Qualla: Ennedi Est (province) https://qualla.com/ennedi-est-province en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/0/k/ennedi-est-province-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ennedi Est (province) https://qualla.com/ennedi-est-province Ennedi Est (province): Introduction https://qualla.com/ennedi-est-province/ Photo credit David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0. Amdjarass has a population of just over 20,000 by the 2009 census, yet its airport has the longest runway in Chad - 3,050 meters of hardened asphalt in the middle of the Sahara. In December 2024, Reuters reported that dozens of UAE flights had been landing there, and a United Nations panel accused the Emirates of using the strip to funnel weapons to the Rapid Support Forces fighting across the border in Sudan. The UAE denied it, calling the cargo humanitarian aid. Fifty kilometers away, the Ouré Cassoni refugee camp held 67,682 people as of May 2025 - almost all women and children of the Zaghawa ethnicity, fleeing the war that airport may be supplying.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/0/k/ennedi-est-province-wp/se0k-ennedi-est-province-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ennedi Est (province): An Arch in the Desert https://qualla.com/ennedi-est-province/ Photo credit David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0. The geography of Ennedi Est is spectacular and mostly unvisited. The province occupies Chad's far northeastern corner, bordering Libya's Kufra District to the north, Sudan's North Darfur to the east. Most of it is Sahara: the Erdi Plateau and the Mourdi Depression in the north, t...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/0/k/ennedi-est-province-wp/se0k-ennedi-est-province-an-arch-in-the-desert.mp3 0:06 2 full Ennedi Est (province): Lines Drawn on Sand https://qualla.com/ennedi-est-province/ Photo credit David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0. The northern strip of Ennedi Est lies within the Aouzou Strip, a band of desert that Libya and Chad fought over for decades before the International Court of Justice awarded it to Chad in 1994. The province itself was only established in its current form on September 4, 2012, whe...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/0/k/ennedi-est-province-wp/se0k-ennedi-est-province-lines-drawn-on-sand.mp3 0:06 3 full Ennedi Est (province): The Camp at Kariari https://qualla.com/ennedi-est-province/ Photo credit David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0. Near Kariari Dam, with its storage capacity of 12 million cubic meters, sits the Ouré Cassoni refugee camp. The UNHCR's May 2025 figures counted 67,682 people in 16,797 households - a population triple that of the province's capital. Over 99 percent are Zaghawa; 92 percent are wo...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/0/k/ennedi-est-province-wp/se0k-ennedi-est-province-the-camp-at-kariari.mp3 0:06 4 full Ennedi Est (province): A Semi-Arid Year https://qualla.com/ennedi-est-province/ Photo credit David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0. The climate here is brutal and variable. January mornings can drop to 6°C. May afternoons climb past 41°C. Summer is warm and stable around 31°C; winter is cool around 10°C. Somewhere between January's chill and May's heat, the window for travel opens and closes. The province's l...

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