Our Man in N'Djamena

by Michael Bear · 2009-04-11 11:04:00 UTC
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The update below was sent from a friend working in Chad:

Chad is not so bad. There are decent restaurants in N'Djamena and even a couple of pubs, one with live music and hookers and the other one with french cheese and local daytime alcoholics. Then of course we have two discos also full of hookers, just like Thailand!!

And then we have UN security trying to be incognito, middle aged white guys hanging around with radios on their belt looking for UN staff talking to hookers! It's the usual carousel of hilarity which does the mandate and the purpose organisation such injustice.

On top of it all, one guy from the French Foreign Legion flipped yesterday and shot three guys at a military base and then shot a local Chadian guy, stole his horse and is now galoping across the African savanna with the entire MINURCAT [UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad] military force after him and 36 hours on unable to catch him!  Now that's an anti-hero if ever there was one, I hope he gets away with it. I can totally relate to his reaction, I feel like doing that most days.

[Photo of N'Djamena from www.igloo.org/groundhogday]

Michael Bear
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