Vol 42 No 15 | FRANCEAFRICA Hunting lobby 27th July 2001 A new generation breaks through in Paris but the money no longer flows freely The last relics of colonialism are at last being swept out of Paris. For decades, French-speaking Africa was regarded as the chasse gardée, the private hunting-ground; now the...
Vol 42 No 14 | FRANCEAFRICA Les jeux sont faits 13th July 2001 Francophone dignitaries are gathered in Ottawa, Canada, and its Québecois sister-city, Hull, for the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie, starting, appropriately enough, on 14 July, Bastille Day. But...
Vol 42 No 10 | FRANCEAFRICA The new foreign legion 18th May 2001 Paris' African veterans are winning support for new plans to intervene in the continent's wars Africa needs peacekeepers more than ever just now. France has abandoned its post-colonial policies in West Africa, and has launched a new kind of military-backed diplomacy. The result...
Vol 42 No 9 | FRANCEAFRICA Recamping out 4th May 2001 Rwanda and Uganda must pay for their military involvement in Congo-Kinshasa by exclusion from the French-led peacekeeping programme, the Renforcement des Capacités Africaines de Maintien de la Paix....
Vol 42 No 7 | UNITED KINGDOMFRANCE Entente partiale 6th April 2001 The latest episode in the convergence of Africa policy between France and Britain - a Whitehall-sponsored conference of officials, academics and journalists from both countries on 2 April...
Vol 42 No 5 | ANGOLAFRANCE Free Falcone 9th March 2001 Luanda and Paris have fallen out over Angolagate (AC Vol 42 No 3). President José Eduardo dos Santos has lamented that the French justice system targeted arms dealer...
Vol 42 No 3 | FRANCEAFRICA Winners and losers in Angolagate 9th February 2001 Politicians, soldiers and corporations are reeling in Luanda and Paris but some wily operators are capitalising on the scandal The political cost of the arms-for-oil scandal is growing fast in Luanda and Paris. It reaches right across the power elite in two countries. In Angola, it has...
Vol 42 No 3 | FRANCEAFRICA How high the summit 9th February 2001 The English-speakers stayed away and the meeting was cosy but bland President Jacques Chirac is growing ambivalent about Africa. A critical observer of Franco-African affairs, the Chairman of the non-governmental organisation Survie, François-Xavier Verschave, has called the Angolagate affair...
Vol 42 No 2 | FRANCEAFRICA Not franc 26th January 2001 The assassination of Congo-Kinshasa's President Laurent-Désiré Kabila played havoc with the running order at Cameroon's Franco-African summit, the 21st since 1973. Underlying the scheduled theme, 'L'Afrique - l'heure...
Vol 41 No 25 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLECONGO-KINSHASAFRANCE End of empire 22nd December 2000 The latest would-be peacemaker for Congo-Kinshasa is the President of neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso.