Jacques Foccart

If he fails to dampen growing civil unrest he may go down in history as the last unhappy instrument of the politique des réseaux of the Jacques Foccart-era...

Support among the Gbaka people of Bangui and the south won him 20 per cent of the vote in 1993 when he came third despite the support of the Elysée Palace's late power-broker Jacques Foccart and part of the French right-wing...

While there is a growing consensus on Africa policy between Blair’s Labour Party and Jospin’s Parti Socialiste news of such innovation hasn’t yet persuaded the Elysée’s Africa cellule where would-be successors to Jacques Foccart such as long-time Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire Michel Dupuch insist that Africa policy is best conducted at president-to-president level through ‘Big Men’ and their personal envoys...

Despite the Socialist government' sreforms Maïnassara' schampionsinParisinclude Fernand Wibaux number two to the late Jacques Foccart in President Jacques Chirac's ‘unofficial' Africa policy cell at the Elysée Palace...

Patassé seemed to mean the late Jacques Foccart's ‘networks'...

The decline of the old Francophonie was symbolised this year by the death of the old Gaullist manipulator Jacques Foccart marked by the collapse of Mobutu Sese Seko's regime in what used to be Zaïre and continued at the Francophone summit in Hanoi on 14-16 November...

Lissouba visited Paris on 3-6 September to stay in his sumptuous house in the Rue de Prony (nearby the late Jacques Foccart's home) – and to ask for French help...

Africa' Jacques Foccart's deputy Fernand Wibaux remains in post for now but is sure to retire soon...

Yet whereas the last PS President François Mitterrand tried to maintain his own Jacques Foccart-style network there is even talk now that a major vehicle of Gaullist-style influence the Cooperation Ministry may be restructured...

André Tarallo a veteran of the late Jacques Foccart's politico-financial network in Africa was until April President of Elf-Gabon...