During Faure's campaign Havas wrote to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner asking him to make a statement condemning violence during the polls which he duly did three days before polling day asking voters to make the vote a 'peaceful expression of democracy'...
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Condé's network of old French friends includes former foreign minister Bernard Kouchner and the logistics baron Vincent Bolloré who is on good terms with President Emmanuel Macron...
At his 15 December inauguration attended by 13 African heads of state there was no sign of the United States' billionaire philanthropist George Soros whose pro-accountability organisations helped him in his first term nor the British former Prime Minister Tony Blair nor even of his friend and fellow veteran of the Paris events of May 1968 the French politician Bernard Kouchner (AC Vol 52 No 8 George Soros offers some tips)...
They include his old school friend the French former Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner who helped to secure the contract to operate the Port of Conakry for his friend the industrialist Vincent Bolloré...
The names of French former Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Algeria’s Saïd Djinnit head of the UN Office for West Africa have also been put forward...
Vol 52 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
A prominent opponent of any bargaining over President Omer's indictment France's Bernard Kouchner was sacked from the Foreign Ministry by President Nicolas Sarkozy in December...
Vol 51 No 15 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Guéant backed by the lawyer Robert Bourgi who has become a buffer between African leaders and Sarkozy has much more influence on policy than Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner...
Presenting himself as an implacable democrat and reformer Condé may still have friends from the years in Paris when he was a student alongside France’s foreign minister Bernard Kouchner...
Vol 51 No 14 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
He benefited from Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner’s antipathy to Sarkozy’s diplomatic tactics and carved his own Africa policy niche...
Vol 51 No 13 |
- GUINEA
- MINING
Condé a veteran oppositionist is close to France’s Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and has ties to Rio Tinto; one of his strongest supporters is Ismael Diakité an executive with Rio Tinto in Guinea...