Idriss Déby Itno

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'...

On Zaïre and on other issues Nigeria Sudan and Kenya make common cause with Mobutu's Francophone allies: Gabon's President Omar Bongo; Congo's President Pascal Lissouba Cameroon's President Paul Biya; Côte d'Ivoire's President Henri Konan-Bédié; Chad's President Idriss Déby; Niger's President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara; and the mother of Francophone allies France's President Jacques Chirac...

Cissé is a World Bank man; as the Bank's country economist for Chad he got to know President Idriss Déby Itno well...

Yet another of Africa's military leaders who has swapped khaki for boubou or danshiki President Idriss Déby Itno has spent the last three months getting domestic politics under control...

Since President Idriss Déby's November order to security forces to 'execute' criminals caught in the act 'We no longer experience the previous levels of violence' he said...

We hear that Presidents Blaise Compaoré (Burkina Faso) Idriss Déby (Chad) and Henri Konan Bédié (Côte d'Ivoire) were told once the attack was underway but Gabon's President Omar Bongo was kept informed from the start...

Idriss Déby; Burkina Faso's Capt...

Once a warlord and now President Idriss Déby is favoured to win partly because the opposition will be split between fourteen rival presidential hopefuls...

Nominees in Ndjamena Idriss Déby aged 46 the sitting President is favourite to win...

It has also polished its African image: on 1 February Presidents Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir Idriss Déby (Chad) and Ange-Félix Patassé (Central African Republic) agreed to form a 'Triangle' for 'security and integrated development' and to strengthen the military on their borders...