French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Premier Gordon Brown have brought a new energy...
Vol 48 No 16 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
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...
On 25 July the day after the nurses left Libya with his wife French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew to Tripoli to meet Gadaffi offering help with civil nuclear power from France's Areva and with oil and gas investment from Total...
On a visit to French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 5 July Sassou described the Paris investigation as 'neo-colonial' and 'racist' because 'in France all of the world's leaders have châteaux or palaces whether they are are from the Gulf states Europe or Africa'...
Vol 48 No 15 |
- DJIBOUTI
- FRANCE
However new President Nicolas Sarkozy has signalled his desire to settle the affair by meeting Elizabeth and her son Louis-Alexandre on 19 June...
An ebullient French President Nicolas Sarkozy is airlifting supplies to refugees in Chad...
Vol 48 No 13 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
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...
His appointment follows the earlier confirmation of the Socialist-sympathising and widely respected Jean-Michel Séverino for a further term as head of the Agence Française de Développement a decision made during the final days of Jacques Chirac's presidency but when it was already clear that Nicolas Sarkozy was set to inherit the Elysée Palace...
Even ex-President Jacques Chirac could not deliver the Fund and his hard-nosed successor Nicolas Sarkozy is not expected to try...
Algerians were fascinated and concerned by Nicolas Sarkozy's win in the French presidential poll...
Yet Darfur was an issue for all three main French presidential candidates and President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy is likely to be as tough - at least rhetorically - as Bush or Blair...
