Idriss Déby Itno

Jeannou Lacaze Chief of Staff of the French army in the 1980s; he was security advisor to the Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko then to military leaders Gnassingbé Eyadéma in Togo and Idriss Déby in Chad...

President Idriss Déby is deeply worried about ex-Defence Minister Youssouf Togoïmi's rebellion in the Tibesti (AC Vol 41 No 7)...

Next came mounting military pressure on President Idriss Déby from northern rebels under his former Defence Minister Youssouf Togoïmi...

Idriss Déby Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and especially Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos...

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...

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...