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Ndjamena

Capital of Chad, in the southwest of the country, at the confluence of the Chari and Logone rivers, on the Cameroon border; population (2000 est) 639,000. Industries include cotton, textiles, and meat packing. The city's agricultural markets trade in livestock, salt, dates, and grain. The Great Mosque, built 1974–78, is an important landmark. It is a staging point for many pilgrims from West Africa to Mecca.

History

Founded in 1900 by the French as Fort Lamy at the junction of caravan routes on the site of a fishing village, it was used 1903–12 as a military centre against the kingdoms of central Sudan. It was a strategic point during World War II.

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Faya-Largeau Fort Lamy Sahr			Sudan's army said two Chadian planes attacked a region inside the west Darfur district on Thursday u the fourth raid Khartoum says N'Djamena has carried out in Sudan in two months. Sudan lodges UN complaint over Chad aeair raidAE by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon) Mr O'Dea held talks last night in the Chad capital N'Djamena with senior UN officials and local political leaders. TROOPS TOUR; PEACEKEEPERS by The Mirror (London, England) Amnesty said the missing included English teacher Issa Palkoubou who was taken in September from the American Language Centre in N'Djamena by three men in plain clothes and forced into a car. Amnesty condemns Chad human rights abuses by AFP / AFP Global Edition			Myrrhine Vases myrtle Myrtle Beach Myrtle Grove Mysia Myslivecek, Josef Mysore mystery play mystery religion mystery reproductive syndrome Mystic Mystic River Mystic Trumpeter, The mysticism Mytens, Daniel mythological origins of Ireland mythology mythopoeia Mytilene Mytilini Mytishchi Myton, Battle of myxoedema myxomatosis N N'Djamena N'Dour, Youssou n. n.o. Na-Dene NAACP NAAFI Naalehu Naas Nabataean Naberezhniye Chelny Nabis, les Nablus nabob Nabokov, Nikolai Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabu Nabucco Nacala Nacht in Venedig, Eine Nachtanz Nachtigal, Gustav Nachtlager von Granada, Das Nachtmusik Nachtstücke und Arien Nacogdoches			N word N z N z N z N z N! N! N! N&A N&DSG N&E N&G N&J N&MIS N&N N&SP N&U N&V N&W N'-2-quinoxalysulfanilimide N'-Formylkynurenine n'aschi N'chemya N'chemya N'chemya N'chemyah N'chemyah N'chemyah N'cwala N'Dama N'Djamena N'djaména N'djaména N'Djamena, Chad N'Djamena, Chad N'Dour N'Dour, Youssou n'gana n'gana n'gana N'ha-aitk N'ha·a·itk N'habite Pas a l'Adresse Indiquee N'hants N'hants N'hants n'importe N'importe Quoi n's n's n's n's n's n's of Ranvier n's of Ranvier n's of Ranvier n's of Ranvier n't n't N'tan'el N'zerekore

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