Idriss Déby Itno

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...

As the mandate of the European Union Force (EUFOR) in eastern Chad ran out last month Sudan's rebel Justice and Equality Movement was resettling its fighters in its rear bases in Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno's home area of Am Jaress north-east Chad...

General Idriss Déby's nephew Timan Erdimi chairs the UFR while Mahamat Nouri and Adouma Hassaballah who were previously important have taken a back seat...

Ostensibly restored relations with Chad will collapse: Sudan will try again to overthrow President Idriss Déby Itno...

CHAD: Enemies – at home and abroad The prospects for President Idriss Déby Itno’s survival this year will depend on three main factors: his considerable cunning and grip on his own military forces; some security support from an increasingly reluctant France; and the weakening of Sudan’s Islamist regime in Khartoum by a combination of external sanctions and internal opposition...

Both groups were formed in March after rebels failed to overthrow Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno...

The raid is widely portrayed as retaliation for Sudan's support for the Chadian rebels' failed attempt to overthrow President Idriss Déby Itno in February...

Western diplomats say he opposed Khalil's attack; Darfur sources say he called Khalil (his relative though a Zaghawa Kobe) back to Ndjamena when he learnt of his plans but Idriss Déby's brother Timane Déby Sultan of Bahai told Khalil not to go...

Then without much regard for the formal Franco-Chadian military cooperation agreement came France's intervention on the side of President Idriss Déby Itno under attack from rebels backed by Sudan's Islamist regime in 2006 and again last month (AC Vol 49 No 4)...

The rebels and their sponsors in Sudan's National Congress (National Islamic Front) regime in Khartoum had spotted growing dissent within President Idriss Déby Itno's own security forces and feared that outside intervention could strengthen him...

Rassemblement des Forces pour le Changement led by Timane Erdimi who with his twin brother Tom Erdimi was formerly influential in the entourage of their uncle Idriss Déby; their family is from the Bideyat subgroup of the Zaghawa...

Dynastic ambition survives in General Idriss Déby's elder brother the immensely rich Daoussa Déby...

Chad and Sudan have been meddling in each other's politics for 30 years and the semi-nomadic peoples who straddle the border (including President Idriss Déby Itno's Zaghawa) complicate the relationship...