The Latest Breaking News from Chad

As elections approach in Chad, the country’s civil society fears that nothing will change. The vote should mark the country's transition back to democracy after three years of military government, but the opposition says France, which has a military presence there, has an interest in maintaining the status quo.

Chad's junta-appointed prime minister announced Sunday that he would contest presidential elections set for May 6, just days after incumbent General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno announced his own candidacy.

Chad's transitional president Mahamat Idriss Déby on Saturday confirmed his candidacy for a long-awaited May 6 presidential vote, just three days after his chief rival was killed in murky circumstances.

Chad's main opposition party on Friday accused soldiers of having executed its leader "at point blank range" in an assault on its headquarters ahead of a long-promised May election.

Opposition party members have been killed or injured as the ruling military government continues a crackdown.

The announcement comes a day after heavy gunfire erupts in N’Djamena near the headquarters of Yaya Dillo’s party.

People in West Darfur’s capital still step over residue from the bodies of some of the 10,000 dead, and thousands have fled

In tonight's edition: Several people are killed in Chad in an attack on the national security agency’s office. The government blames an opposition party. Also, the ICC orders more than €52 million in reparations for tens of thousands of victims of Ugandan commander Dominic Ongwen, who's serving 25 years in…

Sporadic shots were heard Wednesday in Chad's capital near the headquarters of an opposition party, accused by the government of an overnight attack on the internal security agency's offices which left several dead.