It is getting support from Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno who wants it to to help defend Chad's border against Khartoum's proxy militia the Front Uni pour le Changement et la Démocratie (FUCD)...
Vol 47 No 14 |
- AFRICAN UNION
A Chadian government inquiry accuses him of killing 40 000 people and torturing 200 000 others; the inquiry was overseen by his successor President Idriss Déby Itno himself a long-time Chief of Army Staff to Habré...
Bozizé now wants French air cover to prevent armed groups from Sudan moving through CAR territory which offers a back route to Ndjamena for rebels against Bozizé's key backer Chad's President Idriss Déby (AC Vol 47 No 9)...
President Idriss Déby Itno has won the first round with French help by routing the rebel invasion of 9-13 April killing hundreds of armed oppositionists in the centre of N'djamena...
He had raised the issue with Idriss Déby he said without indicating his or Déby's position...
Since 2003 Paris has both backed President Idriss Déby and tried to prevent its allies discussing Chad...
Meanwhile President Idriss Déby Itno clings to power only by grace of armed men from his Zakawa (Zaghawa) people whose lands straddle the border...
President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir is one of five 'for possible future designation' surprisingly alongside Chadian President Idriss Déby...
Vol 47 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
African civil society organisations (AC Vol 46 No 23) warmly approve the extradition which has been cleared by Chad's President Idriss Déby a senior security official in the Habré regime...
France also backed Habré one reason for its coolness towards his military chief Colonel Idriss Déby after he overthrew Habré in 1990...
President Idriss Déby blamed Khartoum and closed Chad's consulate...