A state of emergency has been declared for the floods that are affecting over one million people in the country; with about half of the city under water, residents of N'Djamena are building dams and using canoes to leave flooded areas

Hundreds of Chadian protesters told of being severely mistreated while in Koro Toro prison, detained following mass protests against the military junta in October last year

Young author Amine Badjoury Abbanou presented his first book entitled 'Mes écrits qui crient' - "My writings that scream", a 76-page collection of poems, in the large meeting room of the RePER project in Mongo, Guera province

The Children's Light association organised a ceremony to accompany young Anicet, whose eyes were gouged out by individuals, to the boarding school of the Centre for Education and Training of the Visually Impaired and Blind

Bodies of 27 migrants, including children, found in Chad desert; the migrants left a year and a half ago in a truck and are believed to have been lost in the desert and died of thirst