State media in Chad say an attack on the presidential palace left 18 assailants dead and six in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded.

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye poses for a portrait inside the Presidential Palace in Dakar on Nov ... foreign military presence in the West African country, in a speech on Tuesday ...

Heavy gunfire erupted near the presidential complex just before 8:00 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Wednesday in the centre of N'Djamena, the capital of the military-ruled, central African country.

President of the Republic of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, received President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, ...