By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Tchadmedia
Clashes between two communities in the border area of Hadjer-Lamis and Bahr El-Ghazal provinces have killed 25 people and injured 22, according to Chadian authorities. Thirty-nine people arrested have been transferred to N’Djamena for further legal proceedings, following a ministerial visit to Ngoura on 31 October.
Two accidents on the Casablanca-Agadir motorway on Saturday 31 October killed four people and injured 32, four of them seriously. The collisions, one of which involved a coach and three other vehicles, disrupted traffic towards Agadir, according to Lebrief.
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At least seven people were killed and several others injured in a clash between two communities in Isné, in the department of Ngoura, Chad. The violence is said to be linked to a dispute over a well, while security forces have been deployed, according to local sources quoted by Tchadinfos.
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Clashes between the Chadian army and the Miski Self-Defence Committee broke out on 14 October in Tibesti, killing at least two officers from the mining brigade and injuring around a dozen people. Eighteen months after the April 2025 peace agreement, the army has deployed significant forces to the gold-producing region, RFI reports.
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Chad’s Public Security Ministry has banned motorbikes from travelling outside urban areas in the provinces of Hadjer-Lamis, Bahr el-Ghazel, Batha and Chari-Baguirmi until further notice. General Ali Ahmat Aghabache instructed territorial units to strictly enforce the measure, according to a message signed on 31 October.
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Chadian association denounces irregular plot allocations in N’DjamenaThe Association for Well-being and Community Development in Chad has denounced plot allocations it considers irregular in Ngonba, in N’Djamena’s Walia neighbourhood, and the resumption of work on land reserved for a public health centre. At a press briefing on 31 October 2026, its coordinator Bahyaba Mbellet Samson referred to a dispute lasting more than eight years, according to Alwihda Info.
Congolese experts review three days of Ebola response in KisanganiHealth experts from provinces affected by the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s 17th Ebola outbreak have completed a three-day review of the response to the Bundibugyo strain in Kisangani. Meeting from 29 to 31 October, they examined interventions and set priorities to improve coordination and speed of action, Beto reports.The week in Africa
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