Saudi Airlines Cargo Co. is increasing its freighter services to N'Djamena (Chad) to twice weekly via Jeddah, the company said in a statement Wednesday. The airline, which began operating to N'Djamena in June 2011, is now introducing a second flight (...)
Ghana's air freight industry has been given a boost with the addition of Saudi Airlines Cargo, a leading air cargo carrier and passenger airline in the Middle East.
This brings to nine, the number of freight forwarders operating in Ghana.
Saudi (...)
Saudi Airlines Cargo is to launch a weekly freighter flight to Accra, Ghana, starting March 25, 2012.The new service, which will operate once a week using the airline's B747 freighters, heralds the company's further expansion into Africa.
"Ghana is (...)
The Secretary General of Muslim World League (MWL) Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulmohsen Al-Turki received separately here today Chadian National Mediator Abdulrahman Mousa Hassan accompanied by President of King Faisal University in the Chadian capital of (...)
Awwal 27, 1432, March 02, 2011, SPA -- Five water-wells have been dug and declared open for consuming their drinking-water in Chad in Central West Africa, with the assistance of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), which are expected to (...)
JEDDAH: Saudi Airlines Cargo Company (Saudia Cargo) has signed an agreement with Fast Forward Cargo in the United Arab Emirates to operate 150 charter flights from Sharjah, UAE to West Africa in 2011. Under this agreement Saudia Cargo will operate (...)
JEDDAH: Saudi Airlines Cargo Company (Saudia Cargo) has signed an agreement with Fast Forward Cargo in the United Arab Emirates to operate 150 charter flights from Sharjah, UAE to West Africa in 2011. Under this agreement Saudia Cargo will operate (...)
The Government of Chad has told the United Nations that it wants peacekeepers leave the country in the next few months.
The U.N. says the mission is vital to protecting civilians and aid convoys that are assisting about a half million people who (...)
The Secretary General of Muslim World League (MWL), Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulmohsen Al-Turki received here today the Rector of King Faisal University in Chad Dr. Abdulrahman bin Omar Al-Mahi.
During the meeting, they discussed the situation at (...)
Chad says soldiers have stopped a
column of rebels advancing on the capital, killing 125 of
them and capturing 150, AP reported.
Rebels, who deny the claim, have been trying for more than
three years to overthrow the government.
Defense (...)
Chad's Prime Minister Yousef Saleh Abbas received at his office in N'djamena today the Secretary General of the Makkah-based Muslim World League Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulmohsen Al-Turki and the accompanying delegation.
During the meeting, Abbas lauded (...)
A Chad court Friday sentenced former
president Hissen Habre to death for planning a coup, according to dpa.
Habre was sentenced to death along with several other rebel
leaders, the BBC reported.
The former president has lived in Senegal since (...)
Dr Abdullah bin Abdul-Mohsin Al-Turki, The Secretary General of the Muslim World League (MWL), received here today President of King Faisal University in Chad Dr. Abdulrahman bin Omar Al-Mahi.
During the meeting, they discussed the situation of the (...)
Chad is negotiating "at this
moment" with rebels opposed to President Idriss Deby, Chad's
foreign minister Ahmat Allam-Mi told reporters in Brussels on
Thursday, according to Reuters.
"We are negotiating at this moment with the rebels, (...)
France's military said on Thursday
it had transported munitions to the Chadian government army,
which repelled a rebel attack on the capital N'Djamena this
month, Reuters reported.
French media had reported that French forces flew tank
shells (...)
The European Union's peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic resumed its deployment on
Tuesday after fighting in Chad died down, EU officials confirmed according to DPA.
"Today at 2 pm local time (1300 GMT), the force's (...)
Chadian President Idriss Deby issued a «solemn call» on Thursday for the planned European force
to quickly take up positions in Chad.
The force has delayed deployment because of a rebel attack
on the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, and ensuing (...)
The Plane carrying the employees of the Saudi embassy in Chad and their families in addition to the corpses of the deceased arrived here yesterday.
The employees were evacuated and the embassy was closed down following the recent events in the (...)
Chadian rebels renewed their assault on the capital of this oil-rich central African country Monday, and tens of thousands of people fled as gunfire crackled and artillery shells exploded across the city.
The third day of fighting in N'Djamena (...)
The Foreign Ministry announced the evacuation of all staff of Saudi Embassy and their families in Chad, and the closure of the embassy.
In a statement issued today, the ministry said that upon the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (...)
Following heavy fighting between Chadian
government forces and rebels in N'Djamena, more than 2,000 refugees -
over 80 per cent women and children - have fled to the Nigerian
border town, Gamboru-Ngala, officials said Tuesday according to (...)
Presided over by its Chairman Sheikh Dr. Salih bin Abdullah bin Homaid, the Shoura Council held its 69th session here today.
At the outset of the session, the Chairman expressed deep condolences and sympathy to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and (...)
Amid intense fighting in the Chadian
capital N'Djamena, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner offered
his country's help in helping embattled President Idriss Deby to
leave, but stressed there would be no French military involvement in
the (...)
An official source at the Foreign Ministry told Saudi Press Agency that during armed clashes in the Chadian capital, N'djamena, this afternoon, Saturday 24/1/1429 H. corresponding to 2/2/2008 A.D., a bomb hit the residence of the Saudi ambassador in (...)
France has sent about 150 supplementary troops to Chad as a «precautionary measure» in response to a rebel offensive in the central African nation, a
French Defense Ministry official said Friday.
The troops, stationed in Gabon, arrived in the (...)
