N'DJAMÉNA LETTER: Chad has one of the best-equipped armies in sub-Saharan Africa – but it will not feed its people, writes MARY BOLAND
THE “DEAD Heart of Africa”, as Chad is sometimes called, has begun beating again, fresh blood pumping through it in the form of recently discovered oil. New asphalt roads criss-cross the dusty capital, N’Djaména, where even the locals admit to losing their way on unfamiliar streets as their once-green city cedes more space daily to the government’s infrastructure programme...[continued]
