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[MSF] Tine, Chad -- Drone strikes carried out by Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied groups continue to hit civilian areas along the Sudanese border with Chad. Since early February 2026, 457 people injured in attacks have been treated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in collaboration with Chad's Ministry of Health staff in the border city of Tine. Amid insecurity and lack of sufficient resources to provide medical support, we are warning about the dire impact on

[Vanguard] PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed Nigeria's commitment to strengthening security cooperation with neighbouring Chad and has pledged renewed joint action to combat terrorism and banditry across the Lake Chad region.

[RFI] Russian operatives worked in Chad in 2024 to pull the country closer to Moscow and away from Western influence, internal documents reviewed by an international media consortium reveal. The papers show efforts to build ties with Chadian authorities, spread anti-Western narratives and target opposition figure Succès Masra during a tense election year.

[RFI] Chad has begun the emergency relocation of refugees from its border with Sudan as the army prepares to deploy to the area in response to cross-border attacks, an official from the country's refugee agency said on Monday.

[People's Dispatch] After a drone originating from the war-torn Sudan struck a Chadian town, the Chadian government shut its border and ordered military retaliation against any future attacks.

[Dabanga] El Tina / N'djamena / Mabrouka -- Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby has ordered the immediate closure of Chad's 1,300-kilometre border with Sudan and placed the military on maximum alert following a deadly drone strike on a border town, yesterday.

[Dabanga] Adré, Eastern Chad -- More than three-quarters of Sudanese refugee families in Chad say the their children have dropped out of school since fleeing the conflict. A new survey by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has found that 76 per cent of Sudanese refugee households surveyed in Chad reported that their children were no longer attending school because of the crisis. About 41 per cent of the families surveyed have children of school age, highlighting the scale of the disruption to education.

[RFI] The Chadian government has responded to accusations of repression by its security services, voiced by civil society organisations at the United Nations earlier this month, telling RFI that alleged abuses are referred to the courts.

[Ayin Network] Sudanese refugees in Adré, the largest refugee settlement based in Chad along the Sudan-Chad border, were cautiously optimistic after authorities announced the temporary opening of the road linking the two countries. "Even today, early in the morning, we were told that the road had reopened," said Mariam Abdel-Karim Adam, a trader and refugee based in Adré. "People began to move their goods. I also went early in the morning to see the situation myself and found that people had already

[Shabelle] N'djamena -- Chad has officially closed its border with Sudan, saying the move is aimed at preventing the three-year conflict in its eastern neighbour from spilling into its territory, authorities said.

[ACSS] Chad's growing entanglement in Sudan's civil war is heightening domestic instability and exposing the country to intensifying regional rivalries and geopolitical competition.

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