Amdjarass or Am-Djarass (Arabic: أم جرس, romanized: Ạảm̊ Jarasuⁿ, lit. 'A mother bell') is the capital city of the province of Ennedi Est in northern Chad.[1] It is also the capital of the second level administrative division, the Amdjarass department. It is the most populous city in the region[1] and the fourth most populous in Saharan (Northern) Chad.
Amdjarass أم جرس | |
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  Amdjarass أم جرس Location in Chad (Ennedi Est (province) highlighted) | |
| Coordinates: 16°3′57″N 22°50′35″E / 16.06583°N 22.84306°E | |
| Country | Chad |
| Province | Ennedi Est (province)[a] |
| Department | Amdjarass |
| Sub-Prefecture | Am-Djarass |
| Elevation | 896 m (2,940 ft) |
| Population (2009 Census) | |
• Total | 20,850 |
The city is presently mapped in OpenStreetMap, but many atlases do not include this city on the map. Despite formerly being an isolated Saharan oasis, its population as of the 2009 census is 20,850,[2] and has grown considerably from just 657 residents in the 1993 census. Since 1990, it has been the hometown of Chad's ruling Déby family.[3] On July 3, 2015, Chadian president Idriss Deby visited Amdjarass. It is the city where he would be buried six years later.[4]
The town has a hotel called the Toumai Hotel and a fortress. There is a boomerang-shaped rock with the town's name at the entrance to the town.[5] As of May 2021, the mayor is Aboud Hachim Bouder.[6]
Declan Walsh of The New York Times has reported that in 2023, during the War in Sudan, the United Arab Emirates set up a base at the airport in Amdjarass, to support the Rapid Support Forces in the war.[7] The UAE has also provided financial support to the Chad military junta,[3] despite officially declaring a neutral stance in the conflict as a Western ally.[3]
Notes
edit- ↑ On 10 August 2018, a new ordinance divided the country into 23 provinces, 107 departments, and 377 communes. The names of the former regions remained the same but were now called provinces.
References
edit- 1 2 "Amdjarass City Guide | Things to Do & Travel Tips". travelpal.ai. Retrieved 2026-04-23.
- ↑ "Chad: Regions, Cities & Urban Localities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2026-04-23.
- 1 2 3 "Will Chad be the next Western ally in Africa to fail?". The Economist. 2023-11-23. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
- ↑ "Idriss Déby: Thousands attend funeral of Chad president". BBC News. 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2026-04-23.
- ↑ "Amdjarass City Guide | Things to Do & Travel Tips". travelpal.ai. Retrieved 2026-04-23.
- ↑ "CHAD • New masters of N'Djamena seek support against rebel threat - 07/05/2021". Africa Intelligence. 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2026-04-23.
- ↑ Walsh, Declan; Koettl, Christoph; Schmitt, Eric (2023-09-29). "Talking Peace in Sudan, the U.A.E. Secretly Fuels the Fight". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- "Amdjarass climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Amdjarass weather averages". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- Primature (2016-02-04). "Visite éclair du PM à Amdjarass". gouvernementdutchad.org (in French). Archived from the original on 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- "Amdjarass la ville du monstre imaginaire ou des monstres itnos". tchadonline.com (in Danish). 2011-07-21. Archived from the original on 2016-02-07. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- Presidence. "Tchad : Le Président Déby en visite privée à Amdjarass pour "quelques jours"". Alwihda Info - Actualités TCHAD, Afrique, International (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-03.