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TOUKRA, Chad, Sept 12 (Reuters) - In a makeshift open-air classroom, ... Around 7% of the central African nation's population of about 16 million are nomads, ...
Sudan's civil war has overwhelmed a border town in neighboring Chad. Nearly a quarter-million refugees have arrived in Adre ...
Chad was already hosting around 450,000 refugees from Sudan, the Central African Republic, and Nigeria. Poverty and vulnerability are widespread in Chad, with 44.8% of the population living below the ...
It is estimated that life expectancy in Chad is only 53 years. Only 22 percent of Chad's population is literate, six percent have access to electricity, and eight percent have access to basic ...
In eastern Chad, the U.N. Population Fund, or UNFPA, supports the health care system by training and deploying midwives to rural areas where there are no health services and by providing mobile ...
In one refugee settlement in Chad, estimates are that 97% of the Sudanese residents are women and children. Here's how four women there are mourning the loss of a partner and struggling to get by.