Amdjarass (city)

{{for|the department of which this city is the capital|Amdjarass (department)}}

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{{Infobox settlement

|official_name=Amdjarass
أم جرس

|pushpin_map= Chad

|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Chad (Ennedi Est (province) highlighted)

|coordinates={{coord|16|3|57|N|22|50|35|E|display=inline,title}}

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Chad

|subdivision_type1 = Province

|subdivision_type2 = Department

|subdivision_type3 = Sub-Prefecture

|subdivision_type4 =

|subdivision_name1 = Ennedi Est (province){{efn|On {{date|2018-08-10}}, a new ordinance divided the country into 23 provinces, 107 departments, and 377 communes. The names of the former regions remained the same but were now called {{lang|fr|provinces}}.}}

|subdivision_name2 = Amdjarass

|subdivision_name3 = Am-Djarass

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|pushpin_image=Map of Ennedi-Est Region.png

| elevation_m=896

| population_as_of = 2009 Census

| population_total = 20850

}}

Amdjarass or Am-Djarass ({{langx|ar|أم جرس|Ạảm̊ Jarasuⁿ|"A mother bell"}}) is the capital city of the province of Ennedi Est in northern Chad. It is also the capital of the second level administrative division, the Amdjarass department. It is the largest city in the region and the fourth largest in Saharan (Northern) Chad.

The city is presently mapped in OpenStreetMap, but many atlases do not put this city on the map. Despite formerly being an isolated Saharan oasis, its population as of the 2009 census is 20,850, and has grown considerably from just 657 residents in the 1993 census. Since 1990, it has been the home town of Chad's ruling Déby family.{{Cite news|date=2023-11-23 |title=Will Chad be the next Western ally in Africa to fail? |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/11/23/will-chad-be-the-next-western-ally-in-africa-to-fall |access-date=2024-03-15 |work=The Economist}}

On July 3, 2015, Chadian president Idriss Deby visited Amdjarass. It is the city in which he would be buried 6 years later.

The town has a hotel called the Toumai Hotel Amdjarass and a fortress. There is a boomerang-shaped rock with the town's name at the entrance to the town. The mayor is Ismael Miss.

Declan Walsh of The New York Times has reported that in 2023, during the War in Sudan, the United Arab Emirates set up a base at the airport in Amdjarass, to support the Rapid Support Forces in the war.{{Cite news |last=Walsh |first=Declan |last2=Koettl |first2=Christoph |last3=Schmitt |first3=Eric |date=2023-09-29 |title=Talking Peace in Sudan, the U.A.E. Secretly Fuels the Fight |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/world/africa/sudan-war-united-arab-emirates-chad.html |access-date=2023-09-30 |issn=0362-4331}} The UAE has also provided financial support to the Chad military junta, despite officially declaring a neutral stance in the conflict as a Western ally.