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Chad is a multicultural community that has a very interesting lifestyle and history. If you want to learn more about Chad read on! If you are not interested please kindly recycle this paper.
Chad is a very extreme and awesome country because of their living style and how they celebrate things is very interesting. I also think that their geography and history is very amazing.
History
The French first arrived in Chad in 1891, after multiple problems with local leaders, the French fought a warlord named Rabih Zubar Fadlallah. On the 22nd of April 1900 at the Battle of Kousseri the French won and Rabih was killed. Some civilizations and kingdoms rose and fell over the next thousand years.
Upon the independence of Chad in 1960, the Chadians elected François Tombalbaye as president. The policies he created angered the Muslims and many other groups; then the army assassinated him in 1975.
Then, there was a rebel leader, named Hissène Habré, and became president in 1892. His rule was characterized by extreme cruelty against his enemies; and he killed an estimate 40,000 people.
In 1990, army colonel Idress Deby took the power from Habre, who escaped in exile to Senegal. Chadians agreed to make a new constitution and voted in presidential elections in 1996. Deby won the election and planned a re-election in the middle of 2001.
With the French and the U.S.'s help, Chad fought a war against Libya. At risk was the ownership of the Aozou Strip, a oil- and uranium-rich strip of desert on the Chad-Libya border. Libya took away most of its army from the Aozou Strip in 1988 and retreated entirely in 1994 when the International Court of Justice noticed Chad's territorial claim.

Religion/Culture/Living Style
Chad's Independence Day is on August 11th...

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...the processing of raw cotton provides employment for a lot of people.
Chad's most important mineral resource was natron, which is dug up in Lake Chad and is used in the preparation of soap and medicines.
Chad is one of the most poorest countries. Drought, long distances to markets, no harbors or railroads, and political trouble mixed together make a very bad economy. The majority of the Chadians are farmers or fishermen.
Not many people work in mills or manufacture items such as beer, clothes, sugar cubes, and cigarettes.
In Chad, there are only 5 internet hosts. 13,000 telephones and 918,400 cell phones are sold.

Flora and Fauna
Animal and plant life match the three climate zones. In the Saharan neck of the woods, the only flora is in the date-palm orchard of the oases. Palms and acacia trees also grow in the Sahelian region.

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