Without embarrassment Britain's ex-Premier Tony Blair and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have extolled Gadaffi's transformation into the West's new best friend seller of oil and buyer of nuclear power installations (non-military of course)...
Radicalism abates It was not the policy revolution that President Nicolas Sarkozy had been promising with his calls for a 'rupture' with France's past African policies...
Biya met President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris last year but although Sarkozy has twice been to Africa since his election in May 2007 he has not visited Cameroon - and seems keen to escape the African entanglements that in the recent past have aligned France with various dictators...
Vol 49 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Just before President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife Carla Bruni set off on their African safari on 27 February to Chad South Africa and Angola Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation issued a damning indictment of conditions in France’s former African colonies...
President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes to reform France's crony relations with its former African backyard...
Promoted by hyperactive French President Nicolas Sarkozy Areva is offering two 1 600 MW European pressurised reactors for Eskom immediately and 'possibly ten others' for the Fleet Programme...
This month's special offers World Bank President Robert Zoellick followed closely by United States President George Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy led the procession of Western leaders on their pilgrimages to Africa with gifts in hand in January and February...
’ Meanwhile Bockel narrowed his sights on French President Nicolas Sarkozy who has promised a ‘rupture’ with the bad old ways of Françafrique: the funnelling of oil revenues from dictatorial African states to tax havens in Switzerland Liechtenstein and Monaco...
Vol 49 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has distanced himself from the judge’s findings and a meeting between Kagame and President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Europe-Africa summit in December smoothed things over without resolving them...
The end of a long period of frosty relations with France is expected with a visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy planned in February...