Idriss Miskine (15 March 1948 – 7 January 1984) was a
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
ian politician and diplomat under
Presidents Félix Malloum and
Hissène Habré.
Career
Miskine, an ethnic
Hadjarai The Hadjarai are a group of peoples comprising 6.7% of the population of Chad, or more than 150,000 people. The name is an Arabic exonym, literally meaning "hoseof the stones" (i.e. of the mountains). It is used collectively to describe several dist ...
, was the Minister of Transport, Posts, and Telecommunications under President Malloum until joining Habré's opposition
Armed Forces of the North (FAN) movement in 1979. Upon FAN's capture of the capital
N'Djamena in June 1982, Miskine became Foreign Minister. He died in January 1984 shortly before peace talks were set to begin in
Addis Ababa.
Sources
Profile on rulers.org
1948 births
1984 deaths
Chadian diplomats
Transport ministers of Chad
Foreign ministers of Chad
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