Guéréda

Guéréda () is a town in the

Wadi Fira Region Wadi Fira () is one of the 23 provinces of Chad. Its capital is the town of Biltine. The province corresponds with the former prefecture of Biltine. Geography The province borders Borkou Region, Ennedi-Ouest Region and Ennedi-Est Region to ...

Chad Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...

. It is located at around . About 60% of Guéréda residents are Tama but people also come from up to 60 km around. Guéréda was the site of fighting between the

Chadian army The Chadian National Army (; , ANT) consists of the five Defence and Security Forces listed in Article 185 of the Chadian constitution of 2018, Chadian Constitution that came into effect on 4 May 2018. These are the National Army (including Chadi ...

and the

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(RaFD) in early December 2006. On December 1, eleven people were killed and 82 injured in the fighting. On December 13, the FUC took control of the streets of Guéréda, ending almost twenty years of control by the

Zaghawa Zaghawa may refer to: * Zaghawa people * Zaghawa language Zaghawa is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Zaghawa people of east-central Chad (in the Sahel) and northwestern Sudan (Darfur). The people who speak this language call it Beria, ...

minority. Power dynamics were reversed and FUC rebels organized mass interrogations of civilians who were questioned about their ethnic origins. Zaghawa civilians accused of anti- Tama sentiments were arrested. Seventeen expatriate humanitarian staff are located in Guéréda near the large

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s at

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and Kounoungo, where 30,000

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

ese refugees from the

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are located. The town is served by Guéréda Airport. Wadi Fira Region Populated places in Chad {{Chad-geo-stub