The City of Jersey City, Office of Municipal Council and Office of Cultural Affairs were proud to recognize the Frederick Douglass Juneteenth Celebration and The National Juneteenth Observation Foundation on the 157th Anniversary of Juneteenth Freedom Day during the Flag Raising Ceremony on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. Juneteenth also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation […]
The City of Jersey City, Office of the Municipal Council and Office of the Cultural Affairs were proud to recognize the Philippine Consulate General of East Coast, Philippine American Friendship Community (PAFCOM, Inc.) and members of the Filipino community on their 124th Anniversary of Philippine Independence during the Flag Raising Ceremony on Thursday, June 9, 2022. The Philippine Declaration of Independence […]
How do we cope when we don't love each other? Where is the hope and the empathy? (Yeah) How do we judge off the color? The structure was made to make us the enemy 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 3rd Annual Unity ride and Celebration - we will be riding around Jersey City with signs of positivity and unity. […]
H2Ow Far Can You Walk: 5K Walk-a-Thon will take place in Liberty State Park on Saturday, June 25th. This special event aims to raise awareness about the growing water crisis in sub-Saharan Africa and raise funds to reconstruct 250 dried, abandoned, broken water wells in countries such as Chad, Nigeria, and Cameroon. These restored wells […]
Artist & Maker Market is an open-air bazaar featuring locally created fine art and premium hand-crafted goods while connecting artists and artisans with the metro NYC community. Founded in 2015 with only 5 dates and one location, we have grown to over 60 market event dates in 2022 in our Grove St. PATH Plaza location. […]
Artist & Maker Market is an open-air bazaar featuring locally created fine art and premium hand-crafted goods while connecting artists and artisans with the metro NYC community. Founded in 2015 with only 5 dates and one location, we have grown to over 60 market event dates in 2022 in our Grove St. PATH Plaza location. […]
The City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, the Office of Cultural Affairs were honored to commemorate The Chadian Independence today Friday, August 11, 2023. The Chadian Community of New Jersey has directly contributed to the diversity and positive growth of Jersey City in various fields, including education, entrepreneurship, government as well as all aspects of life throughout the United States and abroad. Today the City of Jersey City and members of the Chadian community commemorate this day August 11, 2023 by proudly displaying the flags of the United States and the Republic of Chad together, high above City Hall in recognition of the socially adopted culture and ethnic diversity of our community of Jersey City.
The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the southwest, Nigeria to the to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west. Chad has a population of 16 million, of which 1.6 million live in the capital and largest city N’Djamena.
Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium AD, a series of states and empires had risen and fallen in Chad’s Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region. France conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of French Equatorial Africa. In 1960, Chad obtained independence under the leadership of François Tombalbaye. Resentment towards his policies in the Muslim north culminated in the eruption of a long-lasting civil war in 1965. In 1979 the rebels conquered the capital and put an end to the South’s hegemony. The rebel commanders then fought amongst themselves until Hissène Habré defeated his rivals. The Chadian–Libyan conflict erupted in 1978 by the Libyan invasion which stopped in 1987 with a French military intervention (Operation Épervier). Hissène Habré was overthrown in turn in 1990 by his general Idriss Déby. With French support, a modernization of the Chad National Army was initiated in 1991. From 2003, the Darfur crisis in Sudan spilt over the border and destabilized the nation. While many political parties participated in Chad’s legislature, the National Assembly, power laid firmly in the hands of the Patriotic Salvation Movement during the presidency of Idriss Déby. After President Déby was killed by FACT rebels in April 2021, the Transitional Military Council led by his son Mahamat Déby assumed control of the government and dissolved the Assembly. Chad remains plagued by political violence and recurrent attempted coups d’état.
Today’s flag raising reflects the camaraderie built between the United States and Republic of Chad and our enduring love for freedom, liberty and democracy that today the world is still inspired by.
