There have been rebellious stirrings again enough to send President Idriss Déby scurrying off to Taiwan in search of a reward for recognising China's rival last June...
President Idriss Déby has spent much of the last two years trying to buy off various armed factions while Finance Minister Cherif Daussa Bicharal has kept the government on good terms with the IMF and courted possible privatisation partners for Ndjamena's electricity and water utilities...
The political accords signed in Bangui last January with Presidents Bongo and Idriss Déby present are being implemented...
He also named Algerian Egyptian Eritrean Iranian and Palestinian mujahideen in Sudan and described Chadian Islamist attempts to overthrow President Idriss Déby (a reluctant friend of Khartoum)...
Vol 38 No 15 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
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'...
Vol 38 No 10 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...