The resignation of Prime Minister Edem Kodjo on 19 August puts President Gnassingbé Eyadèma back in control after dividing the opposition and reasserting his special relationship with President Jacques Chirac' s Gaullist government in Paris...
Vol 37 No 17 |
- GABON
- FRANCE
A French judicial investigation into alleged embezzlement by the former chairman of Elf- Aquitaine Loïk le Floch Prigent (currently in custody for his own protection) is embarassing Paris and Libreville by shedding light on the secret channelling of political funds from President Omar Bongo's government to President Jacques Chirac' s Gaullist Rassemblement pour la République...
Vol 37 No 16 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
When he came to power 14 months ago President Jacques Chirac promised a new French policy for Africa...
On 22 May President Jacques Chirac therefore instructed his Minister of Defence Charles Mignon to send air and ground forces into action...
Vol 37 No 11 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Whatever else was discussed during President Henri Konan Bédié's hastily arranged meeting with French President Jacques Chirac in Paris on 16 May it seems certain they talked about instability in the Ivorian army...
From Gabon Bongo besieged French President Jacques Chirac on the telephone...
Vol 37 No 10 |
- WESTERN SAHARA
During King Hassan II's state visit to France on 7-8 May he found time to raise the issue of the UN's withdrawal plans with President Jacques Chirac...
Soglo even wrote to French President Jacques Chirac complaining of an international conspiracy against him involving most of his neighbours...
After a painful recovery from bronchial pneumonia he attended the Sharm el Sheikh terrorism summit in March and means to visit his old friend Jacques Chirac in Paris in May...
Jacques Chirac's first foreign visit as President was to Morocco...