Moki Edwin Kindzeka

Chad opposition protests final election results won by transitional president’s party

Opposition insists another transitional government should be formed and transparent elections organized to end the 3-decade Deby family rule

Gabon dispatches government ministers to encourage voter registrations

The planned elections are envisioned to end a two-year transition to civilian rule

Cameroon says host villages attacked people displaced by Boko Haram

Five people were killed and hundreds left homeless in attacks this week

Chad investigates failed attack on presidential palace

Government troops foiled an attack by 24 heavily armed assailants on Wednesday night, officials say

Chadian leaders denounce Macron's remarks, order French troops out of Chad this month

Macron said Monday that African nations failed to say thank you to France for deploying its military to the Sahel region

Cameroon says Nigerian militant attack killed government troops

Cameroon conducts a border search-and-rescue mission after homes were burned

Cameroon officials say country's military seized weapons from terrorists re-arming Boko Haram  

Chadian opposition says elections should be canceled, calls for new transition

Elections were scheduled to end Chad's three-year transition period following death of longtime President Idriss Deby Itno

Chad opposition, civil society vow to disrupt Sunday elections 

Chadians in the country’s capital, N'djamena, say uncertainty looms in the central African state ahead of elections slated to take place Sunday

Chad’s online journalists decry ban ahead of December 29 elections

Journalists reporting for online media platforms say they are surprised that Chad's High Media and Audiovisual Authority has refused to respect a Supreme Court decision ordering an immediate end to a ban on broadcasting online media content

Chadian election officials ask military for protection ahead of vote

Opposition supporters reportedly have used clubs and iron bars to prevent the ruling MPS party from holding rallies

Chad military frees abducted Cameroonians, while troops deployed to secure border

Chad's military says it has deployed several hundred troops along border with Cameroon to stop rebels from abducting civilians after armed men kidnapped a dozen Cameroonians

Sub-Saharan officials say reducing fish imports creates local jobs

Officials, meeting in Cameroon, say their goal is to invest some of what they collectively spend on importing fish each year, and put that funding into developing local fish farms

Cameroon truck drivers ask military to protect goods destined for CAR

Several hundred truck drivers say they’re stranded at border

Chad activists fight violence against women

Clerics, traditional rulers are targets of educational campaign to prevent early marriages, sexual abuse

Chad orders French troops' departure, triggers fresh anti-French military sentiment

Chad’s president is ending the country’s defense cooperation agreements with France

Central African Republic applauds extension of peacekeepers' mandate

Civil society groups say UN peacekeepers will protect civilians from rebels during parliamentary and local elections set for next April

Early reports say a majority of voters in Gabon cast ballots to end military rule

Gabon’s military says it deployed troops Saturday to towns and villages and reinforced an ongoing dusk-to-dawn curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. to protect civilians and make sure there is peace and civilians are protected before, during and after the voting

Chad says Boko Haram fighters fleeing to neighboring states

State TV reports fighters fled after clashes with Chadian forces over weekend that killed more than 100 Boko Haram fighters as well as close to 20 Chadian soldiers

Chad says airstrikes kill scores of Boko Haram fighters

The Islamist militant group killed 40 Chadian soldiers in an attack on a military garrison last month