Chad has known human habitation since time immemorial. The oldest humanoid skull yet found in Chad is more than one million years old. Sao people lived along the Chari River for thousands of years. Relatively weak chiefdoms were overtaken by he powerful chiefs of what was to become the Kanem-Bornu. These two kingdoms and the kingdom of Ouaddai controlled a good part of what is now Chad. In 1905 the administrative responsibility for Chad were placed under a governor general stationed at Brazzaville in what is now Congo. But Chad joined the French colonies to form the Federation of French Equatorial Africa in 1910; it became a colony in 1920. The French occupied the northern region of Chad in 1914.
In September 1984, the French and the Libyan Governments announced an agreement for the mutual withdrawal of their forces from Chad. …
