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

Booed by the throngs who came to bury and praise Bongo French President Nicolas Sarkozy highlighted his close relationship with Ivorian opposition candidate Alassane Dramane Ouattara and fuelled incumbent President Gbagbo's considerable paranoia about French intentions...

After he was elected President in July 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy boasted that he would ‘rupture’ France’s cosy postcolonial relationships with African presidents...

The death of El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba gives French President Nicolas Sarkozy the clearest chance to break with the opaque Françafrique networks although he has avoided previous opportunities for change...

President Nicolas Sarkozy had talked earlier about abolishing the juges d'instruction but the idea was dropped during pitched battles with lawyers and judges...

Three important African allies of French President Nicolas Sarkozy could find their French assets under scrutiny after Juge d'Instruction Françoise Desset ruled on 6 May that an anti-corruption case against them (see AC 50 Vol 5) should proceed...

Rapidly following Brown's message were greetings from United States President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as more exotic felicitations from Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi and the Chairman of the Russian Federation's Communist party Gennady Zyuganov...

French return Keen to reestablish French military alliances (Paris rejoined NATO's command structure last week) and without the spare naval capacity to go it alone off Somalia President Nicolas Sarkozy has been a driving force behind EU involvement in anti-piracy operations...

Nevertheless French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrote to Bongo saying that ‘as a friend more than as a head of state ’ he was ‘stricken’ by Edith’s passing...

The legacy of Françafrique - the opaque network of commercial and political ties between Paris and its African allies - continues to haunt French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government despite his promise of a 'rupture' with the past...

Led by ExxonMobil and Sterling Energy US and British oil companies explore offshore while Total with help from French President Nicolas Sarkozy bought into the Bemolanga oil-sands project onshore...