KOUFROUN, Chad, May 18 (Reuters) - Fleeing the village to escape from attackers, crossing a desert border, building a shelter from straw and rags, waiting for food aid: these are familiar ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth of vegetation, and rising temperatures since February 2025 speeding their ...

ABECHE, Chad , August 21 (UNHCR) - Stopping the Sahara desert from steadily taking over eastern Chad's still semi-arid Sahel zone is a major environmental challenge, what some would call a David and ...

The location is called Guelta d’Archie and it served as a place where people and animals could stop for water thousands of years ago. It is in the Ennedi Region of Northeastern Chad, and if you wanted ...

A desert warfare specialist, Chad's Hissene Habre seized power in 1982 and quickly embraced the role of ruthless dictator, with brutal atrocities the - A desert warfare specialist, ...

Fatima Tirap, adviser to the president of Chad. Photo courtesy of DeserTech. The GGW is an African-led movement to grow an 8,000-kilometer wall of vegetation to mitigate climate change, drought, ...

Chad's newly elected President and junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby looks on during his inauguration ... and final results by Jan. 31, 2025, in the large, mainly desert Central African nation.

One of those countries is Chad, where West Africa Bureau Chief Krista Larson, ... Beyond Chad,the story also focused on places such as Haiti and Burkina Faso,which have also yet to administer a single ...

Blinken's visit to the Sahel region was the fourth to Africa by a senior U.S. figure this year as Washington eyes ramping up its ties with the continent. The U.S. leader has also pledged $150 ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The bodies of 27 migrants including four children have been found in the Chadian desert, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday, adding that it is ...

The Pentagon said Thursday that the majority of U.S. troops in Niger and Chad will be withdrawn as the U.S. works to restore agreements with the countries as to the American military's role there.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will pull the majority of its troops from Chad and Niger as it works to restore key agreements governing what role there might be there for the American ...