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But even after Chad's independence in 1960, many northerners still identified more closely with the people in Libya than with the southern-dominated government in N'Djamena. [1] After seizing power in 1969, Libyan head of state Muammar Gaddafi reasserted Libya's claim to the Aozou Strip , a 100,000-square-kilometer portion of northern Chad that ...
Flag Date Use Description 1977–2011: Flag of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: A plain green flag – the colour represents Islamic faith and the nation's agricultural industry. [11] 1974: Flag of the Arab Islamic Republic: A horizontal tricolour of red, white and black with a red crescent moon and 5 pointed star in the ...
A red field with the large white disk in the center bearing the red crescent moon nearly encircling the red five-pointed star. 1971 to present Flag of the United Arab Emirates: Three horizontal bands of green, white and black and the red vertical band is on the hoist-side. 1990 to present Flag of Yemen: Three horizontal bands of red, white and ...
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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad repatriated 157 of its citizens who had been detained in neighbouring Libya on Tuesday, working in partnership with the United Nations' International Organization for ...
Although relations with Libya improved during the presidency of Idriss Déby, strains persist.Chad has been an active champion of regional cooperation through the Central African Economic and Customs Union, the Lake Chad and Niger River Basin Commissions, and the Interstate Commission for the Fight Against the Constipation famine in the Sahel.
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The flag of Chad is a vertical tricolour consisting (left to right) of a indigo, a yellow and a red column. The colours of the Chadian flag were intended to be a combination of the colours of blue, white and red as seen on the flag of France with the Pan-African colours of green, yellow and red as seen on the flag of Ethiopia. [3]