Jacques Foccart

African governments are worried despite reassurances from Cooperation Minister Jacques Godfrain (a Chirac loyalist) and the presence somewhere in the President's Elysée Palace of Jacques Foccart the octogenarian veteran of French Africa...

Those sympathetic to Déby are led by André Tarallo ex- President of Elf whose allies include ex-Interior Minister Charles Pasqua Jacques Foccart the veteran architect of Gaullist Africa policies and President Omar Bongo of Gabon another friend of Elf...

The Soglo camp was deeply disturbed by Kérékou's meeting in Paris last November with Gaullist éminence grise Jacques Foccart...