The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday welcomed the successful handover of peacekeeping duties in Chad and the Central African Republic from the European Union to the United Nations and called for further improved relations with Sudan.

Belgium has taken Senegal to the International Court of Justice over the African nation’s failure to prosecute a former Chad president for crimes against humanity and torture.

Poland plans to end its military missions in Lebanon, the Golan Heights and Chad as it cuts spending due to the global economic crisis, the defense minister said Wednesday.

France plans to call home 15 percent of its 13,000 troops overseas, pulling forces out of Chad and Ivory Coast as part of a new doctrine of more selective foreign deployments, Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced Wednesday.

France plans to withdraw some 1,900 of its troops from the African nations of Chad and Ivory Coast.

The Security Council on Wednesday authorized 5,200 U.N. peacekeepers to replace a 3,300-strong European Union force in Chad and Central African Republic, which have been seriously affected by fighting in neighboring Sudan’s Darfur region.

French and Romanian police said Friday they have arrested five people in a probe into the killing of a son of Chad’s president.

Romanian police say they have arrested a suspect in the killing of the son of Chad’s president.

Chad Toy’s escape from jail wasn’t what shocked his jailers; it was his plea to be let back in. “When I rang the bell at the jail and told them who I was, they were surprised,” Toy told The Paducah (Ky.) Sun newspaper. “I guess they haven’t seen that befo

France on Friday rejected a demand by Chad that it pay more than euro6 million (US$8 million) in compensation to the families of 103 children kidnapped by French aid workers.