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Twenty people were killed on Thursday night when a passenger bus in Chad crashed into a truck that was broken down on the roadway, the government said on Friday. The bus had 31 people on board and was on its way from the capital N'Djamena to the eastern c...

   N'DJAMENA, Jan 27, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - Twenty people were killed and seven were injured, two critically, when their bus

Twenty people were killed and seven were injured, two critically, when their bus collided at high speed with a broken-down truck in central Chad, the transport ministry said on Friday.

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Twenty people were killed on Thursday night when a passenger bus in Chad crashed into a truck that was broken down on the roadway, the government said on Friday.

Twenty people were killed on Thursday night when a passenger bus in Chad crashed into a truck that was broken down on the roadway, the government said on Friday. It followed two bad accidents involving passenger buses this month in Senegal, in which 60 people were killed. "We need to reinforce awareness to prevent the risk of accidents," said Chad's transport ministry.

Reacting to the crackdown against today’s protests and the deaths of demonstrators, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa said: “Violent clashes occurred this morning between security forces and demonstrators in N’Djamena and elsewhere in the country. According to initial testimonies collected by Amnesty International, the security forces fired live ammunition […]

Demonstrations against the extension of a transitional period before elections turned violent.

This is "Japa" season for many Nigerians. “Japa” means to escape in Yoruba language. In this context, the word means “travel out of country”

One of Chad's largest rebel groups refused to sign a pledge to disarm and participate in a reconciliation dialogue. However, Foreign Minister Cherif Mahamat Zene told DW that the door remained open.