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François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand

Date of Birth: 26 October 1916
Place of Birth: Jarnac, France
Died: 8 January 1996


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Francophone friends

Unlike the President of neighbouring Mali Alpha Oumar Konaré who is increasingly outspoken towards France Compaoré has privileged relations with Chirac as with his socialist predecessor the late François Mitterrand...


Have petrol, will travel

); President François Mitterrand's governments had for years refused such a concession...


Chasse gardée

Le Floch had been asked by President François Mitterrand leader of the Parti Socialiste to stop the flow of funds from Gabon to the Gaullists but says he failed because Elf officials jealous of their African connections witheld information from him...


Pré carré revisted

In this second 'Brazzaville Speech' Chirac was keen to distance himself from the speech delivered by the late President François Mitterrand at 1990's Francophone summit in La Baule when his predecessor urged African leaders to adopt democracy...


The state is sick 

We hear reports that he has cancer of the prostate: diplomats in Luanda remind us that President François Mitterrand worked on for ten years with that complaint...


Angel on a pinhead

In 1990 in his 'African democracy' speech at the Francophone summit at La Baule President François Mitterrand condemned all secret military agreements and said France would not implement them in the relevant countries – CAR Cameroon Chad Comoros Côte d'Ivoire Djibouti and Gabon...


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