N’Garta Tombalbaye
president of Chad
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role in history of Chad
- In Chad: Independence of Chad
…to some of the opposition, N’Garta (François) Tombalbaye, a southern trade union leader, who became the first president of the republic. In March 1961 Tombalbaye achieved a fusion of the PPT with the principal opposition party, the National African Party (PNA), to form a new Union for the Progress of…
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