The report , released annually by the defence analytics website Global Firepower, uses over 60 factors to measure military ...

Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Home to over 200 ethnic groups who speak over 100 languages, it is not hard to see why Chad has earned the ...

Chad deployed dozens of security forces in the capital amid rising tensions on Monday as polls closed and vote counting began in the first presidential election in Africa's Sahel region since a ...

Chad has been run by Mahamat Idriss Déby since April 2021, when his father, Idriss Déby, was killed on the battlefield by rebels. The older man had seized power in an armed rebellion in 1990.

But the preliminary results announced by Chad’s National Elections Management Agency depicted a resounding victory for the other side. Mr. Déby, it said, won 61 percent of the vote, and Mr ...