Lately, the Idris Déby regime has been waging an intermittent proxy war with Sudan.

Chad's president Idriss Déby has an interest in tranquility in north-western C. A. R., due to the proximity to the location of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project.

Bozizé, who has received much support from President Déby, immediately decided to close the C. A. R .- Sudan border ( a decision which he has no capacity at all to enforce ).

The pipeline project has been affected by persistent charges and fears about corruption and the diversion of revenues — ostensibly intended for poverty reduction — towards arms purchases, particularly by the regime of Chadian President Idriss Déby.

In April 1989, Idriss Déby, one of Habré's leading generals and a Zaghawa, defected and fled to Darfur in Sudan, from which he mounted a Zaghawa-supported series of attacks on Habré ( a Gorane ).

Current Chadian president Idriss Déby, revolted and fled to the Sudan, taking with him many Zaghawa and Hadjerai soldiers in 1989.

After Idriss Déby, an army commander who participated in an unsuccessful plot against President Hissène Habré in 1989, fled to Sudan, he and his supporters, known as the April 1 Movement, operated from Sudan with Libyan backing and carried out attacks across the border into Chad.

The Foreign relations of Chad are motivated primarily by the desire for outside investment in Chadian industry and support for Chadian President Idriss Déby.

He remained Prime Minister for one year until President Idriss Déby appointed Moussa Faki to replace him in June 2003.

On 25 November 2006, the city was taken by the Union of Forces for Democracy, a rebel group that seeks to depose president Idriss Déby.

Goukouni returned to Chad on July 30, 2007, along with about twenty other exiled opponents of the regime, for a discussion with Déby regarding the rebellion and how to resolve the situation.

After the rise of Déby to power and the legalization of opposition political parties, he became a member of the Union for Democracy and the Republic, founded in 1992, and was a leading figure in the party, together with Jean Alingué Bawoyeu.

He headed a commission, composed of representatives of the government, political parties, and civil society, that was responsible for preparing for the Sovereign National Conference ; the commission was created by President Déby in November 1992, and its task included the selection of the Conference's delegates.

He was a candidate in the June 1996 presidential election, placing third with 8. 61 % of the vote ; he then backed President Idriss Déby for the second round.

It was speculated that Kebzabo chose to run for President on this occasion because he had been unsuccessful in negotiating with Déby for the post of Prime Minister.

The current president, Idriss Déby and several former prime ministers of Chad are Zaghawa, as well as many other members of the government.

Goukouni met with current Chadian president Idriss Déby on April 17, 2007, in Libreville, Gabon, to discuss ways to end the current civil war.

It is the birthplace of the current President of Chad, Idriss Déby.

In December 1990, with Libyan assistance and no opposition from French troops stationed in Chad, Déby ’ s forces successfully marched on N ’ Djamena.

Chadian president Idriss Déby accuses Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of trying to " destabilize our country, to drive our people into misery, to create disorder and export the war from Darfur to Chad.

** President of Chad Hissène Habré is deposed by the Patriotic Salvation Movement and replaced as president by its leader Idriss Déby.

The African leaders with close ties to France — especially during the Russo – American Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ) — acted more as agents of French business and geopolitical interests, than as the national leaders of sovereign states, such as Omar Bongo ( Gabon ), Félix Houphouët-Boigny ( Côte d ' Ivoire ), Gnassingbé Eyadéma ( Togo ), Denis Sassou-Nguesso ( Republic of the Congo ), Idriss Déby ( Chad ), and Hamani Diori ( Niger ).

Habré ruled Chad from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990 by Idriss Déby.

He said that in turn he wanted to be allowed to return to Chad from exile in the future, and he said that Déby had agreed to that.

After 3 months of provisional government, Déby ’ s Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) approved a national charter on February 28, 1991, with Déby as president.

During the next two years, Déby faced at least two coup attempts.

Talks with political opponents in early 1996 did not go well, but Déby announced his intent to hold presidential elections in June.

Déby ’ s MPS party won 63 of 125 seats in the January 1997 legislative elections.

Déby, in the mid-1990s, gradually restored basic functions of government and entered into agreements with the World Bank and IMF to carry out substantial economic reforms.

Déby won a flawed 63 % first-round victory in May 2001 presidential elections after legislative elections were postponed until spring 2002.

On Friday, February 1, 2008, rebels, an opposition alliance of leaders Mahamat Nouri, a former defense minister, and Timane Erdimi, a nephew of Idriss Déby who was his chief of staff, attacked the Chadian capital of Ndjamena-even surrounding the Presidential Palace.

Although relations with Libya improved with the presidency of Idriss Déby, strains persist.

Chadian-Libyan relations were ameliorated when Libyan-supported Idriss Déby unseated Habré on December 2.

Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

Chadian-Libyan relations were ameliorated when Libyan-supported Idriss Déby unseated Habré on 2 December.

Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

This claim was disputed by at least one foreign policy analyst, who brought up previous remarks made by Ambassador Daoussa Déby, the Chadian president's half-brother, and said, " Déby's words seem to echo Gaddafi's claims that the terrorist group al-Qaeda masterminded the national uprising in Libya.

Contrary to the thinking of 30 to 40 years ago, when all malocclusion was blamed on some unfortunate habit, recent studies show that most tooth irregularity has at least its beginning in hereditary predisposition.

Carnegie was one of more than 50 members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, which has been blamed for the Johnstown Flood that killed 2, 209 people in 1889.

The show has also been blamed for animal cruelty and the murder of a cat with fireworks.

Descartes, for example, has sometimes been blamed for mistreatment of animals due to the fact that he believed only humans have a non-physical mind.

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

The deterioration of the country's transportation and communications networks has been blamed for impeding the distribution of economic inputs and food as well as the transport of crucial exports.

Degradation of farmland due to deforestation has been blamed as a contributing factor in declining crop yields.

It has been blamed for the level of destruction involved in the First and Second World Wars, but it seems rather that Clausewitz ( who did not actually use the term " total war ") had merely foreseen the inevitable development that started with the huge, patriotically motivated armies of the Napoleonic wars.

The judgment of Severus himself is no doubt that which he puts in the mouth of his interlocutor Posthumianus: " I am astonished that one and the same man could have so far differed from himself that in the approved portion of his works he has no equal since the apostles, while in that portion for which he is justly blamed it is proved that no man has committed more unseemly errors.

Afrikaner historiography has emphasized the hardships endured by the frontier farmers which they blamed on British policies of pacifying the Xhosa tribes.

The lack of secondary schooling has been blamed as one of the reasons for a slow exodus of long-term Great Barrier-resident families.

Giscard has always blamed Chirac for his defeat.

Officials blamed American influence, " In this country unfortunately the settlement of American citizens has been too much permitted and encouraged, and thus in the bosom of this community there exists a treacherous foe ... in many parts of the Province the teachers are Americans ....

Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald has blamed Ireland's dire economic state in 2009 on a series of " calamitous " government policy errors.

Eastwood blamed Universal Studios for the film's poor promotion and turned his back on them to make an agreement with Warner Brothers, through Frank Wells, that has lasted to the present day.

But Tristram Hunt argues that Engels has become a convenient scapegoat, too easily blamed for the state crimes of the Soviet Union, Communist Southeast Asia and China.

The horse has been blamed for several serious accidents over the years.

In an interview conducted by Nick Spark, George Nichols, another engineer who was present, stated that Murphy blamed the failure on his assistant after the failed test, saying, " If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will.

It was a 50 / 50 mixture of the n-butyl esters of 2, 4, 5-T and 2, 4-D. Because of TCDD contamination in the 2, 4, 5-T component, it has been blamed for serious illnesses in many veterans and Vietnamese people who were exposed to it.

It has even been said that some people blamed Solon for their troubles.

He was also blamed for having engaged the Slovak secret service ( SIS ) in the abduction of the President ’ s son Michal Kováč, Jr. — wanted on a warrant for a financial crime in Germany — to Hainburg, Austria, in August 1995, but his guilt has not been proven.

Empress Eugénie has also been largely blamed for the fiasco, the implication being that she tried to meddle in affairs of state in order to get over her husband's affairs of the heart.

His distant relationship with his mother was always strained and has been blamed on her ambition to keep power to herself.