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The Patriotic Movement for the Central African Republic signed the accord in the Chadian capital N'Djamena on Wednesday, presidential intelligence minister Henri Wanzet Linguissara told AFP late Thursday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
The government of Chad has insisted the situation in capitol N'Djamena is stable after gunshots were heard near the presidential palace.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
"As the rainy season approaches, we urgently need to relocate new arrivals to the nearest refugee camps," he said in a statement issued in N'Djamena.
From Reuters ● May 22, 2023
Then dozens of wounded young men and women began streaming into the hospital in N’Djamena, he recalled.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023
A contingent of soldiers crossed into Chad earlier this week and have been disarmed said Daoud Yaya Brahim, Chad’s defense minister at a press conference in the capital, N’Djamena, on Wednesday.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
“The people of Chad do not want the French,” said Hallowak Haoua, 29, a street vendor in the Chadian capital, Ndjamena.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
It has had a continuous military presence in Ndjamena since 1986.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2021
"And the French, where are the French?" an army officer bitterly asks, referring to the French counter-terrorism force commanded from Ndjamena, the capital of Chad, only a few hundred kilometres to the north-east.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2014
Khartoum is now on better terms with Ndjamena and Tripoli.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2013
The capital, Fort-Lamy, was renamed Ndjamena, which means roughly "Leave us alone."
From Time Magazine Archive
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