Also at risk are members of the Zaghawa ethnic group, a cross-border minority in Chad and Sudan that has been targeted by the Sudanese government and its “Janjaweed” militia in Darfur.

Chad is extending for six months a state of emergency in large swathes of the country, saying it needs more time to pacify ethnic conflicts that have killed hundreds and which it blames Sudan for ...

(New York)- The governments of Chad and Sudan support armed groups that are committing serious crimes against civilians in eastern Chad, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today ...

Eastern Chad is in the grip of a cycle of violence between nomadic camel herders – many from the Zaghawa ethnic group from which Deby hails – and sedentary farmers from the Ouaddian community.

At least 37 people have been killed in fresh fighting this week between farmers and herders from rival ethnic groups in Chad, President Idriss Deby said on Friday. The violence broke out over ...

The fires of ethnic cleansing in Darfur are now raging in eastern Chad. Eighteen villages have been systematically set on fire here in the last 10 days. As the violence spreads, some are asking ...

More than 200 people were killed in a spate of attacks in eastern Chad earlier this week, aid workers say. They say five villages were attacked in a three-day assault by 200 men on horseback, armed ...

Chad's Tibesti Mountains, where around 100 people have been killed in fighting between goldminers, is a lawless frontier region in the heart of the Sahara, where even water is part of a lucrative ...

There are new reports of violence, characterized as farmer-herder conflict, in Chad. According to Agence France Presse and Voice of America, thirty-five have died [French] since May 16 in separate ...

More than 100 people were killed in clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs in southeast Chad last week, the government said on Tuesday, and it accused Arab militia raiders from Sudan of stirring up ...