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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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.

It is the world's largest displacement crisis: 13 million people have fled their homes in war-torn Sudan. In neighboring Chad, both refugees and locals cope with this extraordinary upheaval.

Chad's former prime minister, ... Messages were circulated, notably on social networks, calling on the population to arm themselves against other citizens," the prosecutor said.

France has some 1,000 troops in Chad who will likely now have to leave. Analysts suggested that could further open the door to influence of the Russian military, already present in Chad’s neighbors.