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  • Vol 49 No 18
  • 05/09/2008

The dead bite back

Rwanda accuses France of involvement in the 1994 genocide; France blames Rwanda; expect more accusations soon

  • Vol 49 No 7
  • 28/03/2008

La Françafrique est morte, vive la Françafrique

It was right in the spirit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's energetic ambivalence on Africa policy that he chose to announce Paris's new military plans for the region on a state visit to South Africa, the continent's economic powerhouse. Sarkozy was ...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Bad marks

Just before President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife, Carla Bruni, set off on their African safari on 27 February to Chad, South Africa and Angola, Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation issued a damning indictment of conditions in France’s former African col...

  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

Taxing times

Two politicians – South Africa’s highly effective Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and France’s forthright Cooperation Minister Jean-Marie Bockel – are adding to the pressure on international institutions to do more to regulate financial abuses, such as tra...

  • Vol 48 No 25
  • 14/12/2007

Pitching camp

Serious divisions emerged in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government over his lavish hosting of Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi.

  • Vol 48 No 25
  • 14/12/2007

Cross patch

Bored with the fractious Euro-African summit in Lisbon on 8-9 December, French President Nicolas Sarkozy used the opportiunity to try to patch up quarrels with Côte d'Ivoire, Rwanda and Angola.

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

Healing the rift

Diplomatic relations between France and Rwanda may be on the mend. Rwanda broke them off in November 2006, after a French judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, issued arrest warrants against nine of President Paul Kagame's senior officials, alleging the...

  • Vol 48 No 16
  • 03/08/2007

Rapture not rupture

President Nicolas Sarkozy is billed as France's first post-colonial head of state but his first state visit to Africa did not presage a rupture with the Françafrique system. In Senegal, President Abdoulaye Wade clapped politely in support of France's sele...

  • Vol 48 No 16
  • 03/08/2007

Winning ways

French and Qatari commercial interests are the clear winners from Presidential wife Cécilia Sarkozy's success in persuading Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi to release five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor bizarrely convicted of delibe...

  • Vol 48 No 15
  • 20/07/2007

JACQUES ET LE JUGE

Police raids on the house of ex-President Jacques Chirac's Africa advisor Michel de Bonnecourse on 9 and 10 July raise the stakes in the investigation into claims by a former Djibouti presidential guard, Mohamed Saleh Alhoumekani, that President Isma&...

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