So does France with electioneering visits by the Socialist candidate (now President) François Hollande and for ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy former Justice Minister Rachida Dati who is of Moroccan descent...
Sassou’s February visit to Paris was an indication of a cooler more businesslike approach to bilateral relations from President Nicolas Sarkozy...
Nuclear consortium Opposition parties civic groups and trades unions fear that the government’s tender for four nuclear power stations – discussed with French President Nicolas Sarkozy when Zuma visited Paris last year – could follow the pattern of the notorious $6 bn...
‘Deauville Partnership’ (for Egypt Morocco Tunisia and Jordan over the next two years) announced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy when the Group of Eight met in France are only now coming together...
Piracy has been cutting into earnings at Cotonou Benin’s main port where French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s friend Vincent Bolloré had a lucrative operating contract...
Vol 52 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Yet after a grand state visit to France in March 2011 and heavy lobbying by French President Nicolas Sarkozy Zuma switched his line and dropped Gbagbo...
Vol 52 No 16 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
France’s powerful company Bouygues whose Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Martin Bouygues is close to French President Nicolas Sarkozy has won a contract for a third mainland bridge in Abidjan a plan several decades old...
Personally invited by French President Nicolas Sarkozy they made an appearance at May’s Group of Eight summit in Deauville...
Bozizé has strong personal connections to France starting with a friend of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s member of parliament Patrick Balkany as well as with French business...
Many Senegalese were angry when they saw television footage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy introducing Karim to United States President Barack Obama at the Group of Eight meeting in Deauville France on 26-27 May...
