Word: djamena
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...brigade-size guerrilla groups-one led by President Goukouni Oueddei, the other by insurgent Defense Minister Hissène Habré-had reached a virtual stalemate in their listless battle for control of the impoverished, landlocked country of 4.5 million. Fighting mainly over the capital of N'Djamena on the Chari River, the two miniarmies regularly exchanged artillery duels, and then, just as regularly, stopped shooting for lunch, tea and dinner breaks...
...Djamena is finished...
...Chad, the scene was all too familiar. Cannon and machine-gun fire echoed through the streets of N'Djamena, the dusty riverside capital of the north-central African nation. Days of violent combat turned the city, which once had a population of 193,000, into a smoke-shrouded battlefield. By week's end, in spite of two abortive ceasefires, hundreds were dead, many of them civilians caught in the crossfire. Some 600 foreigners, including U.S. Ambassador Donald Norland, and up to 30,000 of Chad's 4.5 million people had fled the war-torn country...