The report has also annoyed Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno: it claims his troops burned 18 people alive in Equateur Province in 1999...
Vol 51 No 15 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Yet France’s own military mission there provided President Idriss Déby Itno with intelligence to help crush Sudanese-backed rebels advancing on Ndjamena...
Vol 51 No 15 |
- SUDAN
- BRITAIN
Before tentatively restoring relations Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno had called for the African Union to expedite the arrest and trial of Omer on genocide charges...
During Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno’s visit to Khartoum Field Marshal Omer el Beshir announced on 10 February that relations with Ndjamena had been ‘normalised’ and that war had ended...
Massi was arrested in Chad last May supposedly while trying to secure President Idriss Déby Itno's mediation with Bangui...
So yet another peace agreement with Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno in December made sense for it as do the continuing Darfur talks in the long-running Qatar Initiative...
President of the six-nation regional body the Communauté Economique et Monétaire d'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) Bozizé is close to neighbouring Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno...
Vol 50 No 18 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Chad has no full defence treaty but Paris has several times rescued President Idriss Déby's government...
In any case the change in France's African policies has been less radical than Sarkozy promised: French military support for Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno meant simply keeping a French client in power...
The Chadian rebel offensive began straight after the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie had tried to break the stalemate in talks between President Idriss Déby and his civilian opposition on 30 April and after yet another peace deal between Chad and Sudan in Qatar on 3 May...