Chad related content 

Europe must take the lead in ensuring that aid arrives to the millions of people starving in Africa's Sahel region. At the twin G8 and G20 summits in Canada this weekend,...

Chad and Darfur show how conflict management can go very wrong. For seven years, activists have called for help for the suffering in Darfur and Chad. After this month's...

The EU needs to weigh more carefully its decisions to engage in military operations. For the past year, European officials have debated if and how the EU should engage...

Russia to provide four helicopters to help Eufor in Chad; negotiations were “very professional”. Russia will supply the EU with four transport helicopters to help...

Difficult experiences in Chad, Afghanistan are focusing minds. The French presidency of the EU hopes to win political support for key elements of its defence agenda when EU...

UN may increase the number of peacekeepers in Chad and extend their reach. While the United Nations deliberates reinforcing its mission in Chad and the Central African...

Oxfam says mission to protect civilians needs to be “urgently adapted” to put fresh emphasis on policing. Civilians in Chad are being beaten, raped, robbed and forced...

Troop levels rise, but effectiveness in question. The arrival of 63 soldiers from Albania last week (21 July) has brought Eufor, the EU's peacekeeping force in Chad, up to...

Soldiers serving with the EU's military mission in Chad face sporadic attacks and have huge areas to patrol. The EU's military mission in Chad – Eufor – is the Union's...

Dealing with a new US president, improving relations with Russia and influencing events in Kosovo and Chad are just some of the challenges facing the French presidency. The...

Three battalions ready in the summer; eighteen nationalities on the ground by July. The EU's peacekeeping mission in Chad, Eufor, is approaching full operational capability...

Chad and Afghanistan are currently among the two most violent and conflict-ridden corners of the world. That is just about the only common ground between them, since they are...

EU peacekeepers are arriving in Chad, now that the government of President Idriss Déby has regained control of the capital, Ndjamena. Rebels briefly entered Ndjamena...

The dispatch of the European Union's peacekeeping mission to Chad has been delayed by last weekend's rebel attack on the capital N'djamena. Although an advance detachment of...

The European Union's ultra-cautious approach towards dealing with Kosovo is laudable, but the lack of a clear, bold position is as much an illustration of the EU's more...

The foreign ministers of the EU will formally launch the EU's much-delayed peacekeeping mission to Chad when they meet in Brussels next Monday (28 January), but defer a...

The EU's much delayed peacekeeping mission to Chad will be launched in the coming weeks, diplomats say, after participating countries agreed to provide helicopters and...

The killing of ten African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Darfur on 29-30 September has given military planners and analysts pause to consider the dangers of a forthcoming EU...

Sometime next month, European troops will start filing into Chad and the Central African Republic on the largest military mission the EU has undertaken since Bosnia, in...