Ibrahim Abatcha
Ibrahim Abatcha (1938 – February 11, 1968) was a Muslim Chadian politician reputed of Marxist leanings and associations. His political activity started during the decolonization process of Chad from France, but after the country's independence ...
Ahmat Acyl
Ahmat Acyl (1944–1982) was a Chadian Arab militia leader during the Chadian Civil War. He was the head of the Democratic Revolutionary Council until his death in 1982, and served as the foreign minister in Goukouni Oueddei's government.
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Mahamat Ali Adoum
Mahamat Ali Adoum (born 14 November 1947 United Nations press release, BIO/3639, 15 February 2005.) is a Chadian ...
Ali II of Bornu Alhaji Ali (also Ali bin Umar) was Mai (ruler) of the Bornu Empire, in what is now the African states of Chad, Nigeria, and Niger, from 1639 to around 1680. Ali succeeded his father Umar in 1639 and had a relatively long reign. During the early yea ...
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Ahmad Allam-Mi
Ahmad Allam-Mi (born 1948 United Nations press release, BIO/4019, 8 September 2008.) is a Chadian diplomat who ...
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Michel Arnaud
Michel Arnaud (17 November 1915 – 1 August 1990) was a French Army general who distinguished himself in World War II, and for this was decorated with the Ordre de la Libération and made ''Grand Officier de la Légion d'honneur''.
Biography
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Mohamed Baghlani
Mohamed Baghlani (died 1977) was a Chadian insurgent leader during the First Chadian Civil War.
Formation of FROLINAT
Baghlani was the most prominent Arab member of the Chadian National Union (UNT), an Islamic political party founded in 1958 ...
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Antoine Bangui Antoine Bangui-Rombaye (born 1933) is a Chadian political figure and author. Between 1962 and 1972, Bangui was a member of the cabinet, including as foreign minister. However, he fell out of favor with President François Tombalbaye and was impris ...
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Jean Alingué Bawoyeu
Jean Alingué Bawoyeu (born August 18, 1937), known in French as the ''vieux sage'', which translates as "wise elder", is a Chadian politician who was Prime Minister of Chad from 1991 to 1992. During the 1970s, he served successively as Ambassa ...
Outel Bono
Outel Bono (1934 – 26 August 1973) was a Chadian medical doctor and politician.
He was medical director of the hospital in Chad's capital, Fort-Lamy (now N'Djamena), in 1963 when he was arrested for plotting against the government of President ...
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Solomon Braun Solomon Braun (1868–1899) was a French lieutenant of artillery, born at Paris in 1868 and died in Togbao, Chad, in 1899. His father, a poor peddler, observing Solomon's capacity for learning, made the greatest sacrifices to give him a good e ...
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Henri Bretonnet
Henri-Etienne Bretonnet (1864–1899) was a French naval officer, killed with most of his men in the battle of Togbao.
Second Mizon mission
Bretonnet entered in the navy by attending the École Navale, the Navy Academy in charge of the education o ...
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Michel Brunet (paleontologist)
Michel Brunet (born April 6, 1940) is a French paleontologist and a professor at the Collège de France. In 2001 Brunet announced the discovery in Central Africa of the skull and jaw remains of a late Miocene hominid nicknamed Toumaï. These remai ...
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Françoise Claustre
Françoise Claustre (8 February 1937 – 3 September 2006), was a French archaeologist.
Life and career
Claustre was taken hostage by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardaï, in the Tibesti Mountain ...
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Issa Serge Coelo
Issa Serge Coelo (born 1967) is a Chadian film director. Born in Biltine, Chad, Biltine, Chad, he studied history in Paris and film at the École supérieure de réalisation audiovisuelle (ÉSRA). He then worked as a cameraman at Métropole Tél ...
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Yves Coppens
Yves Coppens (9 August 1934 – 22 June 2022) was a French anthropologist. A graduate from the University of Rennes and Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and also produced a film. In October 2 ...
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Dunama Dabbalemi Dunama Dabbalemi, or Dounama Dibbalém, of the Sayfawa dynasty, was the ''mai'' (king) of the Kanem Empire, in present-day Chad, from 1210 to 1224.
A fervent Muslim, Dabbalemi initiated diplomatic exchanges with sultans in North Africa and appar ...
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Dawud of Kanem
Daoud was the half-brother of the 14th-century Kanem emperor Idris I of Kanem. After the death of Idris, a struggle for the throne began. Daoud was chosen as Mai against his competitors, the sons of Idris. This left the sons dejected and bitt ...
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Brahim Déby
Brahim Déby Itno ( ar, إبراهيم ديبي إتنو ', 6 June 1980 – 2 July 2007
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Idriss Déby
Idriss Déby Itno ' (18 June 1952 – 20 April 2021) was a Chadian politician and military officer who was the president of Chad from 1990 until his death in 2021.
Déby was a member of the Bidayat clan of the Zaghawa ethnic group. A high-ranki ...
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Hassan Djamous
Hassan Djamous ( ar, حسن جاموس, died April 1989) was a Commander-in-Chief of the military of Chad and a cousin of Chadian President Idriss Déby.
He led Chadian forces during the Chadian–Libyan conflict, such as the victory in the Ba ...
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Youssouf Djaoro
Youssouf Djaoro (born 28 March 1963) is a Chadian film actor.
He made his debut by appearing in the film ''Daresalam'' in 2000 in which he played the character of Tom. It was directed by the critically acclaimed Issa Serge Coelo and was the firs ...
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Yaya Dillo Djérou Yaya Dillo Djérou is a Chadian politician, leader of the opposition.
Life
On October 14, 2005, when the government of Idriss Déby had to admit desertions in the army, especially from the Zaghawa, the President's ethnic group. These deserters we ...
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Koibla Djimasta
Koibla Djimasta (1950 – January 30, 2007) was a Chadian politician of Sara ethnicity from the southern Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture.
An administrator, Djimasta held various cabinet positions under Presidents Hissène Habré and Idriss Déby, ...
Dunama I Mai Dunama was the head of the Sayfawa confederacy during the early part of the twelfth century. He was supposedly the first Mai to take a pilgrimage to Mecca
Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a c ...
Timane Erdimi
Timane Erdimi is the leader of the Chadian rebel group Rally of Democratic Forces (''Rassemblement des Forces pour le Changement'', RFC) which had 800 soldiers in early 2008. He is a member of the ethnic group Zaghawa and nephew of the Chadian Pre ...
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Moussa Faki
Moussa Faki Mahamat ( ar, موسى فكي محمد ', born 21 June 1960) is a Chadian politician and diplomat who has been the elected Chairperson of the African Union Commission since 14 March 2017. Previously he was Prime Minister of Chad from 2 ...
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Jacques Foccart
Jacques Foccart (31 August 1913 – 19 March 1997) was a French businessman and politician, best known as a chief adviser to President of France, French presidents on African affairs. He was also a co-founder of the Gaullist Party, Gaullist Servi ...
Pierre Galopin Pierre Galopin was a French military officer who came to international attention when he was captured by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 4 August 1974 in the Tibesti mountains, in the middle of the Sahara desert. He was tried ...
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Émile Gentil
Émile Gentil (; 4 April 1866 – 30 March 1914) was a French colonial administrator, naval officer, and military leader.
Born at Volmunster in the department of Moselle, he later attended the École Navale, the school that formed French na ...
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Camille Gourvenec
Camille Gourvenec (died 1978) was an officer of the French external intelligence service SDECE, possibly with the rank of colonel, who, from 1966, was seconded as security adviser to President François Tombalbaye of Chad, and was therefore eff ...
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Hissène Habré
Hissène Habré (Arabic: ''Ḥusaīn Ḥabrī'', Chadian Arabic: ; ; 13 August 1942 – 24 August 2021), also spelled Hissen Habré, was a Chadian politician and convicted war criminal who served as the 5th president of Chad from 1982 u ...
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Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (; ar, محمد الصالح هارون) was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. He is a film director from Chad. He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both wri ...
Hummay Hummay (Umme, Houmé or Hume) was the first Muslim king, ''mai'', of the Sefuwa dynasty within Kanem-Bornu Empire from 1085 to 1097, replacing the Sefuwa-Duguwa dynasty.
The dynasty founded by him was to survive until 1846. His rule had important ...
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Mahamat Idriss
Mahamat Idriss (ne ''Koundja Ouya'', 17 July 1942 – 3 October 1987) was a Chadian high jumper.
He was born in Fort-Lamy, Chad, French Equatorial Africa.
Career
Before the Chadian independency on 11 August 1960 he competed for France, winning th ...
Robert Jaulin
Robert Jaulin (7 March 1928, Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes – 22 November 1996, Grosrouvre) was a French ethnologist. After several journeys to Chad, between 1954 and 1959, among the Sara people, he published in 1967 ''La Mort Sara'' (The Sara De ...
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Paul Joalland
Paul-Jules Joalland (8 November 1870 – 27 September 1940) was a French officer, known mainly for completing the Voulet-Chanoine Mission.
He was one of the six officers of the latter expedition, and was an artillery expert with the rank of l ...
Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh (December 31, 1949 – disappeared February 2008) is a Chadian politician and opposition leader who headed the Party for Liberties and Development (PLD).
Early life and education
Saleh was born in Biltine, Chad. He is from ...
Haroun Kabadi
Haroun Kabadi ( ar, هارون كبادي '; born 29 April 1949) is a Chadian politician. He was Prime Minister of Chad from June 2002 to June 2003 and was the President of the National Assembly of Chad from June 2011 to April 2021.
Politics
K ...
Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué
Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué (May 20, 1939 – May 9, 2011) was a Chadian politician and army officer. Kamougué was a leading figure in the 1975 coup d'état and subsequently held several positions in the Chadian government and legislature. He was ...
Oueddei Kichidemi Oueddei Kichidemi was the father of the former Chadian President Goukouni Oueddei and was the tribal leader, or ''derde'', of the Toubou Teda of the Tibesti during the First Chadian Civil War. Derde
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Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye
Nouradine Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye ( ar, نور الدين دلوا كوماكوي; born December 31, 1949Alphonse Kotiga
Colonel Alphonse Kotiga, also known as Kotiga Guérina, was a Chadian military officer and politician. He was one of the leaders of the coup d'etat which overthrew and killed Chadian President François Tombalbaye on 15 April 1975, and then became ...
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Abbas Koty Abbas Koty Yacoub (1952 , cnrdutchad.com .–October 22, 1993Ahmed Koulamallah Ahmed Koulamallah (11 February 1912 – 5 September 1995) was a prominent politician in Colonial Chad. He was the estranged son of the sultan of Baguirmi and the charismatic leader of the Tijaniyyah
The Tijāniyyah ( ar, الطريقة ا ...
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Brahim Koulamallah Brahim Ahmed Koulamallah is a Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the ...
Koulsy Lamko
Koulsy Lamko (born 1959) is a Chadian-born playwright, poet, novelist and university lecturer. Born in Dadouar, Lamko left his country for Burkina Faso in 1979 due to the beginning of the civil war. There, he became acquainted with Thomas Sank ...
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Amédée-François Lamy
Amédée-François Lamy was a French military officer. He was born at Mougins, in the French ''département'' of Alpes-Maritimes on 7 February 1858 and died in the battle of Kousséri on 22 April 1900.
Early years
Lamy's ambition to become an ...
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Gabriel Lisette
Gabriel Francisco Lisette (2 April 1919 – 3 March 2001) was a Chadian politician who played a key role in the decolonization of Chad.
Biography
Of African descent, he was born at Portobelo in Panama on 2 April 1919. He became a French colon ...
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Elise Loum Elise Ndoadoumngue Ne'loumsei Loum (born 1956, Chad) was a vice-president of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament from 2004 to 2009.
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Serge Malé Serge Malé, a national of France, is a senior UN official working for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Since 2006, he is head of the UNHCR office in Chad.
In 2008, in the aftermath of February's Battle of N'Djam ...
Félix Malloum
Félix Malloum or Félix Malloum Ngakoutou Bey-Ndi ( ar, فليكس معلوم '; 10 September 1932 – 12 June 2009) was a Chadian military officer and politician who served as the second President of Chad from 1975 to 1978.
A native of s ...
Idriss Miskine
Idriss Miskine (15 March 1948 – 7 January 1984) was a Chadian politician and diplomat under Presidents Félix Malloum and Hissène Habré.
Career
Miskine, an ethnic Hadjarai, was the Minister of Transport, Posts, and Telecommunications under P ...
Fidèle Moungar Fidèle Abdelkérim Moungar (born 1948) is a Chadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Chad in 1993. He is currently Secretary-General of Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism (ACTUS), a left-wing opposition party.
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Moungar is an eth ...
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Idriss Ndele Moussa
Idriss may refer to:
* Idriss Arnaoud Ali (born 1945), President of the National Assembly of Djibouti
* Idriss Carlos Kameni (born 1984), Cameroonian football player
* Idriss Déby (1952–2021), President of Chad
* Idriss Ndele Moussa, Chadian p ...
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Baba Moustapha Mahamat "Baba" Moustapha (1952-1982) was a Chadian playwright writing in French language, French. His plays include ''Le Maitre des Djinns'' ("La Mastro de la Ĝinoj"), ''Le Souffle de l'Harmattan'' ("La Spiro de Harmattano")and ''Makarie aux Épin ...
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Ahmed Hassan Musa
Ahmed Hassan Musa (died 1979) was a Chadian insurgent who participated to the first phase of the Chadian Civil War. An Islamic fundamentalist close to the Muslim Brotherhood, he was head of the General Union of the Children of Chad (''Union ...
Japhet N'Doram
Japhet N'Doram (born 27 February 1966) is a Chadian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker.
His 14-year senior career was mainly spent with FC Nantes, Nantes, which h ...
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum (1928 – February 19, 2000) was Prime Minister of Chad from May 19, 1982 to June 19, 1982. He was minister of finance
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government f ...
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Sam Nolutshungu
Samuel Clement Nolutshungu (15 April 1945 – 12 August 1997) was one of the foremost South African scholars, and an internationally acclaimed expert on South African politics.
Born in King William's Town in 1945, he studied first in the Lo ...
Mahamat Nouri
General Mahamat Nouri (born 1947) is a Chadian insurgent leader who currently commands the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD). A Muslim from northern Chad, he began his career as a FROLINAT rebel, and when the group's Second Army ...
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido (born 1947) is a Chadian politician who was Prime Minister of Chad from 1997 to 1999 and was President of the National Assembly of Chad from 2002 to 2011. He was Secretary-General of the Economic Community of Central ...
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Goukouni Oueddei
Goukouni Oueddei ( ar, كوكوني عويدي '; born 1944 in Zouar) is a Chadian politician who served as President of Chad from 1979 to 1982.
A northerner, Goukouni commanded FROLINAT rebels with Libyan support during the first Chadian Civ ...
Rabih az-Zubayr
Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah or Rabih Fadlallah ( ar, رابح فضل الله ,رابح الزبير ابن فضل الله), usually known as Rabah in French (c. 1842 – April 22, 1900), was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who establish ...
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Aboubakar Abdel Rahmane
Aboubakar Abdel Rahmane (died 1979) was a Chadian warlord active during the civil war. His early life is very undocumented, and his date of birth is unknown. A semi-literate Muslim Kanembu, he originally belonged to Goukouni Oueddei's People's A ...
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Gontchomé Sahoulba
Gontchomé Sahoulba (16 October 1909 – 1963) was a Chadian politician who played a prominent role during the decolonization in Chad. Born in 1909, he was a Moundang chief of Mayo-Kébbi Prefecture, Mayo-Kebbi, in what was then the French colonia ...
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Youssouf Saleh Abbas
Youssouf Saleh Abbas ( ar, يوسف صالح عباس '; born ''c''. 1953
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Mahamat Saleh Annadif
Mahamat Saleh Annadif (born December 25, 1956)''The International Who's Who 2004'', Routledge, page 53. is a Chadian diplomat who has been serving as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Af ...
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Fatma Samoura
Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura (born 9 September 1962) is a Senegalese former diplomat and senior executive. She was appointed as the first female Secretary General of FIFA by President Gianni Infantino on 13 May 2016 and assumed her post on 20 June ...
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Joseph Brahim Seid
Joseph Brahim Seid (1927 in N'Djamena – 1980) was a Chadian writer and politician. He served as Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1975. As a writer he is known for the works ''Au Tchad sous les étoiles'' ("In Chad under the stars", 1962) and ...
MC Solaar
Claude M'Barali, professionally known as MC Solaar (; born 5 March 1969), is a French rapper of Senegalese and Chadian origin. He is one of France's most famous and influential hip hop artists. Some consider him the best French rapper of all ...
Christophe Staewen
Dr. Christoph Staewen (14 July 1926 – 24 April 2002) was a German medical doctor, specialist of psychiatry, neurology and psychotherapy. In 1963 and early 1964 he visited parts of west and central Africa, amongst others the Tibesti region. In 1 ...
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Ahmat Taboye Ahmat Taboye is a literary critic from Chad. As head of the Department of Letters at the University of N'Djamena, he published ''Anthologie de la littérature tchadienne'' in 2003, which covers 40 years of Chadian literature. In May 2007, the Minist ...
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Youssouf Togoïmi
Youssouf Togoïmi (26 March 1953, ''Afrique Express'', number 256, 2 October 2002 . – 24 September 2002, ''Afrique Express'', number 256, 2 October 2002 .) was a Chadian politician who served in the government under President Idriss Déby but su ...
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Nabatingue Toko
Nambatingue Tokomon Dieudonné, often shortened to Nambatingue Toko (born 21 August 1952) is a Chadian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent all of his career in France.
Playing career
Toko was born in N'Djamena, Cha ...
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François Tombalbaye
François Tombalbaye ( ar, فرنسوا تومبالباي '; 15 June 1918 – 13 April 1975), also known as N'Garta Tombalbaye, was a Chadian politician who served as the first President of Chad from the country's independence in 1960 until ...
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Umar of Borno
Umar I ibn Muhammad al-Amin ( ar, اولعمر ابن محمد لرشيد) or Umar of Borno (died 1881) was ''Shehu'' (Sheik) of the Kanem-Bornu Empire and son of Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi.
Reign of Umar
Umar came to power at the death of his f ...
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Donald Yamamoto
Donald Yukio Yamamoto (born 1953) is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Somalia from 2018 to 2021. Before that he was the acting assistant secretary of state for african affairs with a term of appointment startin ...
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Nagoum Yamassoum
Nagoum Yamassoum (born 1954) is a Chadian politician who was Prime Minister of Chad from 1999 to 2002 and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2005. He is from the district of Grande Sido in the region of Moyen Chari.
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Pascal Yoadimnadji Pascal Yoadimnadji (January 11, 1950 – February 23, 2007) was a Chadian politician. He was Prime Minister of Chad from February 2005 to his death in February 2007.Valery Gottingar, , Chadian government web site, February 23, 2007 .
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Joseph Yodoyman
Joseph Yodoyman (1950 – November 22, 1993) was a Chadian politician and civil servant, who held the post of Prime Minister under President Idriss Déby from 1992 to 1993.
Originally from southern Chad, he graduated at the Institut international ...
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Ngarlejy Yorongar
Ngarlejy Koji Yorongar le Moinban is a Chadian politician. He is the Executive Federal Coordinator of the Federation, Action for the Republic (in French: ''Fédération, action pour la république'' or FAR), a radical opposition party, as well as ...
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Adoum Younousmi Adoum Younousmi (born 1962) is a Chadian politician who served in the government of Chad as Minister of Public Works and Transport from 2003 to 2005 and as Minister of State for Infrastructure from 2005 to 2011. He was briefly Prime Minister in an a ...
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Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
Abéché
Abéché ( ar, أبشه, ''Absha'') is the fourth largest city in Chad and is the capital of Ouaddaï Region. It has within it the remnants of the ancient capital, including palaces, mosques, and the tombs of former sultans.
History
The city o ...
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Ade
Ade, Adé, or ADE may refer to:
Aeronautics
*Ada Air's ICAO code
* Aden International Airport's IATA code
*Aeronautical Development Establishment, a laboratory of the DRDO in India
Medical
* Adverse Drug Event
*Antibody-dependent enhancement
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Adré
Adré (Arabic: أدري) is the main town of the Assoungha department in the Ouaddaï Region of Chad. It is located very close to Chad's eastern border with Sudan, 400m away. The town is served by Adré Airport.
History
The Chadian-Sudanese c ...
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Am Dam
Am Dam ( ar, أم دام) is the capital of Djourf Al Ahmar Department in Sila Region, Chad, located at an important crossroads in the Batha River valley. It is a small town about northwest of Goz-Beida and by road from the capital N'Djamena. ...
Am Timan
Am Timan (Arabic: أم تيمان, ''ʾUmm Tīmān'') is a city in Chad and is the capital of the region of Salamat. Am Timan is also known as Dabengat in Chad, which mean the resources of the products. Most of economy comes from Salamat region s ...
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Arada
Arada may refer to:
Geography
* Arada, Chad, a town and subprefecture in the department of Biltine in eastern Chad
* Arada (Addis Ababa), one of the 10 subcities of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia
* Arada, Honduras, a municipality in the Ho ...
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Ati
Ati or ATI may refer to:
* Ati people, a Negrito ethnic group in the Philippines
**Ati language (Philippines), the language spoken by this people group
** Ati-Atihan festival, an annual celebration held in the Philippines
*Ati language (China), a ...
Bokoro
Bokoro ( ar, بوكورو) is a town in Chad. The town is served by Bokoro Airport
Bokoro Airport is a public use airport located near Bokoro, Hadjer-Lamis, Chad.
See also
*List of airports in Chad
This is a list of airports in Chad, grou ...
Bongor
Bongor ( ar, بونقور) is a city in Chad, the capital of the region of Mayo-Kebbi Est. It is located on the eastern bank of the Logone River. During the rainy season (May–September), the Logone is navigable between Bongor and N'Djamena, Cha ...
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Borota
Borota is a village and municipality ('' Hungarian: község'') in Bács-Kiskun county, located in the Southern Great Plain region of Hungary.
Geography
It covers an area of and had a population of 1,309 people as of 2018.
History
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Bousso
Bousso ( ar, بوسو) is a city in Chari-Baguirmi Region
Chari-Baguirmi ( ar, شاري باقرمي) is one of the 23 regions of Chad. Its capital is Massenya. It is composed of part of the former Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture ( sub-prefectures ...
Faya-Largeau
Faya-Largeau (also known as Faya, ar, فايا لارجو or ) is the largest city in northern Chad and was the capital of the region of Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti. It is now in the Borkou Region, which was formed in 2008 from the Borkou Department ...
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Fianga
Fianga ( ar, فيانكا) is a town in Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Su ...
Goz Beïda
Goz Beïda ( ar, قوز بيدا) is the capital of the Sila (or Dar Sila) region of Chad, as well as the main town (chef-lieu) of the Kimiti department. Prior to 2008, Goz Beïda was part of the Ouaddaï Region's former Sila Department.
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Guéréda
Guéréda ( ar, غيريدا) is a town in the Wadi Fira Region, Chad. It is located at around .
Guéréda was the site of fighting between the Chadian army and the Rally of Democratic Forces (RAFD) in early December 2006. On December 1, el ...
Koro Toro Koro Toro is a settlement in southern Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region in Chad. It hosts the Koro Toro Airport and a "notorious" maximum security desert prison used by the Chadian government to detain captured fighters of Boko Haram and Chadian rebel ...
Koumra
Koumra (Arabic: قمرة, ''Qumra'') is a town in southern Chad. It is the capital of the region
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physica ...
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Laï
Laï ( ar, لادي) is a city in Chad. It lies on the Logone River and is the capital of the region of Tandjilé. The town is served by Laï Airport. History
This city is notable for the Battle of Lai during World War I
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Mani
Mani may refer to:
Geography
* Maní, Casanare, a town and municipality in Casanare Department, Colombia
* Mani, Chad, a town and sub-prefecture in Chad
* Mani, Evros, a village in northeastern Greece
* Mani, Karnataka, a village in Dakshi ...
Massaguet
Massaguet (Arabic: مساقط, Masāqiṭ) is a city in Hadjer-Lamis region, western Chad. It is located at around .
An 86.6 km (87 km) highway completed in 1969 connects Massaguet with N'Djamena
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Massakory
Massakory ( ar, ماساكوري) is the capital of the Chadian region of Hadjer-Lamis and of the department of Dagana. The town was formerly in the prefecture of Fort-Lamy in the department of Bas-Chari.
People
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Massenya
Massenya ( ar, ماسينيا) is a small town in Chad. It is the capital of the region of Chari-Baguirmi and of the department of Baguirmi.
Massenya was also the historical capital of the Kingdom of Baguirmi
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Moundou
Moundou () is the second largest city in Chad and is the capital of the region of Logone Occidental.
The city lies on the Mbéré River (a tributary of the Western Logone) some 475 kilometres south of the capital N'Djamena. It is the main cit ...
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Mongo
Mongo may refer to:
Geography Africa
* Mongo, Chad, a Sahel city
* Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo (Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction)
* Mongo, Sierra Leone, a chiefdom
* Mongo River (Little Scarces River), Guinea and Sierra Leone, a tributar ...
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Moussoro
Moussoro ( ar, موسورو) is a town in Chad, lying northeast of N'Djamena on the road to Faya-Largeau. An important transportation centre, it lies in a dry river bed and as a result has more vegetation than is typical in the area.
Moussoro is ...
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N'Djamena
N'Djamena ( ) is the capital and largest city of Chad. It is also a special statute region, divided into 10 districts or ''arrondissements''.
The city serves as the centre of economic activity in Chad. Meat, fish and cotton processing are the ...
Oum Hadjer
Oum Hadjer ( ar, أم هاجر) is a small city in Chad, and the capital of Batha Est Department. It straddles the ephemeral Batha River, lies on the main road between Khartoum and N'Djamena, and has a small airport.
Strategically located, it ha ...
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Pala Pala may refer to:
Places
Chad
*Pala, Chad, the capital of the region of Mayo-Kebbi Ouest
Estonia
* Pala, Kose Parish, village in Kose Parish, Harju County
* Pala, Kuusalu Parish, village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County
*Pala, Järva County, vi ...
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Sarh
Semi-active radar homing (SARH) is a common type of missile guidance system, perhaps the most common type for longer-range air-to-air and surface-to-air missile systems. The name refers to the fact that the missile itself is only a passive det ...
Prefectures of Chad
A prefecture (from the Latin ''Praefectura'') is an administrative jurisdiction traditionally governed by an appointed prefect. This can be a regional or local government subdivision in various countries, or a subdivision in certain international ...
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Batha Prefecture
Batha Prefecture ( ar, ﺇﻗﻠﻴﻢ البطحاء) was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. Located in the center of the country, Batha covered an area of 88,800 square kilometers and had a population of 288,458 in 1993. Its capital was Ati, Chad ...
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Biltine Prefecture
Biltine Prefecture ( ar, ﺇﻗﻠﻴﻢ بلتن) was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. Located in the east of the country, Biltine covered an area of 46,850 square kilometers and had a population of 184,807 in 1993. Its capital was Biltine. ...
Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture
''This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad. From 2002 the country was divided into 18 regions.''
Chari-Baguirmi was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. Located in the west of the country, Chari-Baguirmi covered an area of 82,91 ...
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Guéra Prefecture Guéra or Guera may refer to:
* Guéra Prefecture, a former first-level administrative division of Chad until 1999
* Guéra Region Guéra or Guera may refer to:
* Guéra Prefecture, a former first-level administrative division of Chad until 1999 ...
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Kanem Prefecture
''This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad. From 2002 the country was divided into 18 regions.''
Kanem was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad
A prefecture (from the Latin ''Praefectura'') is an administrative jurisdiction t ...
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Lac Prefecture
:''This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad. From 2002 the country was divided into 18 regions.''
Lac ( ar, ﺇﻗﻠﻴﻢ ﻻﻙ) was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad
A prefecture (from the Latin ''Praefectura'') is an a ...
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Logone Occidental Prefecture
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Logone Occidental was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. Located in the southwest of the country, Logone Occidental covered an a ...
Moyen-Chari Prefecture
*''This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad. From 2002 the country was divided into 18 regions.''
Moyen-Chari was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. Located in the south of the country, Moyen-Chari covered an area of 45,180 sq ...
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Ouaddaï Prefecture Ouaddaï may refer to:
* Ouaddaï highlands, an area in eastern Chad along the border with Sudan
* Ouaddaï Prefecture, a former political prefecture of Chad
* Ouaddaï Region, a political region of Chad created in 2002
* Wadai Empire (1635–1912) ...
Tandjilé Prefecture Tandjilé may refer to:
* Tandjilé Prefecture, one of the 14 Prefectures of Chad, which existed from 1960, the year of independence, to 1999
* Tandjilé Region Tandjilé may refer to:
* Tandjilé Prefecture, one of the 14 Prefectures of Chad, whi ...
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Regions of Chad
The Republic of Chad is made up of twenty-three regions.
Chad was divided into regions in 2002. It was previously divided into prefectures, and then departments.
Current regions
This is a list of the regions of Chad since 2012, with population ...
Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region The Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (BET) was until 2008 one of the then 18 regions of Chad, its capital being Faya-Largeau. It comprised the former Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Prefecture. Most of the region was part of the Sahara desert.
In 2008, this region wa ...
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Chari-Baguirmi Region
Chari-Baguirmi ( ar, شاري باقرمي) is one of the 23 regions of Chad. Its capital is Massenya. It is composed of part of the former Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture ( sub-prefectures of Massenya and Bousso) and parts of the sub-prefecture of N' ...
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Guéra Region Guéra or Guera may refer to:
* Guéra Prefecture, a former first-level administrative division of Chad until 1999
* Guéra Region, a first-level administrative division of Chad since 2002
* Guéra Department, a second level administrative divis ...
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Hadjer-Lamis
Hadjer-Lamis ( ar, حجر لميس) is one of the 23 regions of Chad, located in the southwest of the country. Its capital is Massakory. It corresponds to part of the former prefecture of Chari-Baguirmi (sub-prefectures of Bokoro and of Massako ...
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Kanem Region
Kanem ( ar, كانم) is one of the 23 regions of Chad. It is named after the famous Kanem Empire, which was centred in this vicinity. The region's capital is Mao. It was created in 2002 from the former Prefecture of Kanem. In 2008, a portio ...
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Lac Region
Lac ( ar, البحيرة) is one of the 23 regions of Chad. Its capital is Bol. It is chiefly composed of the former Lac Prefecture. The region includes Chad's portion of the shore of Lake Chad.
Geography
The region borders Kanem Region to th ...
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Logone Occidental Region
Logone Occidental is one of the 23 regions of Chad, located in the south-west of the country. Its capital is Moundou. It is coterminous with the former Logone Occidental Prefecture.
Geography
The region borders Tandjilé Region to the north, ...
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Logone Oriental Region
Logone Oriental is one of the 23 regions of Chad, located in the south-west of the country. Its capital is Doba. It is coterminous with the former Logone Oriental Prefecture.
Geography
The region borders Logone Occidental Region and Tandjil ...
Mayo-Kebbi Est
Mayo-Kebbi Est ( ar, مايو كيبي الشرقية) is one of the 23 regions of Chad. Its capital is Bongor. It is composed of the northern areas of the former prefecture of Mayo-Kebbi (sub-prefectures of Bongor, Fianga and Gounou Gaya).
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Mayo-Kebbi Ouest
Mayo-Kebbi Ouest ( ar, مايو كيبي الغربية) is one of the 23 regions of Chad. Its capital is Pala. It is composed of the southern areas of the former prefecture of Mayo-Kebbi (sub-prefectures of Pala and Léré).
Geography
The re ...
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Moyen-Chari Region
Moyen-Chari ( ar, شاري الأوسط) is one of the 23 regions of Chad, located in the south of the country. Its capital is Sarh. The former prefecture of the same name was larger and included modern Mandoul Region.
Geography
The region bor ...
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Ouaddaï Region
Ouaddaï ( ar, وداي) is a region of Chad, located in the south-east of the country, with its capital at Abéché. Prior to 2002 it was known as Ouaddaï Prefecture; in 2008 the southern portions of Ouaddaï (the Sila Department and Djour ...
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Salamat Region
Salamat is one of the 23 regions of Chad, located in the south-east of the country. The region's capital is Am Timan. It corresponds to the former prefecture of the same name.
Geography
Salamat borders Sila Region to the north, the Central ...
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Tandjilé Region Tandjilé may refer to:
* Tandjilé Prefecture, one of the 14 Prefectures of Chad, which existed from 1960, the year of independence, to 1999
* Tandjilé Region, one of the regions of Chad, established in 2002
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Wadi Fira
Wadi Fira ( ar, وادي فيرا) is one of the 23 regions of Chad. Its capital is the town of Biltine. The region corresponds with the former prefecture of Biltine.
Geography
The region borders Borkou Region, Ennedi-Ouest Region and ...
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Departments of Chad
The regions of Chad are divided into 61 Department (country subdivision), departments. The departments are listed below, by name and by region.
Departments sorted by name
Departments grouped by region
The following is a list of departments ...
Barh Azoum
Barh Azoum is one of three departments in Salamat, a region of Chad. Its capital is Am Timan
Am Timan (Arabic: أم تيمان, ''ʾUmm Tīmān'') is a city in Chad and is the capital of the region of Salamat. Am Timan is also known as Dabeng ...
Barh Köh Barh Kôh is one of three departments in Moyen-Chari, a region of Chad. Its capital is Sarh.
See also
* Departments of Chad
The regions of Chad are divided into 61 departments. The departments are listed below, by name and by region.
De ...
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Barh Sara
Barh Sara is one of 3 departments which make up the region of Mandoul in southern Chad. Its capital is Moïssala.
It is divided into three sub-prefectures:
* Moïssala
Moïssala ( ar, مويسالا) is the capital of Barh Sara, one of the d ...
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Barh Signaka Barh Signaka ( ar, بحر سينياكا) is one of four departments in Guéra, a region of Chad. Its capital is Mongo.
Barh Signaka Department has a population of 118,620 (2016 survey) and 495 villages. Oxfam and Office National de Développeme ...
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Batha Est Batha Est (or Batha East, ar, البطحة الشرقية) is one of the three departments which make up the Batha Region in Chad. The capital is Oum Hadjer.
Sub-prefectures
Batha Est is divided into four sub-prefectures:
* Oum Hadjer
* Ass ...
Borkou
Borku (french: Borkou) or Borgu (') is a region of Central Africa, mostly in Northern Chad, forming part of the transitional zone between the arid wastes of the Sahara and the fertile lands of the central Sudan. It is bounded N. by the Tibesti ...
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Chari
Chari may refer to:
Places
* Chari River, in Central Africa
* Chari-Baguirmi (disambiguation), in Chad
* Chari Department, in Chad, one of three departments making up the region of Chari-Baguirmi
* Moyen-Chari (disambiguation), in Chad
* Chari, ...
Dar Tama Dar Tama ( ar, دار تاما) is one of three departments in Wadi Fira, a region of Chad. Its capital is Gueréda, northeast of Abéché. The population consists primarily of non-Arab tribes. Dar Tama is the historical home of the Tama, who ...
Dodjé Dodjé is one of four departments in Logone Occidental, a region of Chad. Its capital is Beinamar.Its located south west of Chad near the border with Cameroon.
See also
* Departments of Chad
The regions of Chad are divided into 61 departm ...
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Ennedi Est
Ennedi Est ( ar, إنيدي الشرقية) was a department of the former Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region in Chad. Its capital was Bahaï.
In 2008, the former Ennedi Est and Ennedi Ouest departments of Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti became the new Ennedi ...
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Ennedi Ouest
Ennedi Ouest ( ar, إنيدي الغربية) was a department of the former Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region in Chad. Its capital was Fada.
In 2008, the former Ennedi Ouest and Ennedi Est departments of Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti became the new Enned ...
Kobé
Kobé ( ar, كوبي) is one of three departments in Wadi Fira, a region
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics ( physical geography), human ...
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La Nya Pendé
La Nya Pendé or Nya Pendé is one of six departments of Chad, departments in Logone Oriental Region, Logone Oriental, a Regions of Chad, region of Chad. Its capital is Goré, Chad, Goré.
See also
* Departments of Chad
References
Loug Chari
Loug Chari ( ar, لوق شاري) is one of three departments in Chari-Baguirmi, a region of Chad. Its capital is Bousso
Bousso ( ar, بوسو) is a city in Chari-Baguirmi Region
Chari-Baguirmi ( ar, شاري باقرمي) is one of the 23 ...
Mayo-Boneye
Mayo-Boneye is one of four departments in Mayo-Kebbi Est, a region of Chad. Its capital is Bongor
Bongor ( ar, بونقور) is a city in Chad, the capital of the region of Mayo-Kebbi Est. It is located on the eastern bank of the Logone River ...
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Mayo-Dallah
Mayo-Dallah is one of two departments in Mayo-Kebbi Ouest, a region of Chad. Its capital is Pala Pala may refer to:
Places
Chad
*Pala, Chad, the capital of the region of Mayo-Kebbi Ouest
Estonia
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Mayo Lemie
Mayo Lemie or Mayo-Lémié is one of four departments in Mayo-Kebbi Est, a region of Chad. Its capital is Guélengdeng.
See also
* Departments of Chad
The regions of Chad are divided into 61 departments. The departments are listed below, by ...
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Mont Illi
Mont Illi or Mont d'Illi is one of four departments in Mayo-Kebbi Est, a region of Chad. Its capital is Fianga
Fianga ( ar, فيانكا) is a town in Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) ...
Ngourkosso
Ngourkosso is one of four departments in Logone Occidental, a region of Chad. Its capital is Bénoye.
See also
* Departments of Chad
The regions of Chad are divided into 61 departments. The departments are listed below, by name and by re ...
Tibesti
The Tibesti Mountains are a mountain range in the central Sahara, primarily located in the extreme north of Chad, with a small portion located in southern Libya. The highest peak in the range, Emi Koussi, lies to the south at a height of and is ...
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Wayi
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Sub-prefectures of Chad
The departments of Chad are divided into 348 sub-prefectures (''sous-préfectures'').
List of sub-prefectures by department and by region
* The following is a list of departments grouped by region. Shown next to each department is its populati ...
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Avenue Charles de Gaulle
Avenue Charles de Gaulle is one of the main streets and principal commercial avenue of N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, which is named after former French president Charles de Gaulle. It runs in a roughly west–east direction through the city. ...
Lake Fitri
Lake Fitri is located in the center of Chad about 300 km east of N’Djamena. The normal size of the lake is about . The size of this lake can triple in wetter years. This freshwater lake is shallow and is fed by seasonal rainfall and run-o ...
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Lake Chad
Lake Chad (french: Lac Tchad) is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Central Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries. According to the ''Global Resource Information Database'' of the United Nations Environment Programme, ...
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Tibesti Soda Lake
Trou au Natron (French: "hole of natron") or ( Teda: "big hole") is a volcanic caldera of the Tibesti Massif in the nation of Chad in Northern Africa. The volcano is extinct. It is unknown when it last erupted. Its volcano number is 0205–01. ...
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Lake Fianga
Lake Fianga is a lake in Chad and Cameroon. It does not have clearly delineated borders, as it forms the western border of an area of permanent swampland. The lake forms with the seasonal flooding of the Logone River.
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Lake Yoa
Lake Yoa is the most famous, and second largest of the Lakes of Ounianga, a series of Lakes in Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region basin of northeastern Chad. It is located in the Ounianga Kebir about 40 km west of Ounianga Sarir. These lakes are ...
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List of volcanoes in Chad
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Chad.
References
Notes
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Emi Koussi
Emi Koussi (also known as Emi Koussou) is a high pyroclastic shield volcano that lies at the southeast end of the Tibesti Mountains in the central Sahara, in the northern Borkou Region of northern Chad. The highest mountain of the Sahara, the vo ...
Toussidé
Toussidé (also known as Tarso Toussidé) is a potentially Volcano#Active, active stratovolcano in Chad. Toussidé lies in the Tibesti Mountains, the large Yirrigué caldera and the smaller Trou au Natron and Doon Kidimi Volcanic crater, crater ...
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Tarso Voon
The Tarso Voon is a high stratovolcano in the north of the Republic of Chad. It is located in the western center of the Tibesti Mountains.
The summit of the mountain is dominated by the relatively flat caldera. Extensive basaltic flows lie on ...
Aorounga crater
Aorounga is an eroded meteorite impact crater in Chad, Africa. The exposed remnant of the crater is in diameter and its age is estimated to be less than 345 million years ( Carboniferous or younger).VINCENT P.M., BEAUVILAIN A., 1996. Découver ...
List of rivers of Chad
This is a list of rivers in Chad. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Gulf of Guinea
*''Niger River (Nigeria)''
**''Benue River (Nigeria)''
***Mayo Kébbi
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Bahr Salamat
Bahr Salamat is a seasonally intermittent river in Chad. It flows southwards, and is a tributary of the Chari River.
When the Bahr Salama river is flowing, it runs through the community of Am Timan
Am Timan (Arabic: أم تيمان, ''ʾUmm T ...
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Chari River
The Chari River, or Shari River, is a long river, flowing in Central Africa. It is Lake Chad's main source of water.
Geography
The Chari River flows from the Central African Republic through Chad into Lake Chad, following the Cameroon border f ...
Mayo Kébbi
The Mayo Kébbi is a river in Central and West Africa. The river rises in Chad, then flows west into the Bénoué River. Mayo-Kébbi Prefecture in Chad is named for it. The Mayo Kébbi is the major outlet for Lake Fianga, shared between Ca ...
Batha River
The Batha River is an ephemeral river in Chad. As with any rivers or lakes in this region, its existence depends on the amount of rainfall. The river's delta is at Lake Fitri in Chad. Batha River carries water west from Ouaddaï highlands Ouadda ...
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Bragoto River
The Bragoto River is a river in southern Chad. It is a tributary of the Chari River
The Chari River, or Shari River, is a long river, flowing in Central Africa. It is Lake Chad's main source of water.
Geography
The Chari River flows from the ...
Bahr Salamat Faunal Reserve
Bahr Salamat Faunal Reserve (Réserve de faune du Bahr Salamat) is a conservation area in Chad. It is named after the Bahr Salamat River which flows through it. The area was designated 1 January 1964 and is classed as IUCN category IV (Habita ...
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Zakouma National Park
Zakouma National Park is a national park in southeastern Chad, straddling the border of Guéra Region and Salamat Region. Zakouma is the nation's oldest national park, declared a national park in 1963 by presidential decree, giving it the highes ...
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Aouk National Park
Aouk National Park is a national park in Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Su ...
Guelta d'Archei
The Guelta d'Archei is one of the most famous gueltas in the Sahara. It is located in the Ennedi Plateau, in north-eastern Chad, south-east of the town of Fada. The Guelta d'Archei is inhabited by several kinds of animals, most notably the Wes ...
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Bodélé Depression
The Bodélé Depression (), located at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in north central Africa, is the lowest point in Chad. It is 500 km long, 150 km wide and around 160 m deep. Its bottom lies about 155 meters above sea leve ...
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Borkou
Borku (french: Borkou) or Borgu (') is a region of Central Africa, mostly in Northern Chad, forming part of the transitional zone between the arid wastes of the Sahara and the fertile lands of the central Sudan. It is bounded N. by the Tibesti ...
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Tibesti Mountains
The Tibesti Mountains are a mountain range in the central Sahara, primarily located in the extreme north of Chad, with a small portion located in southern Libya. The highest peak in the range, Emi Koussi, lies to the south at a height of and i ...
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Ennedi Plateau
The Ennedi Plateau is located in the northeast of Chad, in the regions of Ennedi-Ouest and Ennedi-Est. It is considered a part of the group of mountains known as the Ennedi Massif found in Chad, which is one of the nine countries that make up t ...
Aloba Arch
Aloba Arch is the name of a natural arch located in Chad. Large natural arches are somewhat rare outside the southern and western regions of China and the Colorado Plateau of the southwest United States. Chad's Ennedi Plateau, located within th ...
Vulpes riffautae
''Vulpes riffautae'' is an extinction, extinct species of fox from the late Miocene of Chad (approximately 7 Megaannum, ma). Fossils of ''V. riffautae'' potentially represent the earliest record of the dog Family (biology), family, Canidae, in th ...
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List of ecoregions in Chad
The following is a list of ecoregions in Chad, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Terrestrial ecoregions
''By major habitat type:''
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
*East Sudanian savanna
*Sahelian Ac ...
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South Saharan steppe and woodlands
The South Saharan steppe and woodlands, also known as the South Sahara desert, is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion of northern Africa. This band is a transitional region between the Sahara's very arid center (the Sahara desert ecoregion ...
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Sahel
The Sahel (; ar, ساحل ' , "coast, shore") is a region in North Africa. It is defined as the ecoclimatic and biogeographic realm of transition between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian savanna to the south. Having a hot semi-arid c ...
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Sahara
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Sudan (region)
Sudan is the geographical region to the south of the Sahara, stretching from Western Africa to Central and Eastern Africa. The name derives from the Arabic ' (), or "the lands of the Blacks", referring to West Africa and northern Central Africa ...
Baggara
The Baggāra ( ar, :wikt:بقار#Etymology 2, البَقَّارَة "heifer herder") or Chadian Arabs are a Nomad, nomadic confederation of people of mixed Arabs, Arab and Arabization, Arabized Indigenous peoples of Africa, indigenous African a ...
Bidayat
Tuba, also Bidayat (Bideyat), is a dialect of the Zaghawa language found in Chad and western Sudan. In contrast to their Zaghawa kin, Bidayat speakers are more nomadic. This difference led early ethnographers to refer to them as different gro ...
Am Dam
Am Dam ( ar, أم دام) is the capital of Djourf Al Ahmar Department in Sila Region, Chad, located at an important crossroads in the Batha River valley. It is a small town about northwest of Goz-Beida and by road from the capital N'Djamena. ...
Fur
Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of mammals. It consists of a combination of oily guard hair on top and thick underfur beneath. The guard hair keeps moisture from reaching the skin; the underfur acts as an insulating blanket t ...
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Haddad
Haddad (Aramaic: ܚܕܕ or ܚܕܐܕ, ar, حداد, he, חדד;) is a primarily Levantine family name originating in Aramaic.
The original Haddad (Aramaic: ܚܕܕ or ܚܕܐܕ) surname means ''blacksmith'' in Semitic languages. It is commonly u ...
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Hadjarai The Hadjarai are a group of peoples comprising 6.7% of the population of Chad, or more than 150,000 people. The name is an Arabic exonym, literally meaning "hoseof the stones" (i.e. of the mountains). It is used collectively to describe several dist ...
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Hausa
Hausa may refer to:
* Hausa people, an ethnic group of West Africa
* Hausa language, spoken in West Africa
* Hausa Kingdoms, a historical collection of Hausa city-states
* Hausa (horse) or Dongola horse, an African breed of riding horse
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Hawazma
Hawazma, part of Sudan's Baggara tribe, are cattle herders who roam the area from the southern parts of North Kurdufan to the southern borders of South Kurdufan, a distance of about 300 kilometers. Through their nomadic movement, the Hawazma know ...
Kanuri people
The Kanuri people (Kanouri, Kanowri, also Yerwa, Baribari and several subgroup names) are an List of ethnic groups of Africa, African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former Kanem Empire, Kanem and Bornu Empires in Niger, Nigeria ...
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Kim
Kim or KIM may refer to:
Names
* Kim (given name)
* Kim (surname)
** Kim (Korean surname)
*** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties
**** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948
** Kim, Vietnamese f ...
Masalit The Masalit (Masalit language, Masalit: ''masala/masara''; ar, ماساليت) are an ethnic group inhabiting western Sudan and eastern Chad. They speak the Masalit language
Overview
The Masalit primarily live in Geneina, the capital of west Darfu ...
Sara
Sara may refer to:
Arts, media and entertainment Film and television
* ''Sara'' (1992 film), 1992 Iranian film by Dariush Merhjui
* ''Sara'' (1997 film), 1997 Polish film starring Bogusław Linda
* ''Sara'' (2010 film), 2010 Sri Lankan Sinhal ...
Toubou
The Toubou or Tubu (from Old Tebu, meaning "rock people") are an ethnic group native to the Tibesti Mountains that inhabit the central Sahara in northern Chad, southern Libya and northeastern Niger. They live either as herders and nomads or as ...
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Tunjur
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The Tunjur (or Tungur) people are a Sunni Muslim ethnic group living in eastern Chad and western Sudan. In the 21st century, their number has been estimated at 175.000 people.
History
Based on linguistic and archaeological evidence, th ...
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Tupuri
Tupuri (or Toupouri) is a language mostly spoken in the Mayo-Kebbi Est Region of southern Chad and in small parts of northern Cameroon. It is an Mbum language spoken by the Tupuri people with approximately 300,000 speakers.
Tupuri was erroneou ...
Zaghawa people
The Zaghawa people, also called Beri or Zakhawa, are a Sahelian Muslim ethnic group primarily residing in Fezzan North-eastern Chad, and western Sudan, including Darfur.
Zaghawas speak the Zaghawa language, which is an eastern Saharan language. ...
Adamawa languages
The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in central Africa, in Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Chad, spoken altogether by only one and a half million people (as of 19 ...
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Biu–Mandara languages
The Biu–Mandara or Central Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.
A reconstruction of Proto-Central Chadic has been proposed by Gravina (2014).
Languages Gravina (2014)
Gravina (2014) classifies ...
Bua languages
The Bua languages are a subgroup of the Mbum–Day subgroup of the Savanna languages spoken by fewer than 30,000 people in southern Chad in an area stretching roughly between the Chari River and the Guéra Massif. They were labeled "G13" in Jo ...
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Chadic languages
The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 150 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, the Central African Republic, and northern Cam ...
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Daju languages
The Daju languages are spoken in isolated pockets by the Daju people across a wide area of Sudan and Chad. In Sudan, they are spoken in parts of the regions of Kordofan, Darfur, in Chad they are spoken in Wadai. The Daju languages belong to th ...
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East Chadic languages
The three dozen East Chadic languages of the Chadic family are spoken in Chad and Cameroon.
Speakers of various East Chadic languages are locally known as Hadjarai peoples. The largest East Chadic language is Nancere.
Languages
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East Chadic A languages
The three dozen East Chadic languages of the Chadic family are spoken in Chad and Cameroon.
Speakers of various East Chadic languages are locally known as Hadjarai peoples. The largest East Chadic language is Nancere.
Languages
The branc ...
East Chadic B languages
The three dozen East Chadic languages of the Chadic family are spoken in Chad and Cameroon.
Speakers of various East Chadic languages are locally known as Hadjarai peoples. The largest East Chadic language is Nancere.
Languages
The branche ...
Kim languages
The Kim languages are a small group of the Mbum–Day languages of the provisional Savanna family, spoken in southern Chad. There are three languages:
:Kim (Garap, Gerep, Kolop, Kosop), Besme, Goundo.
Goundo is nearly extinct, and Besme has o ...
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Kotoko languages Kotoko may refer to:
* Kotoko (musician), a Japanese singer
* ''Kotoko'' (film), a Japanese film
* Kotoko, a character from ''Chobits''
* The Kotoko kingdom The Kotoko kingdom was an monarchy in what is today northern Cameroon and Nigeria, and so ...
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Maban languages
The Maban languages are a small family of languages which have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan family. Maban languages are spoken in eastern Chad, the Central African Republic and western Sudan ( Darfur).
Languages
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Masa languages
The Masa languages are a group of closely related Chadic languages of southwestern Chad and northern Cameroon.
Languages
The Masa languages listed in Blench (2006) are:
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**Massa (Masana)
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**Musey–Azumeina
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Mbum languages
The Mbum or Kebi-Benue languages (also known as Lakka in narrower scope) are a group of the Mbum–Day branch of the Adamawa languages, spoken in southern Chad, northwestern Central African Republic, northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria. Their ...
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Mbum–Day languages
The Mbum–Day languages are a subgroup of the old Adamawa languages family (G6, G13, G14, & Day), provisionally now a branch of the Savanna languages. These languages are spoken in southern Chad, northwestern Central African Republic, northern Ca ...
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Mimi language Mimi is a name applied to several at-best distantly related Nilo-Saharan languages of the Wadai area of Chad. It is most commonly used for the Fur relative Amdang, with several tens of thousands of speakers, but also for two extinct and possibly ...
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Saharan languages
The Saharan languages are a small family of languages across parts of the eastern Sahara, extending from northwestern Darfur to southern Libya, north and central Chad, eastern Niger and northeastern Nigeria. Noted Saharan languages include Kanuri ...
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Sara languages
The Sara languages comprise over a dozen Bongo–Bagirmi languages spoken mainly in Chad; a few are also spoken in the north of the Central African Republic. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family. Greenberg (1966) treats all var ...
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Taman languages
The Taman languages form a putative branch of the Eastern Sudanic language family spoken in Chad and Sudan, though ''Glottolog'' notes that "no conclusive, methodologically sound basis for assigning Tama to Eastern Sudanic" has been presented ...
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Tebu languages
Tebu is a small family of two Saharan languages, consisting of Daza and Teda. It is spoken by the two groups of Toubou people, the ''Daza'' and ''Teda''.
Tebu is predominantly spoken in Chad and in southern Libya by around 580,000 people. Daza ...
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Ubangian languages
The Ubangian languages form a diverse linkage of some seventy languages centered on the Central African Republic. They are the predominant languages of the CAR, spoken by 2–3 million people, and include the national language, Sango. They are ...
Languages
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Amdang language
Amdang (also Biltine; autonym: ''sìmí amdangtí'') is a language closely related to Fur, which together constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. It is mainly spoken in Chad, north of the town of Biltine, and sporadically els ...
Bidiyo language
Bidiyo (also known as Bidyo, Bidio, 'Bidio, 'Bidiyo, Bidiyo-Waana, Bidiya) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in south central Chad
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Birgit language
Birgit (also known as Bergit, Birgid, Berguid) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in southeastern Chad. Speakers are found in Moubi Goz Canton, Kouka Margni Sub-prefecture and in Moubi Zarga Canton, Mangalmé Sub-prefecture.Oxfam
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Bolgo language
The Bolgo language is a member of the Bua languages spoken in south-central Chad, in the villages of Koya, Boli, Gagne, and Bedi southeast of Melfi, by about 1,800 people (SIL 1993). Speakers also make up the majority of the population of Sork ...
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Boor language
Boor (also known as Bwara, Damraw) is an endangered Afro-Asiatic language spoken in southern Chad. The language has less than 100 native speakers worldwide.
Regions where the language is spoken include southern Chad, the Bousso Subprefecture, ...
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Bua language
The Bua language (also called Ba) is spoken north of the Chari River around Korbol and Gabil in Chad. In 1993 it was spoken by some 8,000 people. It is the largest member of the small Bua group of languages and is mutually comprehensible with ...
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Buduma language
Yedina, also known as Buduma (Boudouma), is a Chadic language of the Biu–Mandara branch spoken around Lake Chad in western Chad and neighbouring Cameroon and Nigeria.
200 speakers live in Cameroon, and the rest live in Chad.
See also
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Buso language
Kwang is an East Chadic language of Chad.
References
Languages of Chad
East Chadic languages
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Chadian Arabic
Chadian Arabic ( ar, لهجة تشادية), also known as Shuwa Arabic, Baggara Arabic, Western Sudanic Arabic, or West Sudanic Arabic (WSA), is a variety of Arabic and the first language of 1.6 million people, both town dwellers and nomadic c ...
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Dangaléat language
Dangaléat (also known as Dangla, Danal, Dangal) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. Speakers make up the majority of the population of Migami Canton in Mongo, Chad.Oxfam
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Day language
Day is an Adamawa language of southern Chad, spoken by 50,000 or so people southeast of Sarh
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Dazaga language
Daza (also known as Dazaga) is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Daza people inhabiting northern Chad. The Daza are also known as the Gouran (Gorane) in Chad. Dazaga is spoken by around 380,000 people, primarily in the Djurab Desert regi ...
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Fula language
Fula ,Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh also known as Fulani or Fulah (, , ; Adlam: , , ), is a Senegambian language spoken by around 30 million people as a set of various dialects in a continuum that stre ...
Jonkor Bourmataguil language
Jonkor Bourmataguil (also known as Djongor Bourmataguil, Dougne, Karakir) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroa ...
Kanuri language
Kanuri () is a dialect continuum spoken in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as in small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan.
Background
At the turn of the 21st century, its two main dialects, Manga Kanuri and Yerwa ...
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Kera language
Kera is an East Chadic languages, East Chadic language spoken by 45,000 people in Southwest Chad and 6,000 people in North Cameroon.
It was called "Tuburi" by Joseph Greenberg, a name shared with Tupuri language, Tupuri.
In Cameroon, Kera is sp ...
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Kujargé language
The Kujargé language is spoken in seven villages in eastern Chad near Jebel Mirra (), and in villages scattered along the lower Wadi Salih and Wadi Azum in Darfur, Sudan. It is estimated to have about 1000 speakers ().
Background
The name '' ...
Lagwan language
Lagwan (Logone) is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects include Logone-Birni and Logone-Gana.
Lagwan is spoken in the northern part of Logone-Birni, from the banks of the Logone River to the Nigerian bor ...
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Mabire language
Mabire is a critically endangered Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Oulek village in Chad
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Masalit language
Masalit (autonym ''Masala/Masara'', ) is a language spoken by the Masalit people in western Darfur, Sudan.
Masalit, known as the ''Massalat'' moved west into central-eastern Chad. Their ethnic population in Chad was as of the 1993 census, but ...
Massa language
Massa (or Masana, Masa) is a Chadic language spoken in southern Chad and northern Cameroon by the Masa people. It has approximately 200,000 speakers.
Dialects are Bongor, Bugudum (Budugum), Domo, Gizay, Gumay, Ham, Walia, Wina (Viri), Yagwa.
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Mawa language (Chad)
Mawa (also known as Mahwa, Mahoua) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad.
Notes
References
Hutchinson, Noelle, and Eric Johnson. 2006. A sociolinguistic survey of the Ubi language of Chad. ''SIL Electronic Survey Reports'' 20 ...
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Migaama language
Migaama (also known as Migama, Jongor, Djonkor, Dionkor, Dyongor, Djonkor About Telfane) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. Speakers make up the majority of the population of Bang Bang, Chad.Oxfam
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Mogum language
Mogum (also known as Mogoum) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in south central Chad. Speakers are found in Sorki canton in Chinguil sub-prefecture.Oxfam
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Mser language
Mser (Msər), or Kousseri (Kuseri), is a moribund Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Gawi, Houlouf, Kabe, Kalo, Mser (Kuseri).
In Cameroon, Mser is spoken in Kousseri (Kousséri and Logone-Birn ...
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Mubi language
Mubi (also known as Moubi) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. It forms one of the Mubi languages
The three dozen East Chadic languages of the Chadic family are spoken in Chad and Cameroon.
Speakers of various East Chadic la ...
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Naba language
Naba is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by approximately 900,000 people in Chad. Those who speak this language are called Lisi, a collective name for three closely associated ethnic groups, the Bilala, the Kuka and the Medogo, that represent ...
Saba language
Saba is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in south central Chad. Speakers are found in Sorki canton in Chinguil
Chinguil is a sub-prefecture of Guéra Region in Chad.
Demographics
Ethnic composition by canton in 2016:Oxfam
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Sarua language
Sarua (also known as Sarwa, Saroua) is an Afro-Asiatic languages, Afro-Asiatic language spoken in southwestern Chad.
Notes
East Chadic languages
Languages of Chad
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Sokoro language
Sokoro is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. Dialects are Bedanga and Sokoro. Speakers make up the majority of the population of Gogmi Canton in Melfi, Chad.Oxfam
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Tama language
Tama, or Damut, is the primary language spoken by the Tama people in Ouaddai Region, Ouaddai, eastern Chad and in Darfur, western Sudan. It is a member of the Taman languages, Taman language family. Miisiirii language, Miisiirii is often conside ...
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Tamki language
Tamki (also known as Temki) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad.
Notes
References
* Dakouli, Padeu, Antje Maass, and David Toomey. 1996. Rapid appraisal of the Saba language of the Guera, Chad. N’Djamena: Association SIL. ...
Toram language
Toram (also known as Torom and Torum) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. Speakers have shifted to Chadian Arabic
Chadian Arabic ( ar, لهجة تشادية), also known as Shuwa Arabic, Baggara Arabic, Western Sudanic Arabic, ...
Zaghawa language
Zaghawa is a Saharan language spoken by the Zaghawa people of east-central Chad (in the Sahel) and northwestern Sudan (Darfur). The people who speak this language call it Beria, from ''Beri'', the endonym of the Zaghawa people, and ''a'', Zaghaw ...
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Zirenkel language
Zirenkel is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Chad.
Notes
References
Johnson, Eric. 2005. Étude sociolinguistique de la langue Zirenkel du Tchad. ''SIL Electronic Survey Reports'' 2005–023. Dallas: SIL International. Online. URL: ht ...
History of Chad
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African Democratic Rally
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Central Emergency Response Fund
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Second Battle of Adré
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Chadian Armed Forces
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Chadian National Armed Forces The Chadian National Armed Forces (''Forces Armées Nationales Tchadiennes'' or FANT) was the army of the central government of Chad from January 1983, when the President Hissène Habré's forces, in first place his personal Armed Forces of the Nort ...
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Heads of state of Chad
This is a list of heads of state of Chad since the country gained independence from France in 1960 to the present day.
A total of six people have served as head of state of Chad (not counting two Interim Heads of State). Additionally, one pers ...
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Heads of government of Chad
This is a list of prime ministers of Chad since the formation of the post of Prime Minister of Chad in 1978 to the present day.
A total of eighteen people have served as Prime Minister of Chad (not counting one Acting Prime Minister). Additio ...
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Colonial heads of Chad
(Dates in ''italics'' indicate ''de facto'' continuation of office)
For continuation after independence, ''see: ''President of Chad
See also
* Chad
**Heads of state of Chad
**Heads of government of Chad
This is a list of prime ministers ...
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Prime Minister of Chad
This is a list of prime ministers of Chad since the formation of the post of Prime Minister of Chad in 1978 to the present day.
A total of eighteen people have served as Prime Minister of Chad (not counting one Acting Prime Minister). Addition ...
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Chadian coup of 1975
Chadian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Chad
* A person from Chad, or of Chadian descent. For information about the Chadian people, see Demographics of Chad and Culture of Chad. For specific persons, see List of Cha ...
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Colonial Chad
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Transitional Government of National Unity
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Kanem Empire Kanem may refer to:
* Kanem–Bornu Empire, existed in modern Chad and Nigeria known to Arabian geographers from the 9th century AD onward and lasted as the independent kingdom of Bornu until 1900
* Kanem Prefecture, of former prefectures of Chad
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Bornu Empire Bornu may refer to:
* Bornu Empire Bornu may refer to:
* Bornu Empire, a historical state of West Africa
* Borno State
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Kingdom of Baguirmi
The Sultanate or Kingdom of Bagirmi or Baghermi (french: Royaume du Baguirmi) was a kingdom and Islamic sultanate southeast of Lake Chad in central Africa. It was founded in either 1480 or 1522 and lasted until 1897, when it became a French prote ...
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Ouaddai Empire
The Wadai Sultanate ( ar, سلطنة وداي ''Saltanat Waday'', french: royaume du Ouaddaï, Fur: ''Burgu'' or ''Birgu''; 1501–1912) was an African sultanate located to the east of Lake Chad in present-day Chad and the Central African Republ ...
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Kano Accord
The Kano Accord was preceded by the collapse of central authority in Chad in 1979, when the Prime Minister, Hissène Habré, had unleashed his militias on February 12 against the capital N'Djamena and the sitting president, Félix Malloum. To ro ...
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Lagos Accord {{Short description, 1979 Chadian Civil War peace treaty
The Lagos Accord was a peace agreement signed on August 21, 1979, by representatives of eleven warring factions of the Chadian Civil War, after a conference in Lagos, Nigeria. The accord est ...
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Tripoli Agreement
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Battle of Kousséri
The battle of Kousséri originated in French plans to occupy the Chari-Baguirmi region. In 1899–1900, the French organized three armed columns, one proceeding north from Congo, one east from Niger and another south from Algeria. The objecti ...
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Njimi Njimi was the capital of the Kanuri state of Kanem (later Kanem-Bornu), north of Lake Chad, from the 11th through the 14th centuries. Founded by the Sefawa dynasty in the 11th century, the town dominated trans-Saharan trade in ivory and slaves ...
Sao civilisation
The Sao civilization (also called So) flourished in Central Africa from ca. the fourth or sixth century BC to as late as the sixteenth century AD. The Sao lived by the Chari River basin in territory that later became part of Cameroon and Chad. The ...
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Sayfawa dynasty
Sayfawa dynasty, Sefouwa, Sefawa, or Sefuwa dynasty is the name of the Muslim kings (or ''mai'', as they called themselves) of the Kanem–Bornu Empire, centered first in Kanem in western Chad, and then, after 1380, in Borno (today north-easte ...
Cotton Price Stabilization Board The Cotton Price Stabilization Board (French: ''Caisse de Stabilisation des Prix du Coton'', CSPC) was a Chadian governative board created in 1965. Its task was to stabilize prices paid to peasant producers by funding operating losses incurred by Co ...
Operation Epervier
Operation or Operations may refer to:
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Ouadi Doum air raid
The Ouadi Doum airstrike was carried out by French aircraft on 16 February 1986, against the Libyan airbase of Ouadi Doum in northern Chad, during the Chadian–Libyan conflict. The raid was significant in that it demonstrated French resolve ...
Battle of Fada
The Battle of Fada took place in northern Chad in 1987, and was a turning point of the Chadian–Libyan conflict.
Prelude
At the beginning of 1986 the Libyans controlled all Chad north of the 16th parallel. However, when France intervened ...
Australopithecus bahrelghazali
''Australopithecus bahrelghazali'' is an extinct species of australopithecine discovered in 1995 at Koro Toro, Bahr el Gazel, Chad, existing around 3.5 million years ago in the Pliocene. It is the first and only australopithecine known from Ce ...
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Sahelanthropus tchadensis
''Sahelanthropus tchadensis'' is an extinct species of the Homininae (African apes) dated to about , during the Miocene epoch. The species, and its genus ''Sahelanthropus'', was announced in 2002, based mainly on a partial cranium, nicknamed ' ...
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Abel (hominid)
Abel (KT-12/H1) is the name given to the only specimen ever discovered of ''Australopithecus bahrelghazali''. Abel was found in January 1995 in Chad in the Kanem Region by the paleontologist Michel Brunet,Brunet, M., Beauvilain, A., Coppens, Y. ...
Aouzou Strip
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Dar Sila
Dar Sila is the name of the wandering sultanate of the Dar Sila Daju, a multi-tribal ethnic group in Chad and Sudan. The number of the people in this group exceeds 50,000. They speak the Sila language, a Nilo-Saharan language. Most members of this ...
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Battle of Togbao
On October 10, 1898 a French military expedition commanded by the ''Lieutenant de vaisseau'' Henri Bretonnet and the Lt. Solomon Braun left France directed to Chad, at the time dominated by the Muslim warlord Rabih az-Zubayr. With the missions we ...
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April 8 Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement
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Battle of Kouno
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On August 16, 1899 the leader of t ...
Islamic Legion
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Toyota War
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Operation Manta
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Girgam
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Sahel drought
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Derde
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He is elected among the three mo ...
UTA Flight 772
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African Socialist Movement
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Wadai War
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Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative
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Second Tuareg Rebellion
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Pan Sahel Initiative The Pan-Sahel Initiative, according to a November 7, 2002, by the Office of Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State, was "a State-led effort to assist Mali, Niger, Chad, and Mauritania in detecting and responding to suspicious movement of pe ...
United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad
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Battle of Kufra (1941)
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EUFOR Tchad/RCA
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Battle of N'Djamena (2008)
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From the government's viewpoint, the attack only took place on Ma ...
Agisymba Agisymba was an unidentified country in Africa mentioned by Ptolemy in the middle of the 2nd century AD.
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Chadian presidential election, 2006
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Chadian presidential election, 2001
Presidential elections were held in Chad on 20 May 2001. Incumbent List of heads of state of Chad, President Idriss Déby of the Patriotic Salvation Movement was re-elected with 63% of the vote.
Candidates
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Chadian presidential election, 1996
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Chadian constitutional referendum, 2005
A constitutional referendum was held in Chad on 6 June 2005. The amendments to the constitution were approved by 66% of voters.
Background
The proposed amendments to the constitution included the removal of two-term limit on the President, the r ...
Chadian parliamentary election, 1997
Parliamentary elections were held in Chad on 5 January 1997, with a second round on 23 February. They were the first multi-party elections since independence in 1960 and resulted in a victory for the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), which ...
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Chadian constitutional referendum, 1996
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Patriotic Salvation Movement
The Patriotic Salvation Movement ( ar, الحركة الوطنية للإنقاذ, french: Mouvement patriotique du salut, MPS) is the ruling political party in Chad.
History
After Idriss Déby, an army commander who participated in an uns ...
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Rally for Democracy and Progress (Chad)
The Rally for Democracy and Progress ( ar, التجمع من أجل الديمقراطية والتقدم, french: Rassemblement pour la démocratie et le progrès) is a political party in Chad, led by Lol Mahamat Choua.
The party was founded by ...
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Front of Action Forces for the Republic
Federation, Action for the Republic (french: Fédération, action pour la république, FAR/Parti Fédération) is a political party in Chad. It is considered a radical opposition party and is led by Ngarlejy Yorongar. The FAR supports federalism ...
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National Rally for Development and Progress
The National Rally for Development and Progress (french: Rassemblement national pour le développement et le progrès, also known as VIVA) is a political party in Chad, led by Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye. It was founded in early 1992, with Koumakoy ...
Union for Renewal and Democracy
The Union for Renewal and Democracy (french: Union pour le renouveau et la démocratie) is a political party in Chad. Its current president is Sande Ngaryimbé, its first being Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué.Action for Unity and Socialism
Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism (french: link=no, Action Tchadienne pour l'unité et le socialisme) is a communist party in Chad, led by Fidèle Moungar. The party was founded in 1981.
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Action for Renewal of Chad
The Action for Renewal of Chad () is a political party in Chad.
In the legislative elections
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People's Movement for Democracy in Chad
The People's Movement for Democracy in Chad (french: Mouvement populaire pour la démocratie au Tchad) is a political party in Chad.
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National Democratic and Federal Convention
The National Democratic and Federal Convention () is a political party in Chad.
According to IPU Parline, the party won 1 out of 155 seats in the 2002 Chadian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Chad on 21 April 2002.
National Rally for Democracy in Chad
The National Rally of Chadian Democrats (), formerly the National Rally for Democracy in Chad (french: Rassemblement national pour la démocratie au Tchad - le Réveil), is a democratic socialist political party in Chad. It is considered a semi-o ...
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National Union (Chad)
The National Union () is a political party in Chad.
At the last legislative elections, 21 April 2002, the party won according to IPU Parline 1 out of 155 seats
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Rally of Democratic Forces in Chad
The Rally of Democratic Forces in Chad () is a political party in Chad.
At the last legislative elections
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Union for Democracy and Republic (Chad)
The Union for Democracy and Republic (''Union pour la Démocratie et la République'' or UDR) is a Chadian political party founded in 1992. In March the party elected as its president Jean Alingué Bawoyeu, who had just left the position of Prime ...
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Party for Liberty and Development
The Party for Liberty and Development (in French ''Parti pour les Libertés et le Développement'' or PLD) is a Chadian political party led by Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh. An opposition party based in the Muslim and Arab east, it took three seats in ...
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Renewed African Socialist Movement
The Renewed African Socialist Movement (french: Mouvement Socialiste Africain Renouveau) is a political party in Chad. It is considered a moderate opposition party allied with the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), and it participates in th ...
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National Union for Independence and Revolution
The National Union for Independence and Revolution (french: Union Nationale pour l'indépendance et la révolution, UNIR) was the ruling party in Chad between 1984 and 1990. It was founded in June 1984 by President Hissène Habré as a successor o ...
Rebel militia groups
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FROLINAT
FROLINAT (french: Front de libération nationale du Tchad; en, National Liberation Front of Chad) was an insurgent rebel group active in Chad between 1966 and 1993.
Origins
The organization was a result of the political union between the left ...
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Armed Forces of the North
The Armed Forces of the North (''Forces Armées du Nord'' or FAN) was a Chadian rebel army active during the Chadian Civil War. Composed of FROLINAT units that remained loyal to Hissène Habré following his break from Goukouni Oueddei and the ...
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People's Armed Forces
The People's Armed Forces (''Forces Armées Populaires'' or FAP) was a Chadian insurgent group composed of followers of Goukouni Oueddei after the schism with Hissène Habré in 1976. With an ethnic base in the Teda clan of the Toubou from the Ti ...
Codos {{For, the Spanish municipality, Codos, Aragon
The Codos or Commandos were guerrilla groups, active in southern Chad from 1983 to 1986, that resisted domination of their region by the President Hissène Habré's army. Many were veterans of the go ...
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Popular Movement for the Liberation of Chad {{BLP primary sources, date=June 2021
The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Chad (''Mouvement Populaire pour la Libération du Tchad'' or MPLT) was a small rebel group active in Chad during the civil war.
It was born in 1977 as a splinter gro ...
Command Council of the Armed Forces of the North
The Command Council of the Armed Forces of the North or CCFAN) was a Chadian rebel army active during the Chadian Civil War. Originally called Second Liberation Army of National Liberation Front of Chad (FROLINAT), and was one of the original g ...
Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad (french: Mouvement pour la democratie et la justice au Tchad, abbreviated as MDJT) is a Chadian rebel group that tried to oust the government of the current Chadian president Idriss Déby from October 1998 ...
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Platform for Change, Unity and Democracy Platform for Change, Unity and Democracy, abbreviated as S.C.U.D. (Socle pour le Changement, l'Unité et la Démocratie in French), is a Chadian rebel group that was formed in October 2005 by former members of the Military of Chad who deserted an ...
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Rally for Democracy and Liberty
The Rally for Democracy and Liberty, abbreviated as R.D.L. (Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et la Liberté in French) is a Chadian rebel group that was formed in August 2005 by former members of the Military of Chad who deserted and united under ...
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United Front for Democratic Change
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Liberation Front of Chad
The Liberation Front of Chad (''Front de Libération du Tchad'' or FLT) was an insurgent group active between 1965 and 1976 during the first phase of the Chadian Civil War.
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Volcan Army
The Volcan Army was a Chadian insurgent rebel group that was active during the Chadian Civil War. The movement was founded in 1970 by the Arab insurgent leader Mohamed Baghlani, who had been expelled in June from the FROLINAT by the organization ...
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Rally of Democratic Forces (rebel group)
The Rally of Forces for Change (in French: ''Rassemblement des forces pour le changement'' or RFC), formerly the Rally of Democratic Forces (in French: ''Rassemblement des Forces Démocratiques'' or RaFD) is a Chadian rebel group led by Timan ...
Union of Forces for Democracy and Development-Fundamental
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Government of Chad
The Government of Chad has been ruled by Mahamat Déby since 20th April 2021.
The Republic of Chad maintains an embassy in the United States at 2401 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington D.C.
Cabinet
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National Assembly of Chad
The National Assembly (''Assemblée Nationale'') was the parliament of Chad. It had 188 members, elected for a four-year term.https://data.ipu.org/node/34/basic-information?chamber_id=13540 It had 25 single-member constituencies and 34 multi- ...
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Foreign relations of Chad
The foreign relations of Chad are significantly influenced by the desire for oil revenue and investment in Chadian oil industry and support for former Chadian President Idriss Déby. Chad is officially non-aligned but has close relations with F ...
La Tchadienne
"" (, ) is the national anthem of Chad. Written by Louis Gidrol and his student group and composed by R. Paul Villard, Paul Villard, it has been the official state anthem of Chad since it gained independence French Chad, from France in January 19 ...
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Flag of Chad
The national flag of Chad (french: Drapeau du Tchad; ar, علم تشاد) is a vertical tricolour consisting (left to right) of a blue, a gold and a red field. Since the 1990s, its similarity to the flag of Romania has caused international d ...
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Coat of arms of Chad
The coat of arms of Chad was adopted in 1970. The center has a shield with jagged blue and yellow lines (''barry dancetty''), with a sun rising over it. The shield is supported by a goat and a lion. Below the shield is a medal and a scroll with ...
Prime Minister of Chad
This is a list of prime ministers of Chad since the formation of the post of Prime Minister of Chad in 1978 to the present day.
A total of eighteen people have served as Prime Minister of Chad (not counting one Acting Prime Minister). Addition ...
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Military of Chad
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Chad Air Force
The Chadian Air Force (french: Armée de l'Air Tchadienne or AAT) is the aviation branch of the Chad National Army. It was formed in 1961 as the Chadian National Flight/Squadron ( or ENT).
The force shares a base with French forces at N'Djame ...
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Nomad and National Guard
The National and Nomadic Guard of Chad () is one of five defence and security forces in Chad. (The others are the Army, the Gendarmerie, the Police and the Judicial Police.) Article 200 of the Constitution of 1996 states that the duties of the ...
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Constitutional Council of Chad
The Constitutional Council of Chad judges the constitutionality of legislation and treaties in Chad. It consists of nine judges who are elected to 9-year terms. It is established by Title VII of the Constitution of Chad.
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Supreme Court of Chad
The Supreme Court (French ''Cour Suprême'') is the highest jurisdiction of Chad in judiciary, administrative and tributary fields.
The Supreme Court in the Constitution
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Constitution of Chad
The Constitution of the Republic of Chad (french: Constitution de la République du Tchad) is the supreme law of Chad.Current Constitution of Chad Chad's eighth constitution since independence from France, it was adopted on 4 May 2018.
The text e ...
Education in Chad
Education in Chad is challenging due to the nation's dispersed population and a certain degree of reluctance on the part of parents to send their children to school. Although attendance is compulsory, only 68% of boys continue their education pa ...
Chad Cultural Centre The Chad Cultural Centre is an institution located in Mao, Chad. It was founded by the government in order to foster national traditions.Chad national football team
The Chad national football team ( ar, منتخب تشاد لكرة القدم, french: Équipe du Tchad de football), nicknamed ''Sao'' ( ar, ساو), represents Chad in international football and is controlled by the Chadian Football Federatio ...
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Chad National Museum
The Chad National Museum (french: Musée National du Tchad) is the national museum of Chad. It is located in the capital city of N'Djamena, near Kempinski Hotel N'Djamena. The museum was established on October 6, 1962, in temporary quarters under ...
Chadian Football Federation
The Chadian Football Federation ( ar, الفيدرالية التشادية لكرة القدم, french: Fédération Tchadienne de Football Association, FTFA) is the governing body of football in Chad. It was founded in 1962, and affiliated to F ...
Daratt
''Dry Season'' ; french: Saison sèche) is a 2006 film by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun.
The film was one of seven films from non-Western cultures commissioned by Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope Festival to commemorate the 250th birthday o ...
Music of Chad
Chad is an ethnically diverse Central African country. Each of its regions has its own unique varieties of music and dance. The Fulani people, for example, use single-reeded flutes, while the ancient griot tradition uses five-string kinde and v ...
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Stade Nacional (Chad)
Stade Nacional, also named Stade Omnisports Idriss Mahamat Ouya (Arabic: ملعب وطني), is a multi-use stadium in N'Djamena, Chad. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 20,000 people and it has artificial grass ...
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Kakaki
The kakaki is a three to four metre long metal trumpet used in Hausa traditional ceremonial music. ''Kakaki'' is the name used in Chad, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin Niger, and Nigeria.
The instrument is also known as ''malakat'' in Ethiopia.
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Kaskara
The ''kaskara'' is a type of traditional sword, which is characteristic of Sudan, Chad, and Eritrea. The blade of the kaskara was usually about a yard long, double edged and with a spatulate tip. While most surviving examples are from the 19th ce ...
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Saharan rock art
Saharan rock art is a significant area of archaeological study focusing on artwork carved or painted on the natural rocks of the central Sahara desert. The rock art dates from numerous periods starting years ago, and is significant because it sh ...
Chad Premier League
Chad Premier League (french: Ligue Nationale de Football, also known as LINAFOOT) is a Chadian league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the Chadian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Conte ...
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Chad Cup
The Chad Cup is the top knockout tournament of the Chad football. The winner competes in the CAF Confederation Cup the following season.
History
The first competition began in 1973. The first part of the cup was delayed due to the Chadian Civil ...
Sport in Chad
The principal sports of chad are football, basketball, athletics, boxing, martial arts and fishing, which is mostly known in Lake Chad. The national stadium is the Stade Nacional in the capital, N'Djamena.
Judo in Chad
Judo is increasingly pop ...
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Bye Bye Africa
''Bye Bye Africa'' is a 1999 award-winning Chadian film. It was the first by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun, who also starred. The docu-drama centers on a fictionalized version of Haroun.
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A Chadian film director who lives and works ...
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Literature of Chad
Chadian literature has suffered greatly from the turmoil which has engulfed the country, economical and political. As with many cultures, literature in Chad began with folk tales and legends. While French is the dominant language, Arabic is also ...
Daresalam
''Daresalam'' (English: "Let There Be Peace"F. Pfaff, ''Focus on African Films'', 3) is a 2000 dramatic film by Chadian director Issa Serge Coelo. It has been considered one of the very few recent African films that has treated the theme of the i ...
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Chad national rugby union team
The Chad national rugby union team represents Chad in international rugby union. Chad is not a member of World Rugby (IRB) but is a member of the Confederation of African Rugby (CAR). It has yet to play in a Rugby World Cup tournament.
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CAR Castel Beer Trophy
The African Development Trophy also called CAR Development Trophy is a rugby union tournament consisting of 16 teams played in the continent of Africa, formerly named the CAR Castel Beer Trophy. It is organised by Rugby Africa and was also known ...
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Archdiocese of N'Djamena
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Diocese of Doba
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Doba ( la, Doban(us)) is a diocese in Doba in the Ecclesiastical province of N'Djamena in Chad.
History
* March 6, 1989: Established as Diocese of Doba from the Diocese of Moundou
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Diocese of Goré
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
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Diocese of Lai
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lai ( la, Laien(sis)) is a diocese in Lai in the ecclesiastical province of N'Djamena in Chad.
History
* November 28, 1998: Established as Diocese of Lai from the Diocese of Doba and Diocese of Moundou
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Moundou
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Moundou ( la, Munduen(sis)) is a diocese in Moundou in the ecclesiastical province of N'Djamena in Chad.
History
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Pala
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pala ( la, Palaën(sis)) is a diocese in Pala in the Ecclesiastical province of N'Djamena in Chad.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Sarh
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sarh ( la, Sarhen(sis)) is a diocese in Sarh in the Ecclesiastical province of N'Djamena in Chad.
History
* December 22, 1961: Established as Diocese of Fort-Archambault from the Diocese of Fort-Lamy
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Roman Catholicism in Chad
The Catholic Church in Chad is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The Apostolic Nuncio to Chad is Archbishop Pierre Nguyên Van Tot, appointed August 25, 2005.
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Banque Sahélo-Saharienne pour l'Investissement et le Commerce
Banque Sahélo-Saharienne pour l'Investissement et le Commerce is a commercial bank and investment bank serving several nations in Saharan and Sahelian Africa. The bank's headquarters are located in Libya.
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Bank of Central African States
The Bank of Central African States (french: Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale, BEAC) is a central bank that serves six central African countries which form the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa:
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CFA franc
The CFA franc (french: franc CFA, , Franc of the Financial Community of Africa, originally Franc of the French Colonies in Africa, or colloquially ; abbreviation: F.CFA) is the name of two currencies, the West African CFA franc, used in eight Wes ...
Cotontchad
The Société cotonnière du Tchad, also called Cotontchad, is a parastatal Chadian company operating in a monopoly regime that buys and exports all the cotton produced in Chad
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Ecobank
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Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS; french: Communauté Économique des États de l'Afrique Centrale, CEEAC; es, Comunidad Económica de los Estados de África Central, CEEAC; pt, Comunidade Económica dos Estados da Áfr ...
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Economic Community of Central African States
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS; french: Communauté Économique des États de l'Afrique Centrale, CEEAC; es, Comunidad Económica de los Estados de África Central, CEEAC; pt, Comunidade Económica dos Estados da Áfr ...
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Fishing in Chad
Lake Chad, with its two major rivers and many runoff zones, was ranked high among Africa's producers of inland freshwater fish in the 1970s. With the drought and diversion of the waters of some rivers, however, production declined in the 1980s. Tr ...
Union of Trade Unions of Chad
The Union of Trade Unions of Chad (UST) is a trade union centre in Chad. It was formed originally in 1988 as the National Union of Chadian Workers (UNST). The UNST was dissolved briefly in 1990 and reemerged as the UST.
The UST is affiliated wi ...
Air Afrique
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Abéché Airport
Abéché Airport ( ar, مطار أبشي; french: Aéroport d'Abéché; ) is an airport serving Abéché, the fourth largest city in Chad and the capital city of Chad's Ouaddaï Region.
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Celtel
Celtel was a telecommunications company that operated in several African countries. It was founded by Sudanese-born Mo Ibrahim.
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Communications in Chad
Telecommunications in Chad include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
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List of airports in Chad
This is a list of airports in Chad, grouped by type and sorted by location.
Chad, officially known as the Republic of Chad (french: République du Tchad, ar, جمهورية تشاد or ''Jumhūriyyat Tshād''), is a landlocked country in Central ...
N'Djamena International Airport
N'Djamena International Airport ( ar, مطار انجمينا الدولي; french: Aéroport international de N'Djaména) serves N'Djamena, the capital city of Chad. It is the country's only international airport. The airport is dual use, w ...
.td
.td is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Chad
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Transport in Chad
Transport infrastructure within Chad is generally poor, especially in the north and east of the country. River transport is limited to the south-west corner. As of 2011 Chad had no railways though two lines are planned - from the capital to the ...
Fédération du Scoutisme Tchadien
The Fédération du Scoutisme Tchadien (''Federation of Chadian Scouting''), the national federation of two Scouting organizations in Chad, was founded in 1960, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1974. The coedu ...
University of N'Djamena
The University of N'Djamena ( ar, جامعة انجامينا, french: Université de N'Djamena, UNDT) is the leading institution of higher education in Chad. It was created in 1971 as the University of Chad, and was renamed "University of N'Djam ...
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Demographics of Chad
The people of Chad speak more than 100 different languages and divide themselves into many ethnic groups. However, language and ethnicity are not the same. Moreover, neither element can be tied to a particular physical type.
Although the possessio ...
Permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel
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Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Community of Sahel-Saharan States
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Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS; french: Communauté Économique des États de l'Afrique Centrale, CEEAC; es, Comunidad Económica de los Estados de África Central, CEEAC; pt, Comunidade Económica dos Estados da Áfr ...
Economic Community of Central African States
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS; french: Communauté Économique des États de l'Afrique Centrale, CEEAC; es, Comunidad Económica de los Estados de África Central, CEEAC; pt, Comunidade Económica dos Estados da Áfr ...
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Bank of Central African States
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Zoé's Ark
Zoé's Ark (french: link=no, L'Arche de Zoé) is a French charity organization with the aim of increasing awareness of the crisis in Darfur and providing aid for children affected by the conflict. The organization was brought into the public's aw ...
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