"N'Djamena is finished"
For Chad, the scene was all too familiar. Cannon and machine-gun fire echoed through the streets of N'Djamena, the dusty riverside capital of the north-central African nation. Days of violent combat turned the city, which once had a population of 193,000, into a smoke-shrouded battlefield. By week's end, in spite of two abortive ceasefires, hundreds were dead, many of them civilians caught in the crossfire. Some 600 foreigners, including U.S. Ambassador Donald Norland, and up to 30,000 of Chad's 4.5 million people had fled the war-torn country. In the...
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