Travel Guide Oum Hadjer

This small town, whose name means «mother of the mountain», once owned ramparts and terraces down to the Batha River; the region was also known to be inhabited by many lions.In the time of colonization, Umm Hadjer seemed cursed, because many officials found death, murdered or ill, from 1947 to 1955, when a puppet was called to stop the death avalanche…The river is, as in Ati, a dangerous barrier for nomadic tribes, mainly Constituées. The wide aisles of the city still echo the noise of the bloody conflicts between sedentary and transhumant. The most deadly of them dates back to 1947 and caused hundreds of deaths; He opposed Missirié to ratanine, sedentary tribes who denounced the damage of their fields by herd herds.Today, the city, located at the crossroads of the roads of Ati, Mongo and Abéché, focuses its activities on trade and travellers from or from those destinations. This important city in the west-east and north-south exchanges is stopping dozens of vehicles every day for the great happiness of fuel sellers and restaurateurs.