A founder of the 1990s rebel vehicle the Front Islamique arabe de l'Azawad Sidi Mohamed is also reputed to have taken part in the 1958 negotiations on the future of what is now northern Mali serving as a translator for General Charles de Gaulle – a pedigree that his supporters enjoy comparing with with Ag Acherif's rather shorter and less distinguished record...
French troops remain at Libreville’s Camp Charles de Gaulle but why they are there is no longer clear...
He sometimes compares himself to France's late General Charles de Gaulle who won by insisting on being 'the man who says no'...
Vol 48 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
The late President Charles de Gaulle's old Africa chief Jacques Foccart whom Chirac had brought out of retirement died at the same time...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
This measure is one of several that could be put to referenda which Algerian politicians – like their political godfather the late French President General Charles de Gaulle – habitually win...
Vol 44 No 17 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
But the plotters a group of mercenaries led by veteran troublemaker Staff Sergeant Ibrahim Coulibaly ('IB') were arrested not in Abidjan but by French security agents at Paris's Méridien Montparnasse hotel and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport...
Vol 41 No 2 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
When asked about his future role he replies cryptically that like Charles de Gaulle he will be a general until he dies...
It was founded by President Charles de Gaulle during decolonisation in the early 1960s as a political instrument...
Vol 40 No 6 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Sentimental ties have faded especially since the death of Houphouët-Boigny in December 1993 and of some old French agents who remembered the days of General Charles de Gaulle...
Vol 40 No 2 |
- FRANCE
- BRITAIN
It is a reflection of how grave the region’s spiralling conflicts are that Britain and France are now working more closely on Africa policy than at any time since General Charles de Gaulle established a base for the Free French (Resistance) in West Africa in 1940...