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Chad: Hardline rule, poverty and oil
9 April 2021By AFP
1 min 20Approximate reading time Chad, an oil-rich African nation which holds a presidential election on Sunday, has become a key regional ally of the West in the fight against jihadists. – Landlocked – Stretching from the Sahara desert of the inhospitable mountainous north bordering Libya to the fertile lowlands in the south, Chad is three times bigger than California. Home to around 15 million people and scores of ethnic groups, just over half its population are Muslim with 35 per cent Christian and the rest animist. – Military challenges – Chad faces military challenges on all of its borders.
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