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Jacques Chirac

Date of Birth: 29 November 1932
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Died: 26 September 2019


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Forgotten promises

He has not disowned the modernising agenda established under Alain Juppé and Lionel Jospin which continued fitfully under President Jacques Chirac...


Good judge, bad judge

Despite the continued denials of former President Jacques Chirac and earlier François Mitterrand of involvement in Angolagate Pasqua insists they were both fully informed about the illegal arms deals and commissions earned by the French middlemen as were their Prime Ministers Alain Juppé and Edouard Balladur and finance and defence ministers...


Remaking an old relationship

Sarkozy's predecessor Jacques Chirac assiduously courted South Africa despite differences with the then President Thabo Mbeki...


The contenders

France's ex-President Jacques Chirac described him in 2007 as a populist charismatic manipulative nationalist leader in some ways resembling a fascist...


Espion embarrassant

In an extract dated June 2002 Bertrand a protégé of ex-President Jacques Chirac wrote: 'Tassez [a French businessman] received money from Falcone for Sarko from Jean-Christophe and African heads of state'...


The dead bite back

Defenders of France’s former dominance in Francophone Africa’s affairs as pursued under ex-President Jacques Chirac are still bitter about the ‘loss’ of Rwanda...


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Papers and death merchants

The Bulletin states that a French export licence of March 2007 authorised the export of 25 armoured vehicles and that the unnamed French firm's then chief executive thanked a consultant to the Africa advisor of France's then President Jacques Chirac for his assistance...


A slow road to travel

CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: For President Denis Sassou-Nguesso the international circuit will be lonelier now that his long-time friend French President Jacques Chirac has left power...


Moving on

Its members are old-fashioned French Africanists including many who served in the previous government under President Jacques Chirac...


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