Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa)

Vincent Bolloré's friendship with the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been well documented (AC Vol 48 No 10 L'Avenir c'est Sarko)...

Farnaud found himself out of favour after Nicolas Sarkozy a fierce De Villepin rival won the 2007 elections...

His campaign headquarters in a plush office in the capital was staffed by consultants from Agence Publics a Paris public relations firm which counts French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy among its former clients and Shaviv Consulting which worked for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his re-election in 2015...

The affair gave rise to jokes on social media claiming that French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy would surely also ask for Ivorian citizenship when he visits the country in March...

Nigerian Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was there as were Chinese Ambassador Bian Jianqiang Three Gorges President Wang Lin and Jean-Louis Borloo a minister under French President Nicolas Sarkozy...

One dates the problems back to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy who opened up discussion about an Azawad autonomous region before the overthrow of President Amadou Toumani Touré in 2012 (AC Vol 53 No 7 Rebels and putschists)...

Moroccan sources suggest that even if the King is unhappy with Hollande – missing the sort of relationship he had with Jacques Chirac or even Nicolas Sarkozy – there are limits to how far relations will be allowed to decline...

France has now increased the share of revenue allocated to the aid budget from its financial transactions tax to 15% (from 10% last year and nil under President Nicolas Sarkozy)...

French former President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-12) identified three priority regions for foreign policy: Europe the Middle East and Africa with the sub-Saharan world clearly ranked third...

This is in contrast to the position of former President Nicolas Sarkozy when France was accused of discreetly assisting President Idriss Déby Itno to defeat Zaghawa rebel forces from eastern Chad in 2008 (AC Vol 49 No 7 La Françafrique est morte vive la Françafrique)...