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Vol 50 No 18
11th September 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
11th September 2009

The flag follows the trade

France's giant power and construction companies have vast economic interests in Africa

Vol 50 No 13
26th June 2009

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 Gba...

Vol 50 No 10
15th May 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 lawye...

Vol 50 No 5
6th March 2009

Unfinished business

President Sarkozy faces awkward questions about his stopovers in Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Niamey this month

Vol 50 No 2
23rd January 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
12th December 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.

Vol 49 No 24
28th November 2008

Identifying the problems

France’s Total and Spain’s Repsol YPF oil companies are under pressure to divulge who received more than US$6 million in consultant fees paid to suspected politically connected intermediaries in Libya. The fees are mentioned in a StatoilHydro report (AC V...

Vol 49 No 23
14th November 2008

Espion embarrassant

The leaked diaries of former French intelligence chief Yves Bertrand have enraged and amused the political establishment in Paris, which is already intrigued by the accusations of high-level corruption made by the prosecutors in the ongoing Angolagate tri...

Vol 49 No 18
5th September 2008

The dead bite back

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

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