Chad’s presidency says unidentified assailants have killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack on a military base in the country’s west.

Chad has sworn in Mahamat Deby Itno as the president on Thursday after holding elections earlier this month, completing a disputed transition to democratic rule after he seized power three years ago.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was gravely injured in an apparent assassination attempt that rocked the small country and the rest of Europe just weeks before an election.

Authorities in Chad have started the mass trial of hundreds of alleged rebels accused of killing longtime President Idriss Deby Itno.

West and Central African countries are battling deadly floods that have upended lives and livelihoods, raising fears of further disruption of food supplies in many areas battling armed conflict.

Chad’s government is clamping down on the country’s opposition a day after more than 60 people were killed in protests around the country.

Chadian security forces have opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the country’s two largest cities killing at least 60 people, the government spokesman and a morgue official said.

Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi are among the prominent figures assassinated in the 21st century.

Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday by a gunman who opened fire on him as he delivered a campaign speech on a street in western Japan, shocking the country.

Guinea's opposition leaders say the country's ousted president is to blame for the military coup in the West African nation a little over a week ago.

The military council that took over Chad in the aftermath of President Idriss Deby Itno's killing is pressing ahead with the announcement of key ministerial posts.

Hundreds of mourners have gathered in Chad's capital to bury some protesters killed this week during anti-government demonstrations.

Rebels seeking to overthrow Chad’s new transitional government are claiming to have shot down a military helicopter and say they now control the northern town of Nokou.

Thousands have protested and two people were killed in Chad in demonstrations against the rule of a transitional military council headed by the son of the late President Idriss Deby Itno, who was killed last week.

The killing of President Idriss Deby Itno has left his son in charge of the central African nation of Chad.

Chad’s military transitional government says it will not negotiate with the rebels blamed for killing the country’s president of three decades.

Chad’s political opposition is calling the handing of power to Mahamat Idriss Deby a “coup d’etat."

Rebels are threatening to depose the son of Chad's slain president after he was named interim leader of the central African nation.

President Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled Chad for more than 30 years and became an important ally to Western nations in the fight against Islamic extremism in Africa, has died.

A top military commander says that Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has been killed on the battlefield in a fight against rebels.

Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno is seeking to extend his three-decade long rule, running for a sixth time in this oil-producing Central African nation that is home to nearly half a million refugees and also plays a prominent role in the fight against Islamic extremism in the Sahel.