Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle

CAR officials using Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport can be subject to prolonged searches of their luggage...

The cosy and corrupt relationships between France and its ex-colonies nurtured by Charles de Gaulle's eminence grise Jacques Foccart have been commonly referred to by one word: Françafrique...

Originally Bolloré built his African network out of the contacts book of Jacques Foccart the shadowy master of intrigue who created a murky network of influence known as Françafrique under President Charles de Gaulle which has connected French presidents with top French businesses and Francophone African leaders ever since...

Kpodar for example has already called on the regime to permit the return of all exiled Togolese including Atchadam – who leads the Parti national panafricain (PNP) – and another critic Akila Esso Boko who was recently refused permission to board a Lomé-bound flight at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport...

John's translation of Debray's homage to Charles de Gaulle 'Futurist of a nation' won particular praise...

Algerian reports spoke of a Western build-up including the return to the Mediterranean (from the Gulf) of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle officially for a naval exercise with a new friend (and target for Hollande's defence sales drive) Egypt...

A founder of the 1990s rebel vehicle the Front Islamique arabe de l'Azawad Sidi Mohamed is also reputed to have taken part in the 1958 negotiations on the future of what is now northern Mali serving as a translator for General Charles de Gaulle – a pedigree that his supporters enjoy comparing with with Ag Acherif's rather shorter and less distinguished record...

French troops remain at Libreville’s Camp Charles de Gaulle but why they are there is no longer clear...

He sometimes compares himself to France's late General Charles de Gaulle who won by insisting on being 'the man who says no'...

The late President Charles de Gaulle's old Africa chief Jacques Foccart whom Chirac had brought out of retirement died at the same time...