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2 unusual facts about Ouaddaï


Ouaddaï

Ouaddaï highlands, an area in eastern Chad along the border with Sudan

Ouaddai Empire (1635–1912), a kingdom located to the east of Lake Chad


Ethnic groups in Chad

The Arabs of Chad form a relatively homogeneous group, localized in the regions of Chari Baguirmi and Ouaddai, but mostly seminomadic.

Mangalmé riots

The government's harshness helped spread the rebellion from Mangalmé and nearby Batha Prefecture to Ouaddaï and Salamat prefectures.

Rabih az-Zubayr

Using the tactics of the Khartumi, he in the 1880s he carved out a kingdom between the basins of the Nile and the Ubangi, in the country of Kreich and Dar Benda, south of Ouaddai, a region he utterly devastated.


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