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Beyond putting spotlight on the UAE monarchy's sponsorship and arming of the RSF since the start of the war in April 2023 the SAF's case at the ICJ will also tie in President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno's government which has facilitated the delivery of arms from the UAE to the RSF from an airstrip at Amdjarass in eastern Chad (AC Vol 66 No 5 Hemeti struggles to launch in Nairobi again)...
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When President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ‘Kaka' announced his decision on 28 November the deadline was initially set for late May (Dispatches 4/12/25 After Macron's minister leaves Déby cancels military accord)...
The opposition declared the elections a democratic regression reminiscent of the era of Idriss Déby Itno...
Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ‘Kaka' continues to play into the hands of the United Arab Emirates supporting the Rapid Support Forces led by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' (AC Vol 65 No 15 As the civil war threatens the region the UAE boosts Hemeti's militia)...
The Front pour l'Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad led by Mahamat Mahdi Ali has never recovered from its victory in 2021 which resulted in the killing of Kaka's father then-President Idriss Déby Itno (AC Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...
Mahamat Nour Abdel Kerim a well-known Tama leader from the 2000s joined Idriss Déby after Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi mediated...
He keeps President Mahamat Idriss Déby ‘Kaka' sweet by allowing the Chadian army to cross the border to protect the cattle herds of its generals in return for which Ndjamena neutralises armed CAR groups attempting to find sanctuary in Chad...
The greed of members of the elite has reached a level that Mahamat Kaka's father Idriss Déby Itno would never have tolerated regime-watchers say...
Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ‘Kaka' had his eyes on the parliamentary elections on 29 December which saw a desultory turnout of around 38% after the leader of the opposition Les Transformateurs party Succès Masra had called for a boycott...
Associates of Hissène Habré are back in Chad and still resent France for switching its support to Idriss Déby Itno who seized power on 1 December 1990...
Opponents of Idriss Déby Kaka's father who was killed in 2021 also take a hard line on France which has ignored them for three decades...
President Emmanuel Macron was angry after spending so much capital to endorse the young coup-maker Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ‘Kaka' – only to be stabbed in the back...
Macron was the only western leader to attend the funeral of Mahama Kaka's father Idriss Déby Itno...
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Vol 65 No 25 |
- CHAD
- FRANCE
Chad's decision to end its military cooperation deal with France is another major blow to France which had been actively courting President Mahamat Idriss Déby aka ‘Kaka' to maintain its deployment of around 1 000 troops in the country (AC Vol 65 No 22 From Abu Dhabi with Dirham)...
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His father was one of the closest associates of Hissène Habré and died in a battle against Idriss Déby in 1989...
New Minister of Internal Security General Ali Ahmat Akhabach is Arab/Awlad Rashid and was the leader of the Conseil Démocratique Révolutionnaire that joined Idriss Déby in 2007 after mediation with Libya...
In his book De bédouin à président Mahamat Idriss Déby claims to have forced IYB to repay 13 billion CFA francs (US$21 million) and threatened to punish him further if he repeated the offence...
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Having been forced to abandon their military bases in the Sahel France and the United States are among a group who are actively courting President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ‘Kaka' to set up bases in Chad...
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