Timane Erdimi

Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno will call for tougher international action against Sudan’s Islamist regime which backs several armed opposition groups in Chad including Tom and Timan Erdimi’s Rassemblement des Forces Démocratiques...

His brother Dawsa Déby and half-brother Timane Déby along with Tom and Timane Erdimi (the pillars of his regime until 2004) are close to Minni Arkou Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Army and especially to Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed's JEM...

Last October some of his Garde Républicaine crossed the border and formed the Socle pour le Changement l'Unité et la Démocratie (SCUD) headed by Yaya Dillo Djerou a Zakawa/Bideyat and nephew of Tom and Timane Erdimi the powers behind Déby's regime until 2004's coup attempt...

Several senior Zaghawa were replaced including the brothers Tom and Timane Erdimi respectively Déby's oil advisor and the head of the state cotton company Cotontchad...