Vol 55 No 14 | FRANCEAFRICA Who’s Who in French Africa policy 11th July 2014 Responsibility for foreign policy is primarily shared between the President François Hollande and the Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. The President’s Africa Advisor is Hélène le Gal, a career...
Vol 55 No 14 | FRANCEAFRICA Intervention by consent 11th July 2014 France sees itself as a participant in the struggle against jihadism across the Sahel and Sahara but insists it will not take sides in internal conflicts between governments...
Vol 55 No 9 | ANGOLAFRANCE Dos Santos turns the page 2nd May 2014 The lavish reception for President José Eduardo dos Santos at the Elysée Palace on 29 April promoted France's growing investments in Africa's third biggest economy and drew a...
Vol 7 (AAC) No 2 | CHINAFRANCEAFRICA Africa is our future 30th November 2013 With conflicting strategies pulling France in different directions, two senators map out a plan for cooperation with China in Africa In a policy paper entitled L’Afrique est Notre Avenir (Africa is Our Future), the Senate sought to lay out France’s Africa policy and respond to China’s growing influence...
Vol 54 No 25 | FRANCEAFRICA More boots on the ground 12th December 2013 After despatching two military missions in 18 months, President Hollande’s whole Africa policy is taking on a new seriousness The loss of two soldiers just days into the Opération Sangaris deployment in Central African Republic reminded French President François Hollande of the human – and political –...
Vol 54 No 22 | NIGERFRANCE Ransom? Moi? 31st October 2013 Delight at the safe release of French hostages Thierry Dol, Marc Féret, Daniel Larribe and Pierre Legrand on 29 October was dampened by suggestions that President François Hollande’s...
Vol 54 No 8 | MALIFRANCE The campaign stretches out 12th April 2013 France commits to a long war just three months after launching its biggest military operation in Africa in 50 years The official version is that France’s Mali operation has achieved all its objectives – the expulsion of jihadist forces from main northern towns and the destruction of several...
Vol 54 No 8 | MALIFRANCE Training regime 12th April 2013 As the military operation in Mali continues, fresh complications arise. Early reports from the European trainers suggest that progress in restoring the discipline and effectiveness of the Malian...
Vol 54 No 2 | SOMALIAFRANCE French Somalia raid ‘was a trap’ 18th January 2013 The raid by French Special Forces on 11 January on the place where Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen was believed to be holding a French intelligence officer...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | FRANCE François Hollande 2nd May 2013 President of France China’s President Xi Jinping welcomed French President François Hollande and his partner, Valérie Trierweiler, to Shanghai on 25 April. On his first official state visit to China, the...