Chad
Portrait of Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry. Photo by Joao Cardoso, used with permission. A pivot country located in the Sahel between North Africa and Central Africa, Chad is rarely discussed in the media as a literary territory. To remedy this gap, Global Voices interviewed the author Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry, one of the most visible representatives of French-speaking Chadian literature. Born in Moundou in southern Chad, Ndjékéry lives in Switzerland where he has devoted himself entirely to writing since April 2021?. To this day, he has published nine books, the two last being “Il n’y a pas d’arc-en-ciel...
Global Voices
The headquarters of the National Office of Audio-visual Media (ONAMA) in N’Djaména, Chad; Photo by Jean Sovon, used with permission. With less than two months to go before the presidential elections on May 6, 2024, journalists are facing death threats in Chad, a country where press freedom and freedom of expression are still at risk. In 2023, Chad ranked 109th out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom index. Journalists in the country face threats and restrictions when covering sensitive topics, particularly under the transitional authority led by Mahamat Idriss...
Global Voices
A ruinous conflict raging for about a year between rival generals in Sudan risks creating the world’s largest hunger crisis, the top UN food official warned on Wednesday. While global attention has been focused on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Cindy McCain, head of the World Food Program, said the fighting in Sudan has shattered the lives of millions across the north-eastern African nation. “The war in Sudan risks triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis,” McCain said as she wrapped up a trip to neighbouring South Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of Sudanese have fled the fighting in the...
Euronews (English)
La guerra empuja a Sudán a la hambruna. Cerca del 40% del país está devastado por el conflicto y afronta una crisis humanitaria extrema por la escasez de agua, alimentos y medicinas. A menos que cesen los combates, unos 7 millones de desplazados internos se enfrentan a la mayor crisis de hambre del mundo, advirtió la directora ejecutiva del Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) de las Naciones Unidas, Cindy McCain. El hambre en #Sudán corre el riesgo de volverse más letal que los propios combates a medida que la crisis humanitaria se extiende a los países vecinos. Si no se toman medidas, el futu...
Euronews (Spanish)
El presidente de Chad, Mahamat Déby, da el pésame a Vladímir Putin por los soldados rusos muertos en el avión estrellado este miércoles en la región de Bélgorod. Las palabras del presidente chadiano han sido censuradas en Rusia por contradecir la versión oficial del Kremlin que únicamente se refiere a la muerte de 65 prisioneros ucranianos que iban a ser intercambiados. Putin apoyó la cuestionada presidencia de Déby: "Estamos siguiendo de cerca la situación que se está desarrollando en su país. Usted sabe que seguimos con gran preocupación lo que estaba sucediendo en cuanto a la lucha contra l...
Euronews (Spanish)
Washington (AFP) - The United States on Friday promised $103 million for Sudan and neighboring countries to support displaced people as a month of war between rival generals triggers a humanitarian crisis. Samantha Power, chief of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), announced the new assistance on a visit to Chad, which before the latest fighting was already the host of some 600,000 refugees, mostly from Sudan. USAID said it was committing $50 million to address needs inside Sudan as well as $22 million for South Sudan, $17 million for Chad and $6 million for Egypt. In Chad, t...
AFP
N'Djamena (AFP) - Chad's military ruler Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday visited a hospital and a protest-hit district of N'Djamena, his office said, after a day of unprecedented violence that left around 50 people dead in the capital and elsewhere. Tensions eased on Friday after Chad's ruling junta announced an overnight curfew on Thursday, following fatal clashes eariler in the day between police and demonstrators protesting against the military's grip on power. The violence came on the heels of a national forum organised by Deby that extended his military government's grip on power beyond Thur...
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Washington (AFP) - Chad's former ambassador to the United States and his ex-deputy have been indicted for allegedly accepting a $2 million bribe from a Canadian start-up energy company, the Justice Department said Monday. Mahamoud Adam Bechir, the former ambassador, and Youssouf Hamid Takane, the former deputy chief of mission, were indicted by a federal grand jury, the department said in a statement. Between August 2009 and July 2014, while they were serving at the embassy of Chad in Washington, they allegedly demanded the bribe from the Canadian company in exchange for helping it obtain oil ...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - The IMF is continuing meetings to restructure Chad's debt, the fund spokesman said Thursday, despite the country being run by a military junta after the death of President Idriss Deby Itno in battle. "I can tell you the creditor committee had a technical meeting earlier this week, and a follow-up meeting is planned for next week," Gerry Rice told reporters at the IMF headquarters in Washington. Chad in January became the first country to request debt restructuring under a new mechanism established last year by the G20 as it dealt with a heavy debt burden exacerbated by the d...
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