While the United Nations deliberates reinforcing its mission in Chad and the Central African Republic, the EU’s peacekeeping force in the region, Eufor, is stepping up preparations to hand over ...

France has announced its willingness to contribute an additional 500 troops and about ten helicopters to the EUFOR Chad/CAR mission. Regardless, logistical issues loom large on the horizon and will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People dig out a buried car after floods and landslides in Topcic Polje May 23, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - ...

Sarajevo _ Bosnia’s acting prime minister and the top international official in the country have asked the UN to extend the mandate of the EU-led peacekeeping force, EUFOR. Prime Minister Nikola ...

Mary Fitzgerald reports on her visit to Gassire which houses some of the 130,000 displaced Chadians who have fled inter-ethnic… Mary Fitzgeraldreports on her visit to Gassire which houses some of the ...

Farchana, Chad - While tensions remain high along Chad's eastern frontier with Sudan, European Union peacekeepers are finding their most serious enemy so far to be the heat and the dust. The EU force, ...

Eufor is in Chad to protect civilians. FRANCE 24 special correspondents Nicolas Germain and Virginie Herz gathered opinions on the efficiency of the force from ordinary Chadians in Abeche, where the ...

Valentin Inzko, the EU’s special representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, has warned member states against phasing out Eufor, the Union’s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, too early. The Peace ...

The European force (Eufor) is based in eastern Chad, with more than a third of its 3,200 troops stationed in the "Camp des Etoiles" outside the town of Abeche. FRANCE 24 special correspondents ...

IDRISS DÉBY, the president of Chad who has been propped up by France for nearly two decades, was weakened by the rebel offensive that delayed the deployment of European troops, Gen Patrick Nash, the ...

The most significant peacekeeping mission ever undertaken by the European Union began its life in a huge white tent which, under normal circumstances, is used by the US army as a gym. On the surface, ...