Vol 42 No 9 | FRANCEAFRICA Recamping out 4th May 2001 Rwanda and Uganda must pay for their military involvement in Congo-Kinshasa by exclusion from the French-led peacekeeping programme, the Renforcement des Capacités Africaine...
Vol 42 No 7 | UNITED KINGDOMFRANCE Entente partiale 6th April 2001 The latest episode in the convergence of Africa policy between France and Britain - a Whitehall-sponsored conference of officials, academics and journalists from both countries on ...
Vol 42 No 5 | ANGOLAFRANCE Free Falcone 9th March 2001 Luanda and Paris have fallen out over Angolagate (AC Vol 42 No 3). President José Eduardo dos Santos has lamented that the French justice system targeted arms dealer Pierre ...
Vol 42 No 3 | FRANCEAFRICA Winners and losers in Angolagate 9th February 2001 Politicians, soldiers and corporations are reeling in Luanda and Paris but some wily operators are capitalising on the scandal The political cost of the arms-for-oil scandal is growing fast in Luanda and Paris. It reaches right across the power elite in two countries. In Angola, it has put under scrutiny t...
Vol 42 No 3 | FRANCEAFRICA How high the summit 9th February 2001 The English-speakers stayed away and the meeting was cosy but bland President Jacques Chirac is growing ambivalent about Africa. A critical observer of Franco-African affairs, the Chairman of the non-governmental organisation Survie, Françoi...
Vol 42 No 2 | FRANCEAFRICA Not franc 26th January 2001 The assassination of Congo-Kinshasa's President Laurent-Désiré Kabila played havoc with the running order at Cameroon's Franco-African summit, the 21st since 1973. Un...
Vol 41 No 25 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLECONGO-KINSHASAFRANCE End of empire 22nd December 2000 The latest would-be peacemaker for Congo-Kinshasa is the President of neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso.
Vol 41 No 24 | FRANCEAFRICA Presidential pranks 8th December 2000 France is rocked by scandals involving some former key Africa policy-makers. Ex-Minister of Cooperation for Development, Michel Roussin, was let out after five nights in gaol on 6 ...
Vol 41 No 6 | CHADFRANCE All change 17th March 2000 A complex row over oil, French troops, and links with rebels has boiled over For a French ambassador to be expelled from Chad was once unthinkable: Paris was more likely to expel a Chadian president. Changing times were marked on 11 March by the announcemen...
Vol 40 No 19 | FRANCEAFRICA Another Euroland 24th September 1999 Prospects for economic union in West Africa, at least among the CFA Franc Zone countries, are looking up. The Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine is pushing ahead ...