It has been a regular concern of Paris's that Russia might find Chadian rebels to support who could carry out a coup in Ndjamena against President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' or simply foment discontent against the French military presence in Chad...
Baba Laddé: rebel with a choice of causes The veteran militia leader Mahamat Abdul Kader Umar – nom de guerre Baba Laddé – is back in Central African Republic with the apparent intention of launching a new armed movement against Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' (AC Vol 52 No 19 Baba Laddé: Robber or Robin Hood...
Surprisingly Burhan and his supporters have been silent on the help the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is providing to the RSF and on Chad's ambiguous stance since President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' gave a green light to military support being transported from Amdjarass to RSF camps in North Darfur at the same time as senior Chadian military officers including members of the Itno family help train and arm Massalit and other Darfuri militias that want to fight against the RSF...
In Chad Mahamat Déby Itno replaced his father President Idriss Déby Itno who was killed at battle in 2021...
When Chad's transitional President Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka' visited Niamey to mediate on 30 July he was pictured meeting both Tiani and Mody but separately...
The first effort at external mediation fell to Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka'...
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The battle lines are complicated by France's military presence in Chad to protect the border with Sudan and push back any new insurgency particularly by Arab militias against President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno's government...
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And on 13 July Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi is planning to host yet another regional summit to which he has invited: South Sudan's Salva Kiir; Chad's Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka'; Central African Republic's Faustin-Archange Touadéra; Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed; and Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki...
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President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' went to Adré after he had travelled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to reassert his neutrality and was rewarded handsomely...
DARFUR CRISIS CHALLENGES PRESIDENT MAHAMAT Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' visited Adré on 17 June with his military comrades and staged a perfect public relations exercise for the visiting reporters delivering food to the refugees and calling for a bigger foreign aid effort...
(Two of the late President Idriss Déby Itno's brothers Timan and Daoussa Déby are related to Jibril through their mother who is a sister to Jibril's mother...
SLM leader Minni Arkou Minnawi travelled to Ndjamena and Amdjarass (the village where Idriss Déby was born) to meet Mahamat Kaka in early June...
This echoes fears voiced in the later years of President Idriss Déby Itno's regime (he was killed in April 2021) when many senior Chadian military officers were monitoring Hemeti's growing power base in Sudan...
Having boycotted a national dialogue launched by President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ('Kaka') and announced the formation of a parallel 'popular' government Masra led anti-government protests that were brutally put down by last October (AC Vol 63 No 22 Massacre threatens transition plan)...
President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 'Kaka' has requested French military support to build a new border post in Goré (Eastern Logone) a city that could be a likely target of the first armed group...
Sudan's war could prove more destabilising for Chad as its president Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno has almost severed ties with Hemeti and is backing Burhan...