Brussels 08.01.2025  Today in the evening Chad’s government said security forces had foiled an attempt to destabilise the country, after bursts of gunfire rang out near the President’s office in the capital N’Djamena and the military blocked the surrounding areas.

In a video shot at the presidential headquarters, government spokesperson Abderaman Koulamallah ensured that the situation was completely under control, without further details.

“It was a little incident … everything is calm,” he said in the footage posted on Facebook. “This whole attempt at destabilisation has been thwarted.”

09.01.2025 #UPDATE Fighting between security forces and gunmen who launched an assault on Chad’s presidential palace on Wednesday left 19 people dead, including 18 of the attackers, the government said (AFP)

There were 18 dead and six injured” among the 24-strong commando unit that launched the assault, “and we suffered one death and three injured, one of them seriously,” government spokesman and Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah told (AFP).