Yet Darfur was an issue for all three main French presidential candidates and President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy is likely to be as tough - at least rhetorically - as Bush or Blair...
African governments are preparing for a tougher relationship with Paris on trade and immigration policy following the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in presidential elections on 6 May...
Vol 48 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
The main rivals so far are Nicolas Sarkozy for the right-wing Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) and Ségolène Royal for the Parti Socialiste (PS) - aka Sarko and Ségo...
Vol 47 No 24 |
- RWANDA
- FRANCE
Yet the Judge is a political figure who intends to stand for parliament in 2007 as a candidate for President Jacques Chirac's Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle (UMP) and is close to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy - and to Sarkozy's rival for the UMP presidential nomination Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin...
On 19 September Bongo said he would seize his opponents' passports to prevent them 'insulting' him from abroad and asked the French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to inform him of press conferences held by Gabonese in Paris...
French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy backs Brown's IFF proposal and the World Bank's efforts to secure a big expansion of IDA its main window for supporting poor countries but is sceptical about more debt relief...
The Minister of the Interior Internal Security and Local Liberty Nicolas Sarkozy is Mayor of Neuilly where working class Franco-Africans empty the dustbins and plutocrat Africans (including it is thought Sassou-Nguesso) have second homes...