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Arabic: تشاد Tshād; French: Tchadpronounced: [tʃa(d)]), officially the Republic of Chad (Arabic: جمهورية تشاد Jumhūrīyat Tshād; French: République du Tchad lit. “Republic of the Chad”),
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-“chad” is a landlocked country in ‘Central Africa’-
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(it is bordered by ‘Libya’ to the north, ‘Sudan’ to the east, the ‘Central African Republic’ to the south, ‘Cameroon’ and ‘Nigeria’ to the southwest, and ‘Niger’ to the west)
(It is the 5th largest country in ‘Africa’ in terms of ‘area’)
(‘Chad’ has several regions: a ‘desert zone’ in the north, an arid ‘Sahelian belt’ in the centre and a more fertile ‘Sudanian Savanna’ zone in the south)
(“Lake Chad”, after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in ‘Chad’ and the 2nd-largest in ‘Africa’)
(the capital ‘N’Djamena’ is the largest city)
(Chad’s official languages are ‘Arabic’ and ‘French’)
(‘Chad’ is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups)
(the religions of ‘Chad’ are Islam (at 55%), followed by ‘Christianity’ (at 40%))
(beginning in the ‘7th millennium BC’, human populations moved into the ‘Chadian basin’ in great numbers)
(7000BC?)
(by the end of the ‘1st millennium BC’, a series of states and empires had risen and fallen in Chad’s ‘Sahelian strip’, each focused on controlling the ‘trans-saharan’ trade routes that passed through the ‘region’)
(‘France’ conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of ‘French Equatorial Africa’)
(in 1960, ‘Chad’ obtained independence under the leadership of ‘François Tombalbaye’)
(resentment towards his policies in the ‘Muslim’ north culminated in the eruption of a long-lasting ‘civil war’ in 1965)
(in 1979 the rebels conquered the capital and put an end to the south’s hegemony)
(however, the rebel commanders fought amongst themselves until ‘Hissène Habré’ defeated his rivals)
(he was overthrown in 1990 by his ‘general idriss déby’)
(since 2003 the ‘Darfur’ crisis in ‘Sudan has spilt over the border and destabilised the nation, with hundreds of thousands of ‘Sudanese’ refugees living in and around camps in eastern ‘Chad’)
(unsustainable high birth rates and a lack of agriculture let the country persist in poverty)
(while many political parties are active, power lies firmly in the hands of ‘President Déby’ and his political party, the ‘Patriotic Salvation Movement’)
(‘Chad’ remains plagued by political violence and recurrent attempted ‘coups d’état’)
(‘Chad’ is one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world; most inhabitants live in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers)
(since 2003 ‘crude oil’ has become the country’s primary source of ‘export earnings’, superseding the traditional ‘cotton’ industry
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