Idriss Déby Itno

During Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno’s visit to Khartoum Field Marshal Omer el Beshir announced on 10 February that relations with Ndjamena had been ‘normalised’ and that war had ended...

Massi was arrested in Chad last May supposedly while trying to secure President Idriss Déby Itno's mediation with Bangui...

So yet another peace agreement with Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno in December made sense for it as do the continuing Darfur talks in the long-running Qatar Initiative...

President of the six-nation regional body the Communauté Economique et Monétaire d'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) Bozizé is close to neighbouring Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno...

Chad has no full defence treaty but Paris has several times rescued President Idriss Déby's government...

In any case the change in France's African policies has been less radical than Sarkozy promised: French military support for Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno meant simply keeping a French client in power...

The Chadian rebel offensive began straight after the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie had tried to break the stalemate in talks between President Idriss Déby and his civilian opposition on 30 April and after yet another peace deal between Chad and Sudan in Qatar on 3 May...

As the mandate of the European Union Force (EUFOR) in eastern Chad ran out last month Sudan's rebel Justice and Equality Movement was resettling its fighters in its rear bases in Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno's home area of Am Jaress north-east Chad...

General Idriss Déby's nephew Timan Erdimi chairs the UFR while Mahamat Nouri and Adouma Hassaballah who were previously important have taken a back seat...

Ostensibly restored relations with Chad will collapse: Sudan will try again to overthrow President Idriss Déby Itno...

CHAD: Enemies – at home and abroad The prospects for President Idriss Déby Itno’s survival this year will depend on three main factors: his considerable cunning and grip on his own military forces; some security support from an increasingly reluctant France; and the weakening of Sudan’s Islamist regime in Khartoum by a combination of external sanctions and internal opposition...

Both groups were formed in March after rebels failed to overthrow Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno...