Mounira Mitchala, also known as Sweet Panther, is a Chadian singer, author, performer, composer and actress.
Mounira Mitchala, also known as Sweet Panther, is a Chadian singer, author, performer, composer and actress.
She was born in 1979 and her real name is Mounira Khalil. [1] Mounira Mitchala's father was Dr. Khalil Alio, a one time rector of the University of Chad. [2] Her sister is Chad's first female cartoonist, Salma Khalil Alio. [3]
Mounira Mitchala was born in 1979 in Chad. In the early stages of her career, Mounira Mitchala made minor scene appearances in several Chadian films such as Daratt and Abouna by Mahamat Saleh Haroun. She is known nationally and internationally for her song "Talou Lena" from the album of the same name. Mounira also sings with traditional African rhythms. She uses this platform to address problems in Africa particularly related to her home country Chad. Through her words, she denounces forced marriage, campaigns against the advance of the desert and the genocide of Darfur. She also advocates for an end to the civil war engulfing her country Chad, discrimination against AIDS patients and excision. Mounira has made several remarkable stage appearances alongside Tiken Jah Fakoly and Ismaël Lô. [4] [5]
Saleh Kebzabo is a Chadian politician. He is the President of the National Union for Democracy and Renewal (UNDR) and a Deputy in the National Assembly of Chad. He was designated Prime Minister by president Mahamat Déby on 12 October 2022.
The Government of Chad has been ruled by Mahamat Déby since 20th April 2021.
The Cinema of Chad is small though growing. The first film made in the country appears to have been 1958 John Huston adventure film The Roots of Heaven, filmed when the country was still a part of French Equatorial Africa. Documentary filmmaker Edouard Sailly made a series of shorts in the 1960s depicting daily life in the country. During this period there were a number of cinemas in the country, including in N'Djamena Le Normandie, Le Vogue, the Rio, the Étoile and the Shéherazade, and also the Rex in Sarh, the Logone in Moundou and the Ciné Chachati in Abéché. The film industry suffered severely in the 1970s-80s as Chad became engulfed in a series of civil wars and foreign military interventions; film production stopped, and all the cinemas in Chad closed down. Following the ousting of dictator Hissène Habré by Idriss Déby in 1990 the situation in the country stabilised somewhat, allowing the development of a nascent film industry, most notably with the work of directors Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Issa Serge Coelo and Abakar Chene Massar. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has won awards at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, Venice International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. In January 2011 Le Normandie in N'Djamena, said to now be the only cinema in Chad, re-opened with government support.
Societe des Telecommunications Internationales du Tchad (SotelTchad) is a Chadian telecommunications parastatal providing landline domestic and international telephone service, as well as Internet service. SotelTchad was created in 2000, when domestic phone services were detached from the postal service. The government initially stated its intention to privatize the parastatal through international bidding, but this was put on hold. Company advertisements in late 2000 stated that there were 10,260 telephones and 1,020 Internet subscribers in the country. In 2001, SotelTchad agreed to a partnership with ITXC to provide international phone service via Internet telephony However, by 2005 cellphone users on private networks vastly outnumbered the users of landlines. Privatized in 2010 and sold to the Libyan company Lap Green, the Chadian state subsequently regained control of the company.
General Mahamat Nouri is a Chadian insurgent leader who currently commands the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD). A Muslim from northern Chad, he began his career as a FROLINAT rebel, and when the group's Second Army split in 1976 he sided with his kinsman Hissène Habré. As Habré's associate he obtained in 1978 the first of the many ministerial positions in his career, becoming Interior Minister in a coalition government. When Habré reached the presidency in 1982, Nouri was by his side and played an important role in the regime.
The Télé Tchad is the national broadcaster of the Central African state of Chad. Télé Tchad broadcasts in Arabic and French. It primarily broadcasts news, educational programming, cultural and religious programming, and local sport.
Mass media in Chad is controlled by the government.
Joseph Djimrangar Dadnadji was a Chadian politician who was Prime Minister of Chad in 2013.
Mahamat Abdoul Kadre Oumar, better known as Baba Laddé is a Chadian Fulani rebel opposing the Chadian regime of Idriss Déby. He is sometimes referred to as Abdel Kader Baba Laddé.
Mahamat Zene Cherif is a Chadian diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chad from December 2017 to his resignation in September 2022. before serving as the Minister of Communication for a brief stint and then being re-appointed in May 2021 to once again continue as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He previously served as the Permanent Representative of Chad to the United Nations in New York.
Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Chad in 2022.
Bourkou Louise Kabo was a Chadian politician. She was the first woman to be elected to the National Assembly of Chad.
Fatimé Kimto was a Chadian politician. She was the first woman to serve in a cabinet position in the country's history.
Matibeye Géneviève is a Chadian singer. She represented her country at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
The Agence nationale de sécurité (ANS) is the intelligence agency of the Republic of Chad. It is the successor of the Documentation and Security Directorate (DDS) which was created by the former President Hissène Habré. The current director is Kogri Ahmed, who was appointed May 2013 by President Idriss Déby. While the ANS was not created as a law enforcement agency they were given powers of arrest in 2017.
Hinda Déby Itno is a former Chadian First Lady who served from 2005 until the death of her husband, President Idriss Déby, in April 2021.
Aché Coelo is a Chadian sociologist and film director.
Salma Khalil Alio is a Chadian poet and writer, photographer, caricaturist and graphic artist.
Pamela Badjogo is an Afro-Jazz musician from Gabon and a former member of Les Amazones d'Afrique.
Dahabaya Oumar Souni is a Chadian journalist and media advisor to the President of the Transitional Military Council of Chad. She is the third wife of Mahamat Déby, the interim President of Chad since the death of Idriss Déby on 19 April 2021, and the First Lady of Chad since 2021.
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