Word: chari
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coming in low from the south across the sluggish Chari River, four Mirage fighters peeled off and soared upward to gain height for their final approach to the airport at N'Djamena, the Chadian capital. A few minutes later four Jaguar fighter-bombers repeated the maneuver. By the end of the day the little airport, which normally handles only a dozen civilian airliners a week, had begun to look like a military airbase. Parked next to the jets on the runway apron were half a dozen Transall military freighters and a C-135F aerial refueling plane, together with five...
...week long, residents of N'Djamena (pop. 200,000) could hear the rumble of French Transall aircraft taking off with supplies for the forward garrisons. Combat helicopters swung low over the Chari River, beside the capital, and heavily laden trucks moved out of the French military camp near the airport. The French troops were being equipped with both antiaircraft and antitank missiles so that they could be ready for either an aerial attack or a ground assault. At the same time, U.S. C-141s flew into N'Djamena carrying Jeeps, artillery and other supplies promised by President Reagan...
...Habre, 39, advanced from north and east on the dusty capital of N'Djamena. When the rebels appeared, the armies of President Goukouni Oueddei beat a confused retreat. Stranded, with only a few loyal soldiers left, Goukouni fled ignominiously into exile by boarding a canoe to cross the Chari River into Cameroon. By sundown, the three-year reign of Goukouni was over and Habre, who received support from Egypt and Sudan, was ensconced in the presidential palace...
...Gadaffi's long-range ambition to establish an Islamic sub-Saharan republic stretching from Senegal to the Sudan. Despite diplomatic pressures on Gadaffi to withdraw his troops, however, the Libyan presence in Chad is growing. Last week Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White traveled to Chad by crossing the Chari River in a dugout canoe and reached the war-ravaged capital of N'Djamena. His report...
...residents who fled N'Djamena when fighting broke out between Oueddei supporters and the rival forces of former Defense Minister Hissène Habré do not seem convinced that the danger is past. Each morning, canoes ferry thousands of women across the muddy, slow-moving Chari River from the Cameroon village of Kousseri to market their wares in Chad. Their bundles include huge stocks of emergency food doled out by international relief agencies at their sprawling refugee camp. At sunset, the women return to Cameroon, carrying bundles of clothing recovered from their abandoned homes. Relief workers say that...