AllAfrica.com provides a daily compilation of news sources on Chad, drawn from U.N. sites, human rights organisations and African newspapers.

Africatime lists national and international news sources in French.

Two Chadian newspapers available online in French are Al-wihda and Ialtchad Presse.

Blogs on Justice Africa's website by regional expert Alex De Waal and colleagues give helpful analysis and explain a lot of the international and ethnic ties.

Belgian think tank International Crisis Group produces analytical reports.

The U.N. refugee agency's Chad/Darfur emergency page is good for facts and figures about refugees in Chad.

For information about the country's internally displaced, go to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre's Chad page.

Parts of Chad are very short of food and the country is prone to drought, floods and locust invasions, which can all have a major impact on food supplies. Information from the Famine Early Warning System.

The World Bank has some useful information about health, education and the economy, including the country's fledgling oil industry.

Finally, the Eldis academic search engine has a list of academic papers on Chad, with in-depth information about health, education, poverty, economic development and human rights.