Despite an improving security situation in Chad since a peace agreement with Sudan in early 2010 and no official travel restrictions against visiting the capital of N’Djamena, the American government still advises greatly against going there due to the threat of kidnapping and terrorism sparked by the upheaval of nearby Libya. The land-locked African country has long been plagued with violence, with many conflicting political parties fighting for power and recurrent attempted coup d’etats making it one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world, with most people there living in poverty as subsistence farmers. It has been deemed a “failed state” by the Fund For Peace, a Washington DC-based non-profit that “works to prevent violent conflict and promote sustainable security.”
