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  • 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&...

  • Vol 48 No 14
  • 06/07/2007

LONG ARMS

On 22 June, a judge in Bordeaux, France, found Gabon's President Omar Bongo guilty of accepting a bribe to free French citizen René Cardona from gaol in 1996.

  • Vol 48 No 13
  • 22/06/2007

SARKO'S TEAM

New Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has won his battle to keep development policy in his Ministry, rather than in the new Immigration Ministry under the right-wing Brice Hortefeux, a long-time acolyte of President Nicolas Sarkozy.

  • Vol 48 No 10
  • 11/05/2007

L'Avenir c'est Sarko

African governments are preparing for a tougher relationship with Paris on trade and immigration policy following the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in presidential elections on 6 May. Perhaps sensing these concerns, Sarkozy spoke optimistically of Franco...

  • Vol 48 No 10
  • 11/05/2007

JUDGES SWOOP

The struggle to shed light on the 1995 death of French Judge Bernard Borrel in Djibouti continues.

  • Vol 48 No 5
  • 02/03/2007

Chirac's last Cannes-Cannes

Franco-African relations face far-reaching change. Within three months, France will have a new president with less time for Africa than any of the recent incumbents.

  • Vol 47 No 24
  • 01/12/2006

La grande rupture

A French judge warms up some old allegations and creates a diplomatic storm

  • Vol 47 No 24
  • 01/12/2006

Retaliatory justice

If Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière obtains the international warrants issued in France, nine people will be targets for arrest if they enter the European Union and other countries . . .

  • Vol 47 No 22
  • 03/11/2006

Ill-judged death

Embarrassing differences are emerging between the French judiciary and President Jacques Chirac's Cellule Africaine over the death in Djibouti in 1995 of French Judge Bernard Borrel. The Cellule Africaine insists that Borrel committed suicide (some of...

  • Vol 47 No 6
  • 17/03/2006

Professional risks

The murder of Robert Feliciaggi in the car park of Corsica's Ajaccio airport on 10 March raises embarrassing questions in Africa and France. Feliciaggi owned casinos, lotteries and betting shops in West Africa, sat in Corsica's Territorial Assembly, wa...

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