Minister of Transport and Aviation Fatima Goukouni Weddeye welcomed the launch of the renovation project, expressing hope that the upgraded airport will attract more airlines and offer improved ...

I met the doctor at the clinic, Dr. Goukouni Bichara Ahmat, and he told me that the cases of severe acute malnutrition that they're seeing has really, really increased - he said about nine to 10 ...

According to Chad's transport minister, Fatimé Goukouni Weddeye, the bus was carrying 31 passengers. She says the accident was caused by driver's failure to comply with road safety rules in the ...

Habré seized power in 1982 from Goukouni Oueddei, a former rebel comrade who had won elections. It was widely believed that he was backed by the CIA, as a bulwark against Libya's then leader Colonel ...

He then wrestled power from Goukouni Oueddei, a former rebel comrade, in 1982. He remained in power until 1990 when rebels ousted him.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Chad's former dictator Hissene Habre, the first former head of state to be convicted of crimes against humanity by an African cour ...

Habré seized power in 1982 from Goukouni Oueddei, a former rebel comrade who had won elections. It was widely believed that he was backed by the CIA, as a bulwark against Libya's then leader ...

Returning to Chad in 1971, he joined the Chad National Liberation Front (Frolinat), of which he became the leader, before founding with another northerner, Goukouni Weddeye, the Council of the ...

The French assert that Libya provided logistical support to antigovernment rebels led by former President Goukouni Oueddei, operating below the 16th parallel or so-called ”red line” which ...

When civil war broke out in 1979, he joined Hissène Habré’s rebel faction, which opposed another rebel leader, Goukouni Oueddeye. African governments are cracking down on the news media.

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Idriss Deby came to power in 1990 after overthrowing Hissene Habre, who had seized power from Goukouni Oueddei, in an apparently unending cycle of coups and rebel putsches, each dubbed a “liberation”.