Sassou consulted his Paris lawyers in September but his friend President Jacques Chirac warned publicly that Paris could not intervene...
Vol 43 No 21 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Originally proposed by France's then Premier Lionel Jospin in 2000 and backed by President Jacques Chirac Diouf defeated Henri Lopes...
Vol 43 No 20 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Falling out with regional heads of state who are close to French President Jacques Chirac such as Burkina's President Blaise Compaoré and Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma may have been a particularly bad move...
Vol 43 No 20 |
- ANGOLA
- FRANCE
Those implicated in the scandal are hoping the end of 'cohabitation' between Gaullist President Jacques Chirac and the Socialist Party will close down the Angolagate investigations as inside information damaging to the Elysée dries up...
Chadian President Idriss Déby is keen to woo back his former backers in Paris and won a stopover by President Jacques Chirac in N'djamena on 31 August on the way to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa...
For that Biya's regime can thank French President Jacques Chirac...
His young wife Chantal Biya adds to his playboy reputation; he enjoys property foreign holidays and hobnobbing with the likes of French President Jacques Chirac...
Crucially Eyadéma has the support of his old friend French President Jacques Chirac who visited Lomé in 1999 on a tour that also took him to Cameroon and Guinea two other states that fall somewhat short of the democratic ideal...
With President Jacques Chirac friend to a string of African strongmen now holding all the reins of power in Paris it is hard to imagine government victories in impending elections in Togo and Cameroon attracting much scrutiny: Yaoundé signalled its implicit contempt for the ballot box by postponing the 23 June legislatives at a few hours' notice saying election materials were not ready...
Like many other UDF members of parliament he broke with party leader François Bayrou to enter President Jacques Chirac's 'big tent' the Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle in the run-up to this month's legislative elections...