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  N'Djamena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
N'Djamena, «ehn JAHM uh nuh», population 721,000 (2005), is the capital of Chad.
A port on the Chari River, near to its confluence with the Logone River, the city is primarily an administrative center.
N'Djamena was founded as Fort-Lamy by the French in 1900, and named after an army officer who had been killed in a battle a few days before.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ndjamena   (274 words)

  
 N'Djamena, Chad - TheBestLinks.com - Ndjamena, Cereal, Meat, Salt, ...
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N'Djamena, population 213,342 (1993), is the capital of Chad.
N'Djamena was founded as Fort-Lamy by the French in 1900.
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 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Chad to resume mediation in Darfur conflict
Authorities in Ndjamena had accused Sudan of seeking to destabilize Chad by supporting a 3,000-strong armed force near their border.
Even as Ndjamena's decision was announced, Sudanese state radio reported that Chad's consul general in west Sudan had been attacked by armed men as he was travelling to Darfur from Chad.
Ndjamena was also instrumental in getting the rebels to agree to attend African Union-sponsored peace negotiations with the government in Abuja, Nigeria.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MHII-6BK5AB?OpenDocument   (530 words)

  
 United Nations - OCHA IRIN Africa News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NDJAMENA, 6 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - The rhetoric may be flying, with outbursts over "a fool's agreement" and "neo-colonialist and imperialist behaviour,” but most observers believe the oil row between the Chadian government and the World Bank will end in a face-saving compromise.
NDJAMENA, 3 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Chad's fight against AIDS is set to be one of the main victims if a standoff between the government and the World Bank drags on, senior UN officials have warned.
NDJAMENA, 31 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - Chad's parliamentarians have voted to extend their own terms in office by over a year, saying the cash-strapped country cannot hold legislative elections along with the presidential poll later this year as scheduled.
www.irinnews.org /frontpage.asp?SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=Chad   (678 words)

  
 ANB-BIA SUPPLEMENT - ISSUE/EDITION Nr 339 - 01/02/1998
Ndjamena is a small town or a large village - whichever you prefer.
Because of this vegetation, insects abound in Ndjamena.
Ndjamena's citizens are delighted with this, as you can well imagine, especially when they want to sleep in, at the weekends.
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 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » UN refugee chief in Chad as part of Sudan assessment mission
NDJAMENA, Aug 26 (AFP) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, who heads the world body's refugee agency, arrived in Chad's capital on Friday from Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region across the border.
The UNHCR chief was scheduled to hold talks with President Idriss Deby as part of a 10-day assessment devoted to the conflict in Darfur, scene of one of Africa's worst humanitarian crises, which he left on Thursday, and to the after-effects of war in south Sudan.
He made no comment in Ndjamena on talks with local authorities and officials of relief agencies and charities in the east of Chad, but on Tuesday had talks with Sudanese government officials in Khartoum.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACIO-6FMKMK?OpenDocument   (532 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Armed horsemen from Sudan kill 50 in Chad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NDJAMENA, Chad (AFP) — About 50 people were killed in eastern Chad when armed horsemen from neighboring Sudan attacked a village and later clashed with Chadian forces, the government spokesman and army sources said Tuesday.
Although government sources contacted by AFP would not confirm either the number or the identity of the horsemen, their appearance and methods are reminiscent of the Janjaweed.
According to sources in Ndjamena, however, the attackers may have been some of the 3,000 armed Chadian "rebels" that Chad accused Khartoum of massing along the border five months ago.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-09-27-chad-horsemen_x.htm?csp=36   (393 words)

  
 SudanTribune article : Sudan peace talks begin in Chad with new Darfur rebels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NDJAMENA, Dec 14 (AFP) — Talks between Sudan’s government and a rebel group from the strife-wracked western Darfur region began Tuesday in Ndjamena, with Chad mediating.
The NMRD has recently appeared on the scene in Darfur, as a dissident wing of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), which is engaged in peace talks alongside the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) in Abuja, Nigeria.
Ndjamena agreed to host the talks at the request of the Khartoum government.
www.sudantribune.com /article_impr.php3?id_article=7007   (344 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ndjamena (Chad Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
During a period of civil war in the 1960s the town was occupied by Libyan forces.
Its name was changed to Ndjamena in 1973.
The city has schools of administration and veterinary medicine and an international airport.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Ndjamena.html   (209 words)

  
 IRIN PlusNews HIV/AIDS News and information service
NDJAMENA, 3 February (PLUSNEWS) - Chad's fight against AIDS is set to be one of the main victims if a standoff between the government and the World Bank drags on, senior UN officials have warned.
NDJAMENA, 7 March (PLUSNEWS) - It took Denis Baba Tatola a year to tell his wife and neighbours that he was HIV-positive.
NDJAMENA, 4 March (PLUSNEWS) - Chadian men wanting to chat up the girls or boost their credit rating are turning to fake certificates to prove they are not HIV-positive, to improve their chances with potential partners and private moneylenders.
www.plusnews.org /aidsfp.asp?SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=Chad   (292 words)

  
 Sudanese rebel group, Chad reach accord
President Idriss Deby reportedly received the JEM delegation to the Ndjamena parley, which included the movement's chief negotiator Ahmed Tugod, at the Chadian capital, in the presence of representatives of the AU Mediation and Chadian co-mediation, led by Baba Gana Kingibe.
The Ndjamena meeting grew out of discussions on the sidelines of the current session of the Darfur peace talks, which also features the other rebel group (Sudan Liberation Movement/Army) and the Khartoum government.
It also stated the commitment of Chad and JEM to refrain from all actions capable of undermining the Darfur peace process, tasking both parties to abide by all the commitments agreed to at the Ndjamena meeting.
www.panapress.com /freenews.asp?code=eng094157&dte=26/09/2005   (404 words)

  
 French DC-10 Lost Over West Africa
Agence France-Presse, quoting unidentified sources, said that among the passengers was the Chadian Planning Minister, Mahamat Soumaila, bound for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington.
Robert Ayling, deputy chief of mission at the United States Embassy in Ndjamena, said that Bonnie Pugh, wife of the American Ambassador to Chad, Robert L. Pugh, was aboard.
Ayling, reached by telephone in Ndjamena, said information was sketchy but that it appeared that a search for the plane would have to wait until daylight Wednesday.
www.nytimes.com /1989/09/20/international/092089TERROR.html   (382 words)

  
 Ndjamena on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NDJAMENA [Ndjamena], formerly Fort-Lamy, city (1993 urban pop.
that it had sent a delegation to Chad and Sudan in a bid to defuse rapidly escalating tensions between the neighbors marked by Ndjamena's accusation that Khartoum was trying to destabilise its government.
The planes were to make between eight and 10 trips between Ndjamena and Maradi over the weekend, taking in 40 tonnes of grain and 28 tonnes of groundnut oil.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Ndjamena.asp   (426 words)

  
 UNHCR - Fighting in Central African Republic drives thousands into Chad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NDJAMENA, Chad, Feb 18 (UNHCR) – Thousands of refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) have fled northwards to Chad to escape recent fighting between government troops and rebel forces.
The UNHCR assessment team that left the Chadian capital, Ndjamena, on Sunday is now at the two locations, making a rapid assessment of the needs of the refugees and returning Chadians.
Meanwhile UNHCR staff in Ndjamena have met with Chadian authorities and other UN agencies to arrange for assistance to the refugees and to draw up a re–integration plan for the returning Chadians.
www.unhcr.ch /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=3e5270a24&page=news   (445 words)

  
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NDJAMENA, 30 Jul 2004 (IRIN) - A cholera outbreak in and around N'djamena, the capital of Chad, has infected more than 600 people over the past month and 38 have died, an official of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Belgium said on Friday.
She said the main cholera treatment centre at N'djamena's Liberte hospital was saturated and the authorities planned to open a second cholera treatment centre shortly.
Benamane said the first cases of cholera were registered in early July in villages near Lake Chad, to the north of the capital, but the number of new cases mushroomed last week following heavy rains.
irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=42468&SelectRegion=West_Africa&...   (436 words)

  
 BBC - Weather Centre - World Weather - Country Guides - Chad
The southern half of the country, roughly south of 15° N, is part of the Sahel belt, where rain occurs during the period of high sun between May and September.
The table for N'djamena is representative of this wetter Sahel region.
Here sunshine amounts are lower during the rainy season from July to September, averaging six to seven hours a day as compared with nine to ten during the dry season.
www.bbc.co.uk /weather/world/country_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT000130   (194 words)

  
 Small group of Chad mutineers refuses to surrender: official   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But a statement published after a cabinet meeting held on Tuesday said "a residual group (of renegade soldiers) has left the city and taken refuge to the east of Ndjamena".
Ndjamena was calm, according to an AFP correspondent.
An army officer, who asked not to be named, said the mutiny was triggered by measures President Idriss Deby took after paying surprise visits to barracks in February, when he "discovered that the army included non-existent troops whose pay was being pocketed by officers.
www.spacewar.com /2004/040518154907.vn23uywz.html   (314 words)

  
 Chad uprising over as last mutineers surrender
A group of mutinous soldiers holed up east of Chad's capital Ndjamena has surrendered, ending a bloodless rebellion that has simmered in the central African country over the past week, officials said Wednesday.
Ndjamena itself has been calm since Tuesday morning, with no unusual military deployment on the streets after the soldiers and armour posted at strategic spots on Monday returned to their barracks.
After a census, the authorities found that the army's strength was about 19,000 men, instead of the 24,000 put forward in previous tallies.
www.spacewar.com /2004/040519164452.qzdnq9y0.html   (625 words)

  
 NDjamena, Chad, Pictures
N'Djamena, formerly Fort-Lamy, city, southwestern Chad, capital of the country and of Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture, on the Chari River near its confluence with the Logone River.
It is the landlocked nation's chief economic, administrative, and cultural center.
It became the capital of independent Chad in 1960, and took the name N'Djamena in 1973.
www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Chad/N_Djamena_formerly_Fort-Lamy_city_state_capital.html   (209 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Africa | Getting stuck in the mud in Chad
Chadians are very happy their long wait for the rains is over and the streets of Ndjamena are really bustling.
Very few roads are tarred, so the torrential rains are slowly turning Ndjamena into a giant mud bath.
And last week Ndjamena became a ghost town when taxi drivers went on strike.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4697889.stm   (327 words)

  
 News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Many refugees live in dire conditions, afraid to venture outside the camps or return home for fear they will be killed by the Janjawid.
Pro-Khartoum militias have also been accused of attacking towns and villages inside Chad, bringing a sharp response from Ndjamena and a warning from Deby of the possible consequences.
Chaired by Nigerian General Festus Okonkwo, the commission is tasked with "verifying and guaranteeing the implementation of the ceasefire" signed on April 8 between Khartoum and the Darfur rebel groups after talks in Ndjamena.
www.africancrisis.org /NewsView.asp?Rec=3615&Action=V&Sort=D&Page=1   (659 words)

  
 e-Commerce of Ndjamena for business services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The e-Commerce of Ndjamena, one of the city e-Malls worldwide.
This website is for online shopping that represents Ndjamena businesses and serves millions of shoppers on the Web.
An environment where you can find all the local businesses in a given city, providing the convenience of buying online and the peace of mind that you can always find them when you need them for warranty services and much more.
www.ec-ndjamena.com   (91 words)

  
 Operation Mount Hope III
When the execution order was issued on 21 May 1988, an advance team led by CW4 Juergen Stark went to the European Command Headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, and on to Ndjamena, Chad, to await their aircraft.
In Ndjamena the six pilots and four crewmembers stayed in the home of a U.S. Embassy employee, and the maintenance personnel stayed at the U.S. Marine Corps barracks attached to the embassy.
Because of a lack of adequate weather reporting, approximately 45 minutes from Ndjamena, the flight encountered a surprise sandstorm, with sand rising as high as 3,000 feet.
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 SudanTribune article : Sudan’s Darfur JEM rebels to boycott AU summit in Chad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
To boycott the five-way African Union [AU] summit due to be held in Ndjamena on 16 and 17 February 2005.
The boycott decision was taken for the same reasons as those which had forced the talks be transferred from Ndjamena to Abuja in August 2004.
The movement would like to reiterate, however, that it is still morally, politically and legally committed, and will continue to be committed to the Ndjamena and Abuja agreements.
www.sudantribune.com /article_impr.php3?id_article=8026   (307 words)

  
 IRIN PlusNews HIV/AIDS News and information service | Country Profile | Chad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 2002, HIV prevalence among women attending antenatal care clinics ranged from 1.2 percent in Mongo, south-central Chad, to 11.9 percent in Moundou in the far south of the country, close to the border with Central African Republic and Cameroon.
HIV prevalence among women attending antenatal care clinics in the capital N'djamena has been increasing from 2.1 percent in 1995, 4.0 percent in 2000, 5.9 percent in 2001 and 7.5 in 2002.
In Sahr, a border town with the Central African Republic, HIV prevalence rose from 4.1 percent in 1992 to 5.3 percent in 1999, 9.0 percent in 2000 and 8.3 percent in 2002.
www.plusnews.org /AIDS/Chad.asp   (731 words)

  
 Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Habre's FAN troops massacred Southerners in Ndjamena in the midst of ethnic, regional and religious unrest.
The measures included a ban on religious and tribal demonstrations, a ban on carrying weapons, as well as other restrictions on movement and authorization.
This was the first such ban on political organizations since the recognition of opposition parties by the government in 1992.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/chadsthchro.htm   (6464 words)

  
 Darfur crisis spills over border - World - www.theage.com.au
These flights then take off for the capital Ndjamena or other parts of the country - decoys to confuse any coup plotters about his whereabouts.
If, on the other hand, he does not support his tribesmen against what some rights groups - and the US Congress - brand a genocide, he risks being pushed out of office - or worse - by his own closest followers.
Diplomats in Ndjamena say that last May's bloodless coup attempt was largely due to dissatisfaction among senior Zaghawa officers over Mr Deby's inaction on Darfur.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/08/01/1091298575428.html   (544 words)

  
 Current local time in Ndjamena - Chad
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