How a technologically escalating conflict is reshaping the security architecture of an entire region.
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The pattern has become grimly familiar across Africa: military coups followed by promises of democratic transition, then a return to authoritarianism. But...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The collapse of the G5 Sahel should serve as a wake-up call: African states cannot defeat violent extremism through fragmented, go-it-alone strategies....
By Princess C. Mutisya Not every day does a landlocked, fragile state stride into a desert capital and demand not just investment – but a new...
By Des H Rikhotso In a world where headlines often spotlight conflict and crisis, the story of Chad – a vast, resilient nation at the crossroads...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Eritrea: Honestly, I wasn’t even asking for the spotlight. Chad: Hey, I just held an election not too long ago. And wait...
By Mary Alorh The recent developments in Chad and Senegal regarding French military bases have sparked important discussions about the relationship between France and its former...
French Influence in Africa continues waning, as its former colonies redefine their strategic partnerships toward Russia. Chadian authorities indicated that it would end a key defense...
By Gregory Simpkins France, one of the European colonial powers that divided up the African continent at the infamous Belin Conference of 1885, is on the...
By Mary Alorh The shifting dynamics of global power over recent decades have profoundly impacted policies and diplomatic relations, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. African nations are...
Chad has announced the termination of its defence cooperation agreement with France, requiring French troops to leave the country. The decision, announced Thursday after French Foreign...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In 2022, Mali unilaterally withdrew from the G5 Sahel after the military alliance raised concerns about the country’s internal affairs. This decision...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Earlier this week, on Monday, September 16, 2024, the United States announced the complete withdrawal of its military forces and equipment from...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In December 1990, the late Idriss Déby, and his insurgent Patriotic Salvation Movement, overran the country’s capital, N’Djamena, having invaded from Libya...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Last year, I stumbled upon a video capturing a compelling exchange between a US Congressman and the Commander of the US Africa...
AFP | Former opposition leader Succes Masra returned from exile and signed a reconciliation deal with Deby Itno before becoming premier this year. The opposition says...
AFP | Succes Masra, president of The Transformers party, was a long-time opponent of the Deby dynasty but returned to Chad in November after reaching an...
Press Release | Central Africa holds some of Africa’s leading frontier markets for hydrocarbon exploration, featuring underexplored acreage, coupled with substantial proven oil and gas reserves....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu At the dawn of independence in Anglophone West Africa, the different states had to decide on the political systems they wanted. While...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When violent extremists swept across northern Mali in 2011 and 2012, the governments in Bamako and Niamey were particularly concerned. Something needed...
Reuters | Chad has nationalized all the assets and rights including hydrocarbon permits and exploration and production authorizations that belonged to a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil,...
Energy Capital & Power| The meetings saw Mohamed bin Twar discuss investment opportunities between Qatar and Uganda with Minister Abu Bakr that will serve to encourage Qatari...
Reuters | Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi will serve as a facilitator for the political transition process in Chad, Central Africa’s main regional body...
By Gregory Simpkins The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) June Global Trends reported that by the end of 2021, the number of people displaced...
Bloomberg | African governments are playing catch-up in vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus, with just 12 percent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people fully inoculated...
Representatives of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, known as CEMAC, have reached an important milestone in their efforts to put an end to roaming...
AP | Chad’s former president Hissène Habré, the first former head of state to be convicted of crimes against humanity by an African court after his...
Cameroon’s army has dealt a major blow to Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists, killing around 100 fighters and freeing 900 hostages in a 3-day operation. Flags belonging...
Former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré had to be carried into court and restrained by security guards on Monday as charges were read at the re-start of...
Chad and Niger launched a joint army operation against Boko Haram militants in Nigeria on Sunday, military sources said, intensifying a regional push to try to...
President Idriss Deby of Chad has informed the media during a press conference that the Chad military and government has narrowed down the location of al-Qaeda-linked...
The presidents of Cameroon and Chad on Friday concluded two days of meetings during which they fine-tuned plans and reiterated commitments to a declaration of war...
Cameroon said its soldiers have shot and killed five suspected poachers who had opened fire on elephants in the West Africa country. The military said some...
The economy of the six-nation Central African CEMAC bloc is set to expand by 6.7 percent in 2014 because of a rise in domestic consumption and...
(Reuters) – Chad’s Prime Minister Joseph Djimrangar Dadnadji (pictured), has resigned along with his cabinet on Thursday, a day before lawmakers from his own ruling majority...
Hissène Habré (Reuters) – Hissène Habré, Chad’s former leader, was arrested on Sunday in Senegal, where he has been living in freely in exile for 22...
Chad has arrested a group of people for conspiring in what the government described as a “destabilization plot” in the landlocked central African country, which has...
(Reuters) – A joint assault involving forces from Nigeria, Chad and Niger was assembled after intelligence that Islamist militants Boko Haram had moved into Baga, a...
Hissène Habré A special African court set up to try former Chadian President Hissène Habré for war crimes and crimes against humanity has officially began its...
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) as met with its African member states, as part of its continental fundraising efforts. The consultations on the fringes of...
A new national railway master plan to connect Cameroon to Chad, the Central African Republic, DR Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Angola as well as...
DAKAR, Senegal — Chad’s government on Friday called on Senegal to extradite Chad’s ex-president to Belgium to face trial, a move that clears another hurdle in...
