0746 GMT May 25, 2022
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Protesters set French flags on fire over support for military
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At least two people were killed and 27 injured in Chad on Tuesday as demonstrators took to the streets demanding a return to civilian rule after the military took control following President Idriss Deby's death last week.
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Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed Tuesday on the battlefield in a fight against rebels, the military announced on national television and radio.
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The Chadian Army said Monday it had killed 300 rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, adding that it had lost five of its soldiers.
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Chad headed into presidential elections on Sunday with Idriss Deby Itno, ruler for the last three decades, set to win a sixth term.
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More than 30 people have died in northern Chad after Arab fighters, crossing from neighboring Libya, attacked miners in a region in the grip of a gold rush, rights activists said Sunday.
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday Washington was considering lifting a travel ban on Chad, offering an olive branch to a key ally in the fight against terrorist groups in West Africa.
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The government in Chad has announced the closure of its border with Libya, citing security reasons and the terrorists’ possible infiltration into the Central African country from the south of conflict-stricken Libya.
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Hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists and their families have surrendered in Chad in the past month, security and UN sources said, in a sign the military campaign against them is making headway.
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Chad has sent some 2,000 troops to neighboring Niger to help the fight against Boko Haram following last week’s terrorist attacks by the Takfiri militants in the Nigerien town of Bosso.
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Nearly 40 people have been killed in three explosions in the Chadian city of Baga Sola near the border with Nigeria.
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Suspected gunmen from Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist group killed 11 soldiers in an attack over the border in Chad early on Tuesday, a Chadian military source said.
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Boko Haram terrorists operating out of Nigeria raided a village across the border in southern Niger and massacred at least 15 civilians, Niger security sources said on Friday.
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Officials in Chad have launched a sweeping security clampdown in the capital, N’Djamena, in the wake of purported Boko Haram attacks in the city.
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Officials from Niger said the Boko Haram Takfiri militants have carried out an attack against the country’s army soldiers in Lake Chad.
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