- Vol 54 No 8
- 12th April 2013
France commits to a long war just three months after launching its biggest military operation in Africa in 50 years
- Vol 54 No 8
- 12th April 2013
As the military operation in Mali continues, fresh complications arise. Early reports from the European trainers suggest that progress in restoring the discipline and effectiveness of the Malian army will be slow. The first batch of 2,500 soldiers started...
- Vol 54 No 2
- 18th January 2013
The raid by French Special Forces on 11 January on the place where Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen was believed to be holding a French intelligence officer may have been a trap, according both to sources familiar with the history of his abduction in 20...
- Vol 53 No 20
- 5th October 2012
Cries of disappointment resound from those expecting François Hollande’s election as President to make a decisive break with the clandestine commercial networks between Paris and its African former colonies.
- Vol 53 No 2
- 20th January 2012
Relations between Rwanda and France have received another boost. On 11 January, French judges Nathalie Poux and Marc Trévidic cleared the ruling Front patriotique rwandais (FPR) of shooting down the aeroplane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana...
- Vol 52 No 16
- 5th August 2011
Greeting four Francophone African leaders in Washington on 28 July, President Barack Obama pledged ‘stalwart’ support on economic and security matters, signifying growing US interest in a region with substantial mineral resources. It was the first such me...
- Vol 52 No 3
- 4th February 2011
The Paris Public Prosecutor's office is opening a preliminary
investigation into funds and property held in France by Tunisian
ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, his family and entourage.
Transparency International (TI) France and two other non-gove...
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23rd July 2010
In 2007, a just-elected President Sarkozy promised to remake France’s Africa policies but strategic political and economic interests still prevail
- Vol 51 No 14
- 9th July 2010
A relic of France’s African economic empire, the CFA zone must cope
with the impact of Western Europe’s monetary disarray
- Vol 51 No 14
- 9th July 2010
The initials CFA once stood for the Communauté française d’Afrique, later changing to Communauté financière d’Afrique. The name is a colonial legacy and considerable monetary powers are still reserved to the Banque de France, the French central bank. The ...