French President Jacques Chirac intervened directly we hear: the main aim is to stabilise Chadian President Idriss Déby...
Paris might well seek involvement though: its priority isto save Chadian President Idriss Déby...
Did President Idriss Déby swap Algerian Islamists for support for his fellow Zaghawa fighting Sudan's Islamist regime as many in the area believe...
Idriss Déby's ruling Mouvement Patriotique de Salut (MPS) is also now split along factional lines both over Darfur and over Déby's intention to modify the constitution in order to run in 2006 for a third term as president...
This could deliver an unexpected coup for General Idriss Déby whose officials have briefed on alleged links between the GSPC and the Chadian President's old enemies in the Mouvement pour la Justice et la Démocratie au Tchad...
The unrest puts at risk not only the ailing President Idriss Déby but also the flagship transparency project imposed by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on the Doba basin oil development...
One was Adouma Ali Ahmed also Sudanese and a former advisor to Chadian President Idriss Déby...
His latest offence was to form an alliance with Jean-Pierre Bemba leader of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo and a bitter opponent of both Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila and President Idriss Déby of Chad...
President Idriss Déby has sent 100 troops to reinforce the CEMAC peacekeeping force already in Bangui...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
In Chad oil should start flowing from the southern Doba fields in July and the death last September of rebel leader Youssouf Togoïmi after a landmine explosion has removed a source of worry to President Idriss Déby...