The unrest puts at risk not only the ailing President Idriss Déby but also the flagship transparency project imposed by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on the Doba basin oil development...
One was Adouma Ali Ahmed also Sudanese and a former advisor to Chadian President Idriss Déby...
His latest offence was to form an alliance with Jean-Pierre Bemba leader of the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo and a bitter opponent of both Congo-Kinshasa's President Joseph Kabila and President Idriss Déby of Chad...
President Idriss Déby has sent 100 troops to reinforce the CEMAC peacekeeping force already in Bangui...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
In Chad oil should start flowing from the southern Doba fields in July and the death last September of rebel leader Youssouf Togoïmi after a landmine explosion has removed a source of worry to President Idriss Déby...
Along with Sassou Nguesso and Chadian President Idriss Déby Bongo ignominiously abandoned a defamation suit against French writer François-Xavier Verschave whose book Noir Silence had 'offended' them...
Vol 43 No 24 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
En route to South Africa for the Earth Summit he stopped off in Chad to see President Idriss Déby; old reservations about election rigging were set aside as Chirac promised a new era of bilateral cooperation...
Sassou Chad's President Idriss Déby and Gabon's President Omar Bongo have dropped legal action against François-Xavier Verschaeve whose book Noir Silence called Sassou a dictator and human rights abuser...
Chadian President Idriss Déby is keen to woo back his former backers in Paris and won a stopover by President Jacques Chirac in N'djamena on 31 August on the way to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa...
Yorongar himself was arrested and beaten in May 2001 a few days after the flawed presidential election in which he came second to President Idriss Déby (AC Vol 42 No 12)...