In 1996 Chad’s ruler General Idriss Déby Itno also assigned some 2 000 Chadian troops to safeguard Patassé’s security (and his own); in CAR they are known as ‘Ya pas la Temps’ (sic) because they keep on moving...
Another conspicuous absentee from the Paris meeting was President Idriss Déby of Chad who spent 27 November in the King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh Saudi Arabia for an operation on his colon...
Idriss Déby Mali’s Alpha Oumar Konaré Niger’s Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara (all on Comessa’s presidential council) plus Ange-Félix Patassé (Central African Republic) and Issayas Afeworki (Eritrea)...
The switch of the central air pivot of the network from Bouar to Ndjamena last year depends very much on good relations with Chad's President Idriss Déby...
Later that week came other regional allies such as Chad' s Idriss Déby and Niger' s embattled military leader President Ibrahim Bare Maïnassara...
Vol 39 No 13 |
- CAMEROON
- CHAD
Southern-based rebels and environmentalists are losing their battles to scupper President Idriss Déby's plans to turn Chad into Africa' s latest oil emirate...
The reconciliation meeting is supposed to wind up before Misab' s mandate expires with the chairman's place at its final session filled by four heads of state designated as peacekeepers by their colleagues - Omar Bongo (Gabon) Idriss Déby (Chad) Blaise Compaoré (Burkina Faso) and Alpha Omar Konaré (Mali)...
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...