Vol 37 No 25 | FRANCEAFRICA Low key in Ouaga 13th December 1996 The Francophone summit was a pale shadow of times past and it achieved little on Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko was detained elsewhere but everybody in Ouagadougou wanted to know what was happening to his country. The Rwandan and Zaïrean delegations had hardly...
Vol 37 No 21 | FRANCEAFRICA Cashiered 18th October 1996 Paris is cutting its unwieldy, mainly conscript, 500,000-strong army, to form a smaller, well equipped regular force. Defence Minister Charles Millon visited Chad and Gabon on 5-8 October...
Vol 37 No 17 | GABONFRANCE Chasse gardée 23rd August 1996 A French judicial investigation into alleged embezzlement by the former chairman of Elf-Aquitaine, Loïk le Floch Prigent (currently in custody for his own protection) is embarassing Paris...
Vol 37 No 16 | FRANCEAFRICA Pré carré revisted 2nd August 1996 Gaullist by belief and pragmatic by nature, Chirac gets nostalgic in Africa When he came to power 14 months ago, President Jacques Chirac promised a new French policy for Africa. This he failed to deliver during his visit to Gabon...