President Jacques Chirac had refused to see him he told Africa Confidential and advised him in a long and stormy telephone conversation to accept the proposal of the international mediators led by Gabon's President Omar Bongo that he share power with Sassou and serve as titular president for a transitional period...
Vol 38 No 15 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
The triumph of the Parti Socialiste in Gaullist President Jacques Chirac's misjudged snap elections in May-June and the palpable failure of French strategy in Central Africa have precipitated a radical review of policy in Paris...
A warm welcome is still expected from President Jacques Chirac and politicians such as the outgoing parliamentary President Tunis-born Philippe Séguin...
Vol 38 No 12 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
President Jacques Chirac whose office has tried to run a Gaullist African policy is badly weakened by his decision to call elections a year early...
Vol 38 No 11 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
Rabat is willing to open up more to London (though King Hassan II's close relations with President Jacques Chirac dominate Rabat's policy) but harbours suspicions about Labour sympathies with the Polisario Front...
Vol 38 No 10 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
On Zaïre and on other issues Nigeria Sudan and Kenya make common cause with Mobutu's Francophone allies: Gabon's President Omar Bongo; Congo's President Pascal Lissouba Cameroon's President Paul Biya; Côte d'Ivoire's President Henri Konan-Bédié; Chad's President Idriss Déby; Niger's President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara; and the mother of Francophone allies France's President Jacques Chirac...
Vol 38 No 10 |
- GABON
- FRANCE
The affair grew more embarrassing for President Jacques Chirac when it began to seem that Elf paid secret commissions in 1992 via Switzerland for acquiring a distribution network in the former East Germany...
But his successor Jacques Chirac took no special trouble about Mandela's visit in July 1996 to Britain and France...
Historically President Jacques Chirac and former Ambassador to Abidjan Michel Dupuch have been sympathetic to Savimbi and his União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...
None of the foreign presidents invited (including France's Jacques Chirac) turned up perhaps to avoid being photographed in General Eyadéma's embarrassing company...