Ouara

Ouaddaï Region · Chad

Ouara, Chad
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The ruined former capital of the Ouaddai Sultanate, whose surviving mosque and palace walls of red brick stand amid the eastern scrub. The site preserves the earthen Islamic architecture of a once-powerful Sahelian state.

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