"About Chad" Topic

"Chad became independent from France in 1960, and like the other huge countries lying along the Sahel region—Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Sudan—suffered from the north–south divide. The north was poor, many of its people were nomadic, and they were ethnically Arab, Tuareg or Arabicized, and Muslim. The south was more populous, more westernized as a result of colonialism, and the population was black African, following African traditional religions or Christianity rather than Islam. These were mainly settled agricultural people who were better off in both material and educational terms than the nomads of the north. This divide between north and south made the subsequent civil wars easier to understand, though these were greatly complicated by other considerations: struggles between rival contenders for power, the role of Libya, which laid claim to the Aozou Strip in the north, and interventions by France, sometimes urged on by the United States, as well as neighbors such as Nigeria and Zaire…."

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Amicalement
Armand

And there has been the "traditional" tribal, ethic and religious "problems" among the population. Like many in that region.

You are right my friend.

Amicalement
Armand

And it appears nothing is going to change anytime soon … Regardless of how much $$$, assistance, etc., the West sends/wastes in those regions/areas … Sadly …