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An Israeli document recently published by the State Archives revealed the story of a Jewish man of Persian descent who had served as a muezzin for several years in N'Djamena in Chad, formerly known as Fort Lamy, before letting on that he was Jewish. The document includes a letter sent by an Israeli diplomat who served in Africa in 1962, and told the story, kept secret until now, of the only Jew in Chad.
This is not the first-ever military takeover in the country, yet Burkina Faso remains one of the poorest countries
Free French forces under General Jacques Leclerc upheld the honor of France during World War II. Here's What You Need to Know: After the humiliating fall of France in June 1940, two impassioned patriots—a general and an infantry captain—refused to accept defeat and determined, against all odds, to exact retribution from the German invaders. The two were Brig. Gen. Charles de Gaulle, an armored warfare visionary of the 1930s who had tried without success to upgrade his country’s defenses, and Captain Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, who had fought Moroccan insurgents and Germans and could not ...