Unlike the President of neighbouring Mali Alpha Oumar Konaré who is increasingly outspoken towards France Compaoré has privileged relations with Chirac as with his socialist predecessor the late François Mitterrand...
); President François Mitterrand's governments had for years refused such a concession...
Vol 37 No 17 |
- GABON
- FRANCE
Le Floch had been asked by President François Mitterrand leader of the Parti Socialiste to stop the flow of funds from Gabon to the Gaullists but says he failed because Elf officials jealous of their African connections witheld information from him...
Vol 37 No 16 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
In this second 'Brazzaville Speech' Chirac was keen to distance himself from the speech delivered by the late President François Mitterrand at 1990's Francophone summit in La Baule when his predecessor urged African leaders to adopt democracy...
We hear reports that he has cancer of the prostate: diplomats in Luanda remind us that President François Mitterrand worked on for ten years with that complaint...
In 1990 in his 'African democracy' speech at the Francophone summit at La Baule President François Mitterrand condemned all secret military agreements and said France would not implement them in the relevant countries – CAR Cameroon Chad Comoros Côte d'Ivoire Djibouti and Gabon...
