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- 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&...
- 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.
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