Emmanuel Nadingar
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Emmanuel Djelassem Nadingar (born 1951"Chad appoints new prime minister"
African Press Agency, 5 March 2010.
) is a
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ian politician who served as
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from March 2010 to January 2013.


Political career

A native of Bebidja in southwestern Chad,"Tchad: un ex-ministre du Pétrole remplace le Premier ministre démisionnaire"
Agence France-Presse, 5 March 2010 .
Nadingar was born in 1951. He obtained a degree in accounting in
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. Nadingar founded a political party, the National Party for Recovery and Development, during the mid-1990s. He was first appointed to the government"Emmanuel Nadingar"
''Africa Energy Intelligence'', number 423, 6 September 2006.
as Secretary of State for Economic Promotion and Development on 14 August 2001; later, he was appointed as Deputy Secretary-General of the Government in 2003. After entering the government, he merged his party into the ruling
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(MPS). Nadingar was Acting Minister of Defense in 2004. In that post, one of his key concerns was violence in eastern Chad, near the
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ese border. The violence was caused by
Janjaweed The Janjaweed () are an Sudanese Arabs, Arab nomad militia group operating in the Sahel, Sahel region, specifically in Sudan, particularly in Darfur and eastern Chad. They have also been speculated to be active in Yemen. According to the United ...
militia who were assigned by the Sudanese government to fight rebels in
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but began conducting raids into Chadian territory."Sudan-Chad: Janjawid militia in Darfur appears to be out of control"
IRIN, 14 May 2004.
On 9 May 2004, he announced that Chadian forces had clashed with
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raiders on 5 May; according to Nadingar, 60 Janjaweed were killed in the battle, along with one Chadian soldier and six civilians, and the Janjaweed were driven back. On that occasion, Nadingar expressed the Chadian government's frustration with the raids: "We are in such a situation that we fear our patience could have limits." Another major concern for Nadingar at the Defense Ministry was keeping order within the armed forces, which included some dissatisfied elements who reportedly sought the ouster of President
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."Chad: Government continues to negotiate with army mutineers"
IRIN, 19 May 2004.
The problem was illustrated by an incident of military unrest that occurred on 16 May 2004. Nadingar said on 18 May that the government was making progress in negotiations with a group of rebel soldiers who were holding out at the Gassi garrison in eastern
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. He sought to downplay the seriousness of the incident, saying that the soldiers had not wanted to remove President
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from power but were merely dissatisfied over the suspension of their pay. Due to a problem of nonexistent soldiers who were on the army payroll due to corruption, pay had been suspended for two months while the government tried to correct the payroll. According to Nadingar, "the mutineers acknowledge their wrong-doing but fear for their security." Although Nadingar had tried to downplay the situation, Déby alleged on 19 May that the soldiers had intended to assassinate him. Having previously served in an acting capacity, Nadingar was formally appointed as Minister of Defense, Veterans, and War Victims on 23 July 2004. Later, he was Minister of Oil and then Minister-Delegate for Decentralization from 2008 to 2010 under Prime Minister
Youssouf Saleh Abbas Youssouf Saleh Abbas ( '; born ''c''. 1953
. He is a member of the MPS Political Bureau as of 2010.


As Prime Minister

Saleh Abbas submitted his resignation to President Déby on 5 March 2010 and Déby immediately appointed Nadingar to replace him. Nadingar took office on 6 March. Some interpreted Nadingar's appointment in light of the fact that he was native to the same area as
Ngarlejy Yorongar Ngarlejy Koji Yorongar le Moinban is a Chadian politician. He is the Executive Federal Coordinator of the Federation, Action for the Republic (in French: ''Fédération, action pour la république'' or FAR), a radical opposition party, as well a ...
, a key opposition leader. Déby may have hoped that Nadingar would be able to defeat Yorongar in Bebidja during the next parliamentary election. Previously Nadingar had been unable to do so, but he would wield more clout as Prime Minister. On 21 January 2013, Nadingar resigned and Djimrangar Dadnadji was appointed to replace him."Chad PM resigns, successor appointed"
Agence France-Presse, 21 January 2013 .


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