Word: ndjamena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between the two sides ebbed last year after President Felix Malloum, a black who seized power in a 1975 coup, appointed a Muslim rebel leader, Hissene Habre, Premier. But last week fierce fighting between 1,000 guerrillas under Habre's command and Malloum's army erupted in Ndjamena, Chad's capital. Malloum's forces were routed, and he sought the protection of the 2,400-member French force garrisoned in Chad since early...
...week's end a shaky cease-fire arranged by the French had taken hold. Malloum was reportedly holed up in a bunker at Ndjamena airport, where French troops were standing guard. At least four French citizens and a pilot for an American oil company had been killed in the fighting. Some 4,000 white residents, including many of the 230 Americans in Chad, hastened to the airport to board evacuation flights...
...President Ngarta Tombalbaye of Chad survived at least seven major assassination attempts. Last week his luck ran out. In a surprise sunrise attack, uniformed soldiers and police, led by General Mbailai Odingar, acting commander of Chad's 4,000-man army, stormed the white-walled presidential palace in Ndjamena, capital of this Central African nation. Tombalbaye's death was announced over national radio, and General Odingar claimed that the armed forces had "exercised their responsibilities before God and the nation." Almost immediately, thousands of brightly swathed men and women poured into the dusty streets of the sun-scorched...
...national pride and identity, Tombalbaye ordered the 4 million citizens of the former French colony to change their foreign first names. City and street names (with the exception of the capital's main thoroughfare, Avenue Charles de Gaulle) were also Africanized. The capital, Fort-Lamy, was renamed Ndjamena, which means roughly "Leave us alone...