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2 unusual facts about Chadian


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, a product which represents 40% of the country's exportations and in the past years has been even more dominant.

Diffa Arabs

In the 1950s a small number of KanemChadian Arabs moved into the area, but the population remained small.


2004 Chadian coup d'état attempt

The 2004 Chadian coup d'état attempt was an attempted coup d'état against the Chadian President Idriss Déby that was foiled on the night of May 16, 2004.

2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt

The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt was an attempted coup d'état against Chadian President Idriss Déby that was foiled on the night of March 14, 2006.

Adré

Chadian president Idriss Déby accuses Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of trying to "destabilize our country, to drive our people into misery, to create disorder and export the war from Darfur to Chad."

Adre

Battle of Adré, a 2005 battle during the Second Chadian Civil War

Almahalla Tripoli

They defeated the Chadian champions AS Coton Chad 3-2 in the preliminary round, losing the first leg away in N'Djamena 2-0 on January 31, 1999.

Battle of Tigharghar

In the afternoon of 12 March, 2013, during "clean-up" operations in the Ifoghas mountains, an armed confrontation took place between a group of Chadian soldiers and jihadists that resulted in the deaths of one soldier and six Islamists fighters.

Bombing of Libya

1986: Ouadi Doum air raid, a French campaign during the Chadian–Libyan conflict

Chad–Libya relations

Gaddafi attempted alliances with a number of antigovernment rebel leaders in Chad during the 1970s, including Goukouni, Siddick, Acyl Ahmat (a Chadian of Arab descent), and Kamougué, a southerner.

Chadian Armed Forces

The Chadian Armed Forces (Forces Armées Tchadiennes or FAT) were the army of the central government of Chad from 1960 to 1979, under the southern presidents François Tombalbaye and Félix Malloum, until the downfall of the latter in 1979, when the head of the gendarmerie, Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué, assumed command.

Chadian coup of 1975

The Chadian coup of 1975 was in considerable part generated by the growing distrust of the President of Chad, François Tombalbaye, for the army.

Chadian National Union

The Chadian National Union (Union Nationale Tchadienne or UNT) was a radical Muslim political party founded in 1958 in Chad by Issa Dana, Mahamut Outman and Abba Siddick.

Chadian presidential election, 2006

In a meeting in mid March between Chadian opposition leaders, Chadian Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji, and United Nations representatives, Ngarlejy Yorongar, who ran against Déby in 1996 and 2001, but boycotted the 2006 election, presented an 18-point proposal that called for a six-month extension of Déby's presidency to reform the electoral process.

Chadian–Libyan conflict

Gaddafi withdrew official support to the FROLINAT and forced its leader Abba Siddick to move his headquarters from Tripoli to Algiers.

The insurgents split on the issue of Libyan support in October 1976, with a minority leaving the militia and forming the Armed Forces of the North (FAN), led by the anti-Libyan Hissène Habré.

Donald Yamamoto

From April 22–23, 2006, Yamamoto met with current Chadian President Idriss Déby to discuss Chad's dispute with the World Bank over allocation of its petroleum funds and the possibility of a U.S.-led, United Nations-monitored peace keeping force to end the Chadian-Sudanese conflict.

Fidèle Moungar

Moungar's tenure in office was marked by confrontation with the President over the pace for adopting a multiparty political system, a confrontation that a Chadian journalist dates from June, when during a presidential visit to France Idriss Déby noted that Moungar was highly regarded by the French government.

France–Libya relations

In late 1987, there were 1,300 French troops in Chad, primarily defending the Chadian capital N'DJamena from attack, including an air attack using Tupolev Tu-22 strategic bombers; France also gave $90 million in military aid to Chad that year.

Mahamat Hissene

Mahamat Hissene is the current Chadian Communications Minister in the government of Youssouf Saleh Abbas.

Opération Tacaud

On 18 and 19 May, the Chadian 1st Infantry regiment had to rescue Chadian gendarmes surrounded by rebels in Ati.

Paul Salopek

Salopek was detained in Darfur, Sudan by Sudanese government officials on August 6, 2006, along with his Sudanese interpreter Daoud Hari (aka "Suleiman Abakar Moussa") and Chadian driver Abdulraham Anu (aka "Ali"), while on a freelance assignment for National Geographic magazine.


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