Vol 40 No 16 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
President Jacques Chirac's four-country hurtle round West Africa (21-24 July) was a damp squib...
Bouteflika has publicly invited President Jacques Chirac to Algiers...
Instead Bongo has demanded that President Jacques Chirac wind up the Joly inquiry which French law would not permit even if he were so inclined...
His prestige was boosted in 1995 when he refused to accept the travel plans of French President Jacques Chirac objecting to flying to meet him in Dakar on the grounds of 'neo-colonialism'...
So Luanda wants to put pressure on France: President Jacques Chirac has close ties with Hassan and Compaoré...
Vol 40 No 6 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
This time Dominique Strauss-Kahn the French Finance minister and President Jacques Chirac won agreement from the new European central bank to leave the rate unchanged with the approval of African politicians and central bankers...
Vol 40 No 6 |
- FRANCE
- BRITAIN
Africanist academics such as Jean Copans and director of the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales Jean-François Bayart and heavyweights from Bordeaux’s Centre d’Etude d’Afrique Noire were scathing about Africa policy under late President François Mitterrand and remain suspicious of Jacques Chirac’s Gaullist line...
Sassou and his wife dinner guests at President Jacques Chirac’s Elysée Palace have until now been firmly wedded to la Francophonie...
The big decisions will come from French President Jacques Chirac and Elysée Africa advisor Michel Dupuch...
Bad blood between Konaré and neo-Gaullists such as Michel Dupuch head of the Elysée Palace’s cellule africain goes back at least as far as Konaré’s refusal to travel to Dakar Senegal for French President Jacques Chirac’s first presidential tour of Africa in July 1995...