Wednesday, authorities said. President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno was inside the palace at the time of the attack.

Armed men tried to storm Chad's presidential palace when President Mahamat Idriss ... vigilance and courage of the Presidential Guard," he said in a message on Facebook. The group came from a poor neighbourhood in the south of the capital N'Djamena and ...

Chad's government said security forces had foiled an attempt to destabilise the country on Wednesday evening, after bursts of gunfire rang out near the president's office in the capital N'Djamena and the military blocked the surrounding streets.