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Ali Bongo urges ECCAS colleagues to pay their subscription arrears

At the ECCAS summit on 1 July, current chairman Ali Bongo raised the delicate question of member states' subscription arrears.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 18.07.2023

COGINTA bags EU security contracts from Sahel to Mozambique

The Swiss NGO COGINTA is currently carrying out a range of European security missions in countries including Chad, Niger and Mozambique with the help of the former senior French gendarmes it employs.

Subscribers only Defence 10.07.2023

Rome plans to open an embassy in N'Djamena

Continuing to strengthen its diplomatic network in the Sahel, Rome has agreed to open an embassy in N'Djamena. The official opening is scheduled for 2024.

Subscribers only Diplomacy Running story - Chad post-Idriss Deby 04.07.2023

Biya and Déby poised to make deal behind Savannah Energy's back

Cameroon President Paul Biya (left) and his counterpart Mahamat Idriss Deby. © LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL/EPA/MaxPPP

Subscribers only Energy 28.06.2023

French court maintains freeze on FACT rebel leader assets

A Paris administrative court has rejected a bid to unfreeze the assets of Mahamat Mahdi Ali, the leader of Chad's Front pour l'Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad (FACT) rebel group.

Subscribers only Politics 26.06.2023

World Bank's Africa head strengthens his team

World Bank VP Ousmane Diagana has hired French technical cooperation agency Expertise France's deputy CEO Rima Le Coguic. She is expected to join the institution's West and Central Africa division over the next few weeks.

Subscribers only Finance 20.06.2023

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Turkish defence flagships cash in on N'Djamena's need for drones and aircraft

The Chad Air Force and its chief of staff, General Idriss Amine Ahmed, are preparing to take delivery of two Anka attack drones from Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). The group already delivered three Hurkus attack aircraft and has set up a technical team in Chad.

Subscribers only Defence 14.06.2023

Helicopter Atak, Plane Hurkus and drone Anka, designed and upgraded by Turkish Aerospace Industries, perform during Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's visit to Ankara, Turkey on 25 July 2019.

Déby asks Switzerland to help trigger rebel disarmament programme

Chad junta leader Mahamat Idriss Déby is banking on Bern to help convince donors to finance his country's disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme aimed at bringing former rebels back into the fold.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy 07.06.2023

ExxonMobil-Savannah: SNH boss Moudiki ups the ante in letter to Chadian oil minister

The head of Cameroon's Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures sent a scathing letter to Chad's oil minister. Since ExxonMobil's withdrawal from southern Chad, the battle between Savannah Energy and N'Djamena has rekindled a recurring conflict between Cameroon and the Chadian junta.

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2023

Mahamat Idriss Déby calls on Lebanon's Georges Tehini to bolster his electricity production

The deputy secretary general of the president's office, Mahamat Borgou Hassan, has thus invited Cetri's CEO, the Lebanese Georges Tehini to N'Djamena on 17 May to discuss a turnkey photovoltaic power plant project.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy 24.05.2023

Washington sides with ExxonMobil and Chevron over BEAC foreign currency rules

Washington has stepped up its efforts to prevent US oil companies from being obliged to repatriate their rehabilitation funds to the CEMAC zone.

Subscribers only Finance, Energy 18.05.2023

Fate of Griffiths Energy co-founder Naeem Tyab to be determined in August

A US court has set a sentencing hearing for 4 August for the co-founder of Griffiths Energy, whose company is suspected of paying $2m to Chadian officials to obtain oil permits.

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.2023

Delicate week of diplomacy in store for ECCAS

Tchad et Sao Tomé-et-Principe... Le programme est chargé en ce mois de mai pour les émissaires de la Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique centrale (CEEAC) qui s'apprêtent à vivre une intense semaine diplomatique.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 11.05.2023

N'Djamena calls for French reconnaissance flights along Sudanese border

Chadian president Mahamat Idriss Déby fears that the conflict in Sudan the rearmament and organisation of armed groups hostile to the government from Darfur.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 05.05.2023

EU suspends €10m in military aid

Following a diplomatic dispute between Chad and Germany, the EU has put a military aid package for the Chadian armed forces on hold.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 04.05.2023

Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh battles it out with SNH boss Adolphe Moudiki over Savannah Energy affair

The Cameroonian government has been caught up in an internal crisis since the SNH bought a 10% stake in the company running the oil pipeline between Doba and Kribi. In a series of letters seen by African Intelligence, presidency secretary general Ngoh Ngoh and SNH boss Moudiki have been locked in a violent dispute over the operation.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy, Politics 03.05.2023

Washington and Doha increasingly concerned about threat posed by armed groups in Libya

Numerous militia fighters from Darfur and Chad are present in Libya. For the time being, they have refrained from intervening in neighbouring Sudan but, if the hostilities there persist, one of the warring parties could be tempted to call them in.

Subscribers only Defence 03.05.2023

CEMAC weakened by hiatus at top of commission

The executive organ of the Central African bloc is being lead ad interim by Gabon's Daniel Ona Ondo, even though Baltasar Engonga Edjo of Equatorial Guinea was appointed to the post over a month ago.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy 01.05.2023

Kinshasa looks to review terms of engagement of EAC regional force

Following the expiry of the original agreement governing the deployment of the East African Community force in eastern DRC, the Congolese government, unhappy with its performance so far, is hoping to remove the ambiguities of its mandate.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 28.04.2023

Soldiers of the East African Community (EAC) regional force in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

ExxonMobil-Savannah: the behind-the-scenes story of Biya and Déby's feud

With N'Djamena in conflict with Savannah Energy, Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby pushed his Cameroonian counterpart not to legitimise the British junior's stake in the Doba-Kribi pipeline, which exports 100% of Chad's crude. In vain.

Subscribers only Energy 26.04.2023

Kinshasa awaiting $400m World Bank disbursement for road works

The World Bank is delaying its disbursement of some $400m for major road works projects in the DR Congo until Kinshasa files a "resettlement action plan" for the population that the construction works will impact.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Finance 26.04.2023

Beveraggi gains upper hand over Katumbi in NB Mining Africa dispute

The mining services firm remains at the heart of a protracted legal dispute between the French entrepreneur and the former governor of Katanga. The battle has recently swung in Beveraggi's favour and he is now recovering funds from Ecobank and Gécamines.

Subscribers only Business 21.04.2023

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Ali Bongo urges ECCAS colleagues to pay their subscription arrears

COGINTA bags EU security contracts from Sahel to Mozambique

Rome plans to open an embassy in N'Djamena

Biya and Déby poised to make deal behind Savannah Energy's back

French court maintains freeze on FACT rebel leader assets

World Bank's Africa head strengthens his team

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Turkish defence flagships cash in on N'Djamena's need for drones and aircraft

Déby asks Switzerland to help trigger rebel disarmament programme

ExxonMobil-Savannah: SNH boss Moudiki ups the ante in letter to Chadian oil minister

Mahamat Idriss Déby calls on Lebanon's Georges Tehini to bolster his electricity production

Washington sides with ExxonMobil and Chevron over BEAC foreign currency rules

Fate of Griffiths Energy co-founder Naeem Tyab to be determined in August

Delicate week of diplomacy in store for ECCAS

N'Djamena calls for French reconnaissance flights along Sudanese border

EU suspends €10m in military aid

Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh battles it out with SNH boss Adolphe Moudiki over Savannah Energy affair

Washington and Doha increasingly concerned about threat posed by armed groups in Libya

CEMAC weakened by hiatus at top of commission

Kinshasa looks to review terms of engagement of EAC regional force

ExxonMobil-Savannah: the behind-the-scenes story of Biya and Déby's feud

Kinshasa awaiting $400m World Bank disbursement for road works

Beveraggi gains upper hand over Katumbi in NB Mining Africa dispute

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N'Djamena justifies ExxonMobil asset nationalisation at Savannah Energy's expense

FATF-affiliated action group holds out hope for more World Bank aid

Macron's ruling majority falls out over top Francophonie job

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Chad

Ali Bongo urges ECCAS colleagues to pay their subscription arrears

COGINTA bags EU security contracts from Sahel to Mozambique

Rome plans to open an embassy in N'Djamena

Biya and Déby poised to make deal behind Savannah Energy's back

French court maintains freeze on FACT rebel leader assets

World Bank's Africa head strengthens his team

Spotlight Turkish defence flagships cash in on N'Djamena's need for drones and aircraft

Déby asks Switzerland to help trigger rebel disarmament programme

ExxonMobil-Savannah: SNH boss Moudiki ups the ante in letter to Chadian oil minister

Mahamat Idriss Déby calls on Lebanon's Georges Tehini to bolster his electricity production

Washington sides with ExxonMobil and Chevron over BEAC foreign currency rules

Fate of Griffiths Energy co-founder Naeem Tyab to be determined in August

Delicate week of diplomacy in store for ECCAS

N'Djamena calls for French reconnaissance flights along Sudanese border

EU suspends €10m in military aid

Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh battles it out with SNH boss Adolphe Moudiki over Savannah Energy affair

Washington and Doha increasingly concerned about threat posed by armed groups in Libya

CEMAC weakened by hiatus at top of commission

Kinshasa looks to review terms of engagement of EAC regional force

ExxonMobil-Savannah: the behind-the-scenes story of Biya and Déby's feud

Kinshasa awaiting $400m World Bank disbursement for road works

Beveraggi gains upper hand over Katumbi in NB Mining Africa dispute

Spotlight N'Djamena justifies ExxonMobil asset nationalisation at Savannah Energy's expense

FATF-affiliated action group holds out hope for more World Bank aid

Macron's ruling majority falls out over top Francophonie job

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Turkish defence flagships cash in on N'Djamena's need for drones and aircraft

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N'Djamena justifies ExxonMobil asset nationalisation at Savannah Energy's expense