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Vol 46 No 5
4th March 2005

Hannibal's campaign

Moammar el Gadaffi is working hard to build a new oil-friendly image. His son, named Hannibal after the North African general who so nearly conquered the Roman empire, is doing the opposite. Six months ago the police stopped him speeding the wrong way dow...

Vol 44 No 23
21st November 2003

Do not pass go

The gaoling of three senior officials from the Elf oil company is unlikely to be the final act in the drama that has been unfolding since Paris judge Eva Joly launched her investigation into France's pétro-politique. Next for scrutiny are politicia...

Vol 44 No 5
7th March 2003

Jacques is back

France's triumphal return to Africa is marred only slightly by the tricky problems it faces there

Vol 43 No 24
6th December 2002

The view from the Seine

France again shows a surer hand in Africa but old allies shouldn't expect an easy ride

Vol 43 No 21
25th October 2002

Intrigue in Beirut

Senegal's ex-President Abdou Diouf struggled to become Secretary General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) in Beirut on 20 October.

Vol 43 No 20
11th October 2002

Going for Glencore

Swiss-based oil and commodities trader Glencore has become entangled in France's Angolagate scandal. Paris sources say an arrest warrant has been issued for one of the company's leading West African oil traders, Frank Destribas.

Vol 43 No 12
14th June 2002

Ancien régime

France may claim to have invented human rights but it has seen its role as the champion of liberty usurped by American, British and Scandinavian governments and private foundations. Alarmed by the loss of France's traditional influence, the then Socialis...

Vol 43 No 11
31st May 2002

Rightist regime

Africa will be a low priority for the new team at the Elysée and Quai d'Orsay

Vol 43 No 5
8th March 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
25th January 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...

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