Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa)

This is in contrast to the position of former President Nicolas Sarkozy when France was accused of discreetly assisting President Idriss Déby Itno to defeat Zaghawa rebel forces from eastern Chad in 2008 (AC Vol 49 No 7 La Françafrique est morte vive la Françafrique)...

In February 2010 the then French President Nicolas Sarkozy took a step towards reconciliation when he admitted during a brief visit to Kigali that France had made 'grave errors of judgement'...

The new President's rousing speech about breaking with the past was well received until it turned out that part of it was lifted from French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy's inauguration address of 2007...

Hollande insists that France no longer pays ransoms but his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy was accused by United States sources of paying 56 mn...

That February with the help of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Libya’s Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi he defeated the rebellion led by Mahamat Nouri and Timan Erdimi...

In turn the EPP includes the parties of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy...

Having gone to such lengths last year to differentiate itself from former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s model of Françafrique policy Fabius wanted Hollande’s Parti Socialiste government to make a clear break with that legacy...

Many politicians in Bamako believe that France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy was financing the MNLA as a means to pressure the failing government of President Amadou Toumani Touré...

In the May 2012 elections Hollande defeated President Nicolas Sarkozy in a second-round vote with 51...

While Ouattara was seeing President Hollande (whom unlike his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy he does not regard as a like-minded friend) international human rights groups were voicing serious concern that investigations into Duékoué and other serious abuses by FRCI troops were not taking place...