Idriss Déby Itno

Its leader Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed Achar Foudeil Taha cannot move around because he is under US sanctions and say sources close to the meetings many of his commanders have defected to the SLA-G19 while he has rowed with Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno because JEM was recruiting from the Chadian army...

Meanwhile Chad is increasing its aid to Darfur rebels aiming to use them to try to weaken the NC regime just as Khartoum has tried to overthrow General Idriss Déby Itno...

Adam Ali Shogar: a Wogi Zaghawa he was part of the coup plot that brought Idriss Déby to power in Chad in 1991...

Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno will call for tougher international action against Sudan’s Islamist regime which backs several armed opposition groups in Chad including Tom and Timan Erdimi’s Rassemblement des Forces Démocratiques...

Presidential Advisor Ghazi Salah el Din Atabani told his fellow medical doctor French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy in Paris that Sudan was at war with Chad and President Idriss Déby Itno would fall...

As host and financier Khartoum demanded that the disparate Chadian rebel groups unite under one political and military structure in their campaign to oust President Idriss Déby Itno...

The other main Chadian rebel group Socle pour le Changement l'Unité et la Démocratie (SCUD) is dominated by Zaghawa of the Bideyat clan and led by President Idriss Déby Itno's cousins the Erdimi twins (Tom and Timan)...

President Idriss Déby Itno smartly set China's interest against those of the World Bank and USA by de-recognising Taiwan the previous holder of Chadian exploration concessions with a down-payment of $30 mn...

Seldom in his 16-year rule has President Idriss Déby Itno inspired much envy from his peers but right now he is riding high...

In Darfur Islamist guerrillas - Sudanese or foreign - might arrive from a westerly direction; some recent attacks on Chadian President Idriss Déby came from the hard-to-monitor meeting point of Chad Sudan and Central African Republic an area Khartoum knows well having used it as a springboard against its Southern insurgents...