears in public for the first time since an attempted coup, saying the government is in control.
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N'DJAMENA  - Troops loyal to Chad's president drove back rebels besieging his palace on Sunday, the government said, adding it had repulsed an assault by Sudanese forces in the east that it called "a declaration of war".
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Nine people have been arrested in Chad, accused of making an unauthorized attempt to fly more than 100 children out of the country
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Iraq's interim Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib said Monday he believed Iraq could establish full control of its internal security and borders within 18 months.
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Iraq's interim Interior Minister Falah  al-Naqib said Monday he believed the country could establish  full control of its internal security within 18 months.
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US Senator Barack Obama held talks in Chad with President Idriss Deby Itno on the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region and on Chad's oil production, on the final stop of the African-American politician's tour of the continent.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian President Idriss Deby vowed on Friday that nine French nationals detained for trying to smuggle out African children to live with European families would pay for their "horrible" crime.
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President of Chad indicates he is prepared to pardon six French aid workers convicted of the attempted kidnap of Sudanese child refugees
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N'DJAMENA  - The leader of a French aid group accused of trying to kidnap 103 African children in Chad told a court on Friday France's government had known from the start about the group's plans to rescue war orphans from Darfur.
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Senegal's president appeared to have won the country's election outright Wednesday, according to nearly complete results released by regional vote-counting centers and reported by the state-run news agency.
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Â· Broadcast from France aims at return to power Â· Former dictator blamed for thousands of deaths
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There is heavy fighting in eastern Chad two days after a state of emergency was declared.
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The French President looks set to win the freedom of six improperly imprisoned foreign medical personnel. But some suspect he's grandstanding
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N'DJAMENA  - A security crackdown since a bloody rebel attack on Chad's capital N'Djamena this month has forced half a dozen leading human rights campaigners into hiding or exile, activists say.
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The president of this West African country appeared to have a strong lead in the election Tuesday, garnering more than half the votes counted.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji died from a brain haemorrhage in Paris on Friday after he was flown there for urgent treatment following a heart attack. He was 56.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's army retook the eastern military center of Abeche on Sunday after the withdrawal of rebels who took the town a day earlier in the latest challenge to President Idriss Deby, the government and aid workers said.