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  • Vol 43 No 5
  • 08/03/2002

The other Tanzanite

France's first military exercise in English-speaking Africa, Tanzanite III on 11-22 February, got top marks in public, while its sponsors carried on bickering about what to 'do' about Africa. The closing fly-over and parachute drop showed that the Souther...

  • Vol 43 No 2
  • 25/01/2002

L'arbitraire

In a watershed vote on 15 January, the French parliament declared 19 March a day of commemoration of the victims of the Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian independence struggles. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, fresh from courting the United States for milit...

  • Vol 42 No 25
  • 21/12/2001

Oil slick

Legal sources in Paris say the long, venomous investigations into oil company Elf-Aquitaine will be buried before May's presidential election. Elf, merged in 1998-9 with Franco-Belgian giant TotalFina, used to be a furtive arm of French policy in Africa.

  • Vol 42 No 15
  • 27/07/2001

Hunting lobby

A new generation breaks through in Paris but the money no longer flows freely

  • Vol 42 No 14
  • 13/07/2001

Les jeux sont faits

Francophone dignitaries are gathered in Ottawa, Canada, and its Québecois sister-city, Hull, for the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie, starting, appropriately enough, on 14 July, Bastille Day. But while 2,600 athletes and artists test their mettle on t...

  • Vol 42 No 10
  • 18/05/2001

The new foreign legion

Paris' African veterans are winning support for new plans to intervene in the continent's wars

  • Vol 42 No 9
  • 04/05/2001

Recamping out

Rwanda and Uganda must pay for their military involvement in Congo-Kinshasa by exclusion from the French-led peacekeeping programme, the Renforcement des Capacités Africaines de Maintien de la Paix. 'Recamp' is meant to promote peacekeeping in Afri...

  • Vol 42 No 7
  • 06/04/2001

Entente partiale

The latest episode in the convergence of Africa policy between France and Britain - a Whitehall-sponsored conference of officials, academics and journalists from both countries on 2 April - showed outstanding differences between the two in West and Centra...

  • Vol 42 No 5
  • 09/03/2001

Free Falcone

Luanda and Paris have fallen out over Angolagate (AC Vol 42 No 3). President José Eduardo dos Santos has lamented that the French justice system targeted arms dealer Pierre Falcone, who had made an 'enormous contribution to preserving democracy and...

  • Vol 42 No 3
  • 09/02/2001

Winners and losers in Angolagate

Politicians, soldiers and corporations are reeling in Luanda and Paris but some wily operators are capitalising on the scandal

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