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The latest episode in the convergence of Africa policy between France and Britain - a Whitehall-sponsored conference of officials, academics and journalists from both countries on 2 April - showed outstanding differences between the two in West and Central Africa. Discussion grew animated when British and French officials were asked if their views on Presidents Charles Taylor's and Blaise Compaoré's support for the Revolutionary United Front had indeed converged....

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Keywords:

Charles Taylor, Blaise Compaoré, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Lionel Jospin, Libyan, Moammar el Gadaffi, Jacques Chirac, Congo-Kinshasa, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, Rwanda, Paul Kagame, Tony Blair, Pré carré, non-ingérence

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