Mahamat Idris Déby Itno ‘Kaka’

They are likely to do more on Islamic State West African Province and Boko Haram also giving air support to UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic and more problematically to Chad's junta under Mahamat Déby Itno...

France and the African Union changed their stance again condemning Mahamat Déby's succession plan and the military's violent suppression of the protests...

Awkward allianceThe French government's relations with Mahamat Déby will be dominated by its view of Chad's military role in the region...

It will be encouraged by the wave of anti-French sentiment in the region now boosted by Paris's questionable support for Mahamat Déby's succession...