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Found 62 articles.
- Vol 51 No 5
- 05/03/2010
Rapprochement and opportunity
The meeting between Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Paul Kagame in Kigali on 26 February enables France to regain a foothold in central Africa and allows Rwanda to normalise diplomatic and commercial relations with Paris. Sarkozy did what was necessary to ...
- Vol 50 No 22
- 06/11/2009
Good judge, bad judge
The lucrative commercial and political networks between France and Africa have survived a remarkable month in the French courts but more embarrassing cases are coming soon. On 27 October, a court in the Palais de Justice in Paris handed down sentences ...
- Vol 50 No 19
- 25/09/2009
A twist in the Thales
French defence company Thales has won US$150 million of business in Angola in partnership with Manuel Vicente, Chairman and Chief Executive of state oil company Sonangol, and Miguel da Costa, Angola's Ambassador in Paris. Angolan law bars the manager ...
- Vol 50 No 18
- 11/09/2009
Remaking an old relationship
Paris tries out new policies on aid and trade in a bid to confront the growing power and influence of Asian economies
- Vol 50 No 18
- 11/09/2009
The flag follows the trade
France's giant power and construction companies have vast economic interests in Africa
- Vol 50 No 13
- 26/06/2009
No funeral for Françafrique
On 16 June, Francophone leaders came to bury El HadjOmar Bongo Ondimba, éminence grise of the occult Françafrique networks, and to keep alive the personalised relations between France and its former colonies. Yet no current leader - Presidents Laurent ...
- Vol 50 No 10
- 15/05/2009
Franc Afrique
Three important African allies of French President Nicolas Sarkozy could find their French assets under scrutiny after Juge d'Instruction Françoise Desset ruled on 6 May that an anti-corruption case against them (see AC 50 Vol 5) should proceed. The la...
- Vol 50 No 5
- 06/03/2009
Unfinished business
President Sarkozy faces awkward questions about his stopovers in Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Niamey this month
- Vol 50 No 2
- 23/01/2009
Credits crunched
Africa advisor at the Elysée Bruno Joubert will be awaiting a ruling by Paris's parquet on the admissibility of a civil case against Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba, Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's Pr...
- Vol 49 No 25
- 12/12/2008
Jungle justice
Lingering court cases such as the murder of Judge Bernard Borrel in Djibouti, the Angolagate arms trial and the arrest of Rwanda’s Rose Kabuye cast a shadow over French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s promised reforms of Africa policy.
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