Since October 1998, Chadian Movement for Justice and Democracy ( MDJT ) rebels, led by Youssuf Togoimi until his death in September 2002, have skirmished with government troops in the Tibesti region, resulting in hundreds of civilian, government, and rebel casualties, but little ground won or lost.

Hot spots in the present civil war. The war started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the " common enemy ," which the Chadian government sees as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty ( RDL ) militants, Chadian rebels, backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese militiamen.

" This attack was the final straw that led to the declaration of war by Chad and the alleged deployment of the Chadian airforce into Sudanese airspace, which the Chadian government denies.

On November 26, 2006, the Chadian government claimed to have recaptured both towns, although rebels still claimed control of Biltine.

French forces flew in ammunition for Chadian government troops but took no active part in the fighting.

During the Libyan civil war, after meeting with high-level representatives of the Chadian government, United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that N ' Djamena opposes Gaddafi and has reached out to the rival National Transitional Council in rebel-held Benghazi.

A statement issued by Chadian government on December 23, accused Sudanese militias of making daily incursions into Chad, stealing cattle, killing innocent people and burning villages on the Chadian border.

** Civil war in Chad ( 2005 – present ) – involved Chadian government forces and several Chadian rebel groups.

Tombalbaye succeeded Gabriel Lisette as head of the Chadian Progressive Party ( PPT ), heading Chad's colonial government from 1959.

In September 2005 the government of Chad declared that a state of war existed with Sudan, after Sudan hosted Chadian rebel groups that were behind fatal cross border raids.

* French Air Force Jaguar ground-attack aircraft help the government of Chad beat back an invasion from Libya by Chadian rebel and Libyan troops.

As in other Chadian regions, Mao is ruled by both a traditional Sultan and by central government officials.

The frontier claimed by the Chadian government was based on a 1955 treaty between France and Libya, which, in turn, referred back to an 1899 agreement between Great Britain and France about " spheres of influence ".

The Petroleum Revenue Oversight and Control Committee or Collège de Contrôle et de Surveillance des Ressources Pétrolières is a Chadian government watchdog committee in charge of overseeing the government's use of petrol reserves and revenues.

In 1965 the Chadian government assumed direct authority over the Tibesti Mountains, sending a military garrison and administrators to Bardaï, the capital of Tibesti Subprefecture.

The first to be born was the radical Chadian Progressive Party ( PPT ) in February 1947, initially headed by Panamanian born Gabriel Lisette, but from 1959 headed by François Tombalbaye.

Although Chadian society is economically, socially, and culturally fragmented, the country's geography is unified by the Lake Chad Basin.

They are used to strike enemy positions by the Chadian Air Force, but one has been shot down by rebels.

The Foreign relations of Chad are motivated primarily by the desire for outside investment in Chadian industry and support for Chadian President Idriss Déby.

Investigators found that a bomb placed in the cargo hold by Chadian rebels backed by Libya was responsible for the explosion ; in 1999 a French court convicted six Libyans, including the former Libyan intelligence chief, Abdullah Senussi, in absentia, of planning and implementing the attack.

This claim was disputed by at least one foreign policy analyst, who brought up previous remarks made by Ambassador Daoussa Déby, the Chadian president's half-brother, and said, " Déby's words seem to echo Gaddafi's claims that the terrorist group al-Qaeda masterminded the national uprising in Libya.

* August 31 – In the aftermath of the Chadian – Libyan conflict of 1978-87, representatives of Libya and Chad agreed to let the International Court of Justice determine ownership of the Aouzou Strip, which had been occupied by Libya since 1973.

Patassé's ruling party accused Chadian president Idriss Déby of destabilizing the Central African Republic by supporting Bozizé with men and equipment.

In the late 1960s, a highly regarded wildlife reserve was destroyed by Chadian rebels, although many native wildlife specimens survived, including elephants and giraffes.

A day later, both cities were retaken by the Chadian army.

The more conservative Chadian Democratic Union ( UDT ) was founded in November 1947 and represented French commercial interests and a bloc of traditional leaders composed primarily of Muslim and Ouaddaïan nobility.

Category: French people of Chadian descent

He was instrumental in developing Chadian support for the Free French in 1940.

Under Chadian law, Laal — like all languages of Chad other than French and Arabic — is regarded as a national language.

She was the Ambassador to Cameroon, and is currently First Secretary at the Chadian Embassy in Nigeria.

After a successful offensive in November 1990, Déby and the MPS came to power on December 2, 1990, when their forces entered N ' Djamena, the Chadian capital.

Around 40, 000 ( 1998 ) members of the Tumari subgroup, sometimes called Kanembu in Niger, are a distinct Kanuri subgroup living in the N ' guigmi area, and are distinct from the Chadian Kanembu people.

On January 24, 2007, Air West Flight 612, a Boeing 737 with 95 passengers and 8 crew on board, was hijacked and diverted to the Chadian capital of N ' Djamena.

The American International School of N ’ Djamena ( AISN ) is a small international school in the Chadian capital, N ' Djamena.

In April 2006, the Chadian rebel group United Front for Democratic Change, which is based in Darfur used C. A. R.

* Western Armed Forces (), a Chadian insurgent group

** The Chadian Muslim insurgent group FROLINAT is founded in Sudan, starting the Chadian Civil War.

* Chadian People ’ s Revolutionary Movement, a Chadian rebel group that operated in the 1980s

Initial speculation over which groups might have been responsible for destroying UTA Flight 772 centered upon Islamic Jihad, who were quick to claim responsibility for the attack, and the " Secret Chadian Resistance " rebel group, which opposed president Hissen Habré.

* People's Armed Forces ( Forces Armées Populaires ), a Chadian insurgent group

* The Kuka people, a Chadian ethnic group