Idriss Déby Itno

While today Laddé claims he would be happy to go back to Chad and make peace with President Idriss Déby Itno – to whom he has never been a real threat – the FPR has taken root in CAR thanks to its income from theft and a growing popularity among some local Peulh mostly living in the countryside and far from the influence of Peulh elites in Bangui...

In Ndjamena President Idriss Déby Itno has been conferring with French intelligence and other allies to counter any potential problems in Chad’s troubled north while Mali Niger and Algeria are concerned that Libyan gold and renegades will fuel renewed turbulence among Touareg and other communities...

President Idriss Déby Itno has been winning presidential elections since December 1990 and the 25 April poll is likely to prove no exception...

Again it will require a savvy opposition movement to play on Idriss Déby Itno’s and Andry Rajoelina’s vulnerabilities and those of their foreign sponsors to push through change...

Other members are Ping Gbeho Zuma Compaoré Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno and Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete...

On 4 April Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno met China Export-Import Bank Director General Li Yue to discuss the finance for the proposed national railway...

Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno is choosing the same political strategy as Congo-Kinshasa’s President Joseph Kabila: he has opened the country’s doors to numerous development projects financed by China to be reimbursed with natural resource revenues...

Officially Bozizé ordered the air raid; in fact a diplomat confides Chad’s President Idriss Déby came to Bangui to tell Bozizé that he would bomb Birao since he believed that Chadian rebels were fighting alongside the CPJP...

Since January’s pact between Khartoum and Ndjamena Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno is integral to the NCP strategy...

The report has also annoyed Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno: it claims his troops burned 18 people alive in Equateur Province in 1999...