Parissources say President Jacques Chirac's policy is being led not by his Africa advisors Michel Dupuch and Fernand Wibaux but by Generals Jean-Pierre Kelche and François Regnault and Chirac's private Chief of Staff Admiral Jean-Luc Delaunay...
Vol 37 No 25 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Jacques Chirac was preceded by Presidents Abdou Diouf of Senegal Omar Bongo of Gabon and (most senior of all) Gnassingbé Eyadèma of Togo - not perhaps the best augury for the summit's official theme 'democracy and good governance'...
Vol 37 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
In Paris President Jacques Chirac's advisors offer him alternative strategies...
Patassé who was at the Rome food conference when the mutiny erupted on 15 November flew to Paris on 17 November but didn't meet President Jacques Chirac (just back from Japan) for a week...
It comes as France under Gaullist President Jacques Chirac is struggling to evolve a new policy towards its African ex-colonies and when events in nearby countries including Niger have dented hopes for an African 'democratic revolution' on the East European model...
Konaré refused to go to Dakar when summoned to meet President Jacques Chirac in July 1995 earning a reputation in Paris as a difficult customer...
Vol 37 No 23 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Managing Mobutu was the central question at a mini-summit on 29 October organised by President Jacques Chirac at the Elysée Palace and attended by Gabon' s President Omar Bongo and Cameroon' s Paul Biya...
Vol 37 No 21 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Competition is stiff since French troops were of little use in the 1991 Gulf War as President Jacques Chirac so loudly complained...
In France to be Mayor of Paris is seen as a step to the presidency the route Jacques Chirac followed...
President Jacques Chirac took the trouble to visit Congo in July...