Vol 65 No 20 | 
            - FRANCE
- AFRICA
	     And yet  some interesting episodes in France's relations with Africa escape mention  such as Jean-Bedel Bokassa's links with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing  and Paris's relations with Rwanda and Burundi...
	 
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	     Karim hired Anne Meaux  head of public relations firm Image-Sept and a veteran of ex-President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's press service  and helped install Maïmouna Sourang Ndir as Senegal's Ambassador in Paris in 2008  seen as more pliable than her predecessor  Doudou Salla Diop...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 3 | 
            - FRANCE
- AFRICA
	      In the gentler days of the late 1970s  President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was laid low by Africa...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     After much debate in France and appeals by leading politicians  including Parti Socialiste leader Lionel Jospin and ex-President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing  to do more to stop the killing  on 2 February Foreign Minister Hervé de Charette called his counterpart Ahmed Attaf to reassure Algiers that relations with France would be based on 'noninterference  a balance of interests and coordination on matters of mutual interest'...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Remembering his predecessor Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's dealings in 1979 with the then Emperor Jean- Bedel Bokassa  Chirac may hesitate before jumping into the C...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Patassé wanted action under a secret defence pact  signed in 1979 during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing but never ratified by parliament...