Sassou Chad's President Idriss Déby and Gabon's President Omar Bongo have dropped legal action against François-Xavier Verschaeve whose book Noir Silence called Sassou a dictator and human rights abuser...
Chadian President Idriss Déby is keen to woo back his former backers in Paris and won a stopover by President Jacques Chirac in N'djamena on 31 August on the way to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa...
Yorongar himself was arrested and beaten in May 2001 a few days after the flawed presidential election in which he came second to President Idriss Déby (AC Vol 42 No 12)...
Idriss Déby to CAR's President Ange-Felix Patassé...
President Idriss Déby's arbitrary rule worries regional allies and foreign investors...
Vol 42 No 21 |
- BURKINA FASO
Among others in activists' sights are Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou Nguesso and Chad's Idriss Déby and Hissène Habré...
Hassan Fadoul Kitir a former advisor to President Idriss Déby alleges that the presidency is aware of this traffic in fake currency and has done nothing to stop it...
Presidents Blaise Compaoré (Burkina) and Idriss Déby (Chad) joined them later...
President Idriss Déby sailed through the presidential election in the first round amid loud questions about electoral fraud...
Konaré has asked Burkina's President Blaise Compaoré and Chadian President Idriss Déby to intercede on his behalf - and the first country to ratify the African Union treaty was Mali...