Posted on 04/20/2021 12:16:59 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The United States has ordered its non-essential staff in Chad to leave the African country as rebel fighters approached the capital on Sunday after early election results showed President Idriss Deby on course to extend his three-decade rule.
Deby, who seized power in 1990 at the head of an armed rebellion, is a staunch ally of France and the United States in the fight against Islamist militants in the arid Sahel region.
"Due to their growing proximity to N'Djamena and the possibility for violence in the city, non-essential U.S. government employees have been ordered to leave Chad by commercial airline," the U.S. state department said in a statement.
The British government on Saturday urged its citizens to leave because, it said, two armed convoys from the rebel Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) were advancing towards the capital.
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Good news! We’re evaccing you from Chad. Your new duty station will be in Mali.
We remember Hillary/Obama Benghazi failure.
There’s a hanging Chad joke in there somewhere, but some situations can’t be joked about.
All staff needs to leave
As bad as it is in the U.S. right now you couldn’t pay me to leave the country. Although the world is coming/already here.
My sister-in-law and her husband, Peace corps members in Chad, were made into temporary diplomats during a civil war there in the 70’s or early 80’s.
unfortunately for them, their house/office was right in the middle of the territory between two fighting factions. Got air-evached very quickly.
Things are in dire straights, you must leave-oh, and you have to pay for the ticket.
Is Chad, Africa anywhere near Karen, Africa?
Have we abandoned Minneapolis yet?
I thought Chad was next to Stacy.
Deby is dead.
He died a few hours later.....
This didn't age well...
Good name for a hard rock band...The Hanging Chads.
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