Idriss Déby Itno

The rebels and their sponsors in Sudan's National Congress (National Islamic Front) regime in Khartoum had spotted growing dissent within President Idriss Déby Itno's own security forces and feared that outside intervention could strengthen him...

Rassemblement des Forces pour le Changement led by Timane Erdimi who with his twin brother Tom Erdimi was formerly influential in the entourage of their uncle Idriss Déby; their family is from the Bideyat subgroup of the Zaghawa...

Dynastic ambition survives in General Idriss Déby's elder brother the immensely rich Daoussa Déby...

Chad and Sudan have been meddling in each other's politics for 30 years and the semi-nomadic peoples who straddle the border (including President Idriss Déby Itno's Zaghawa) complicate the relationship...

Most of it will come from France whose troops actively supported Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno during the recent fighting in the capital Ndjamena...

French Belgian and South African companies cooperated in supplying armoured vehicles to President Idriss Déby Itno's Presidential Guard according to The Bulletin an English-language weekly published in Brussels...

Chad and Sudan back each other’s rebels and Khartoum has long sought to overthrow President Idriss Déby Itno...

CHAD: The tightrope act of President Idriss Déby Itno is becoming more and more risky with a renewed rebellion along Chad’s eastern border and increasingly tangled international relations especially with France...

Sudanese security elements are understood to have armed the three groups that attacked aiming to overthrow Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno...

President Idriss Déby Itno a master of political survival ditched Taipei for Beijing on 6 August 2006 just when the Taiwanese Premier Su Tseng-chang had been due to visit Chad...

The Chadians who have intervened and provided protection for Bozizé for so long after President Idriss Déby Itno's relations had deteriorated with Patassé are kept at distance...