Idriss Déby Itno

A summit on ACIRC in South Africa in November was attended by just four presidents (South Africa's Jacob Zuma Chad's Idriss Déby Itno Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete)...

Especially enthusiastic were the two leaders most influential in CAR President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville (whom President François Hollande telephoned directly) and Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno...

By allowing Bozizé a role in the unfolding drama in CAR Biya is signalling his anger about the handling of the conflict by the regional Presidents – Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville and Idriss Déby Itno of Chad...

Nguebla's offence was presumably his constant criticism of Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno whose government has poured $3 mn...

Recently Idriss Déby Itno has spent more time in the international spotlight than at any time in his presidential career...

Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno the 29-year-old presidential son...

Despite a wealth of knowledge about those named no one has been able to work out if the men arrested on 1 May were genuinely conspiring to mount a coup d’état or if President Idriss Déby Itno is carrying out one of his periodic culls of the opposition...

Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno who had a hand in sparking the Séléka revolt but probably did not authorise the coup d’état hosted a summit which was unusual for its frankness and its genuine exchange of opinion among heads of government...

Several sources claimed that Séléka had captured Bangui at the behest of Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno...

It also suffered from the attention of its two major guarantors Congo-B’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Chad’s Idriss Déby diverted respectively by domestic politics and the Malian crisis...

This followed a short visit to Khartoum by Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno whom Khartoum thought it had back on its side...

Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno greatly resented that Bozizé didn’t listen to his ‘grand frère’ (though Déby is younger than him)...