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

Gbagbo’s isolation is growing: he refuses we hear to take phone calls from either US President Barack Obama or French President Nicolas Sarkozy...

The chill with Paris that started under Jacques Chirac’s presidency has continued under Nicolas Sarkozy but skilful French diplomacy has averted another flare up...

Last year the anti-corruption lobby Transparency International launched a case to pressure President Nicolas Sarkozy's government to investigate how Sassou Nguesso and Brigadier General Obiang were able to buy property worth millions of euros in France...

These gestures intended by President Nicolas Sarkozy as a salute to former colonies on the 50th anniversary of Independence were widely seen as symbols of post-imperial paternalism...

Vallée sums up his view of the CFA arrangements by claiming that French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ambition is ‘to obtain uranium in Africa and to sell nuclear plants there while in this operation the franc zone no longer protects French businesses nor guarantees the international trade of the African countries...

Joyandet who was forced out after it was revealed he spent 116 500 euros (US$147 475) in state funds on a private jet for a working trip to Martinique was one of President Nicolas Sarkozy‘s more loyal lieutenants...

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner organised President Nicolas Sarkozy’s trip to Kigali in February and then Kagame’s attendance at the France-Afrique summit in Nice...

Paris was quick to congratulate Faure after the army crushed the opposition uprising in 2005 but it is more discreet under President Nicolas Sarkozy: as Africa Confidential went to press it had yet to comment...

The meeting between Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Paul Kagame in Kigali on 26 February enables France to regain a foothold in central Africa and allows Rwanda to normalise diplomatic and commercial relations with Paris...

All three candidates have close ties to France’s political and commercial elite such as President Nicolas Sarkozy and business magnates Martin Bouygues and Vincent Bolloré...