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• N'Djamena
  N'Djamena

  noun

  a city in and the capital of Chad, in the southwestern part.
• Ndjamena
  Ndjamena

  noun

  the capital of Chad, in the southwest, at the confluence of the Shari and Logone Rivers: trading centre for livestock. Pop: 866 000 (2005 est)

N'Djamena

American  

[uhn-jah-mey-nah] / ən dʒɑˈmeɪ nɑ /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Chad, in the southwestern part.

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Ndjamena British  

/ əndʒɑːˈmeɪnə /

noun

1. Former name (until 1973): Fort Lamy.  the capital of Chad, in the southwest, at the confluence of the Shari and Logone Rivers: trading centre for livestock. Pop: 866 000 (2005 est)

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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

"It's really a run against the clock because the people are really very much in need," she said by video link from N'Djamena.

From Reuters ● Apr. 25, 2023

Remadji Hoinathy, a researcher with the Institute for Security Studies in N’Djamena, said that Chad and the West are playing a high-stakes “bargaining game.”

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