The switch of the central air pivot of the network from Bouar to Ndjamena last year depends very much on good relations with Chad's President Idriss Déby...
Later that week came other regional allies such as Chad' s Idriss Déby and Niger' s embattled military leader President Ibrahim Bare Maïnassara...
Vol 39 No 13 |
- CAMEROON
- CHAD
Southern-based rebels and environmentalists are losing their battles to scupper President Idriss Déby's plans to turn Chad into Africa' s latest oil emirate...
The reconciliation meeting is supposed to wind up before Misab' s mandate expires with the chairman's place at its final session filled by four heads of state designated as peacekeepers by their colleagues - Omar Bongo (Gabon) Idriss Déby (Chad) Blaise Compaoré (Burkina Faso) and Alpha Omar Konaré (Mali)...
There have been rebellious stirrings again enough to send President Idriss Déby scurrying off to Taiwan in search of a reward for recognising China's rival last June...
President Idriss Déby has spent much of the last two years trying to buy off various armed factions while Finance Minister Cherif Daussa Bicharal has kept the government on good terms with the IMF and courted possible privatisation partners for Ndjamena's electricity and water utilities...
The political accords signed in Bangui last January with Presidents Bongo and Idriss Déby present are being implemented...
He also named Algerian Egyptian Eritrean Iranian and Palestinian mujahideen in Sudan and described Chadian Islamist attempts to overthrow President Idriss Déby (a reluctant friend of Khartoum)...
Vol 38 No 15 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Welcoming Chad's President Idriss Déby to Paris in early July Jospin stressed that relations with Africa 'must be adapted to the problems of the times'...