It's in the middle of Africa, however.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad
Chad has a population of 16 million, of which 1.6 million live in the capital and largest city of N'Djamena. With a total area of around 1,300,000 km2 (500,000 sq mi), Chad is the fifth-largest country in Africa and the twentieth largest nation by area in the world.
And not a great place to be.
Chad ranks the 2nd lowest in the Human Development Index, with 0.394 in 2021 placed 190th, and a least developed country facing the effects of being one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world. Most of its inhabitants live in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers.
Chad is listed as a failed state by the Fund for Peace (FFP).
The United Nations' Human Development Index ranks Chad as the seventh poorest country in the world, with 80% of the population living below the poverty line.
Used to be a French colony. Mostly Muslim. It's been through the usual African litany of military coups. Currently run by the son of the previous dictator, whose record was just as bloody as you'd expect. But they really only control the area around the capital. Huge areas of the country are completely lawless. There's a lot of bleedover from the Sudan conflict in the east, where every faction flits back and forth across the Chadian border. The north is run by warlords who fund their militias by trafficking people to the Libyan slave markets.
Shithole country.
Edit: Forgot to mention, the dictator's name is literally Déby.