Idriss Déby Itno

President Idriss Déby Itno has been winning presidential elections since December 1990 and the 25 April poll is likely to prove no exception...

Again it will require a savvy opposition movement to play on Idriss Déby Itno’s and Andry Rajoelina’s vulnerabilities and those of their foreign sponsors to push through change...

Other members are Ping Gbeho Zuma Compaoré Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno and Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete...

On 4 April Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno met China Export-Import Bank Director General Li Yue to discuss the finance for the proposed national railway...

Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno is choosing the same political strategy as Congo-Kinshasa’s President Joseph Kabila: he has opened the country’s doors to numerous development projects financed by China to be reimbursed with natural resource revenues...

Officially Bozizé ordered the air raid; in fact a diplomat confides Chad’s President Idriss Déby came to Bangui to tell Bozizé that he would bomb Birao since he believed that Chadian rebels were fighting alongside the CPJP...

Since January’s pact between Khartoum and Ndjamena Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno is integral to the NCP strategy...

The report has also annoyed Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno: it claims his troops burned 18 people alive in Equateur Province in 1999...

Yet France’s own military mission there provided President Idriss Déby Itno with intelligence to help crush Sudanese-backed rebels advancing on Ndjamena...

Before tentatively restoring relations Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno had called for the African Union to expedite the arrest and trial of Omer on genocide charges...