Eid al-Adha

Eid al-Adha, listed as Aïd el-Adha in the holiday decree, recalls Ibrahim’s willingness to obey God and coincides with the Hajj pilgrimage period. It is one of Chad’s principal Muslim public holidays. The religious focus joins prayer with generosity and responsibility toward relatives, neighbours and people facing hardship.

After communal prayer, households able to do so may arrange a sacrifice and distribute meat, while others participate through hospitality, visits and gifts. Practice depends on resources, religious guidance and locality; sacrifice is not a condition for respectful participation. Livestock markets, prayer sites, traffic and sanitation may be subject to temporary local arrangements.

Eid al-Adha belongs to Chad’s nationwide public-holiday calendar. Decree 97-413 distinguishes its original non-paid holidays from four expressly paid holidays: workers on the original non-paid dates receive no statutory lost-time indemnity and the hours may be recovered, while different contracts, collective agreements and public-service rules can provide more favourable treatment. The decree does not automatically substitute Monday when one of these non-paid dates falls on Sunday; any additional closure requires its own official decision.