France&#39;s Burden in Africa
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Letting Africans save Africa has become an operating objective for world diplomats. But that&#39;s been difficult for one former colonial power, France.
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A summit intended to strengthen ties between Africa and former colonial power France opened on Thursday but all eyes will be on a subject not on the agenda -- Sudan's battered Darfur province.Comment
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French President Jacques Chirac: on his way out figures among the top &#x2019;euro-saures&#x2019; who, in accordance with the laws of evolution, must give way to a new kind of leader.Comment
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9 (IPS) - France is coming under fire for its  heavy-handed  action in destroying virtually the entire air force of its   former colony C- te d'Ivoire in retaliation for the  killings of nine French  soldiers and a U.S. aid worker last  week.
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INSTABILITY is a way of life in West Africa, and Ivory Coast is the latest tragic example. A 2-year-old cease-fire, brokered by France, between Muslim rebels and the government of President Laurent Gbagbo
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Europe is rapidly becoming a dirty word in French politics as fears grow that France&#39;s influence in the European Union is waning.
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Good news has been in short supply for Europe&#39;s traditional industrial economies like Germany and France. Growth remains weak, unemployment high, labor markets are still rigid and the euro is soaring, pricing their exports out of the market.
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France flew home its nine dead soldiers from the Ivory Coast yesterday. The nine died in violence at the weekend that presented a bleak contrast to the long-cultivated image of the
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PARIS, Sep 24 (IPS) - Not a bad idea when French President Jacques Chirac  proposed a global tax on weapons sales and corporate profits to  pay for development in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France, the United States, and other nations launched one of the largest evacuations of Africa's postindependence era yesterday, requisitioning commercial jets to fly out thousands of foreigners following attacks on civilians and peacekeeping troops.
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The United States of Africa. It's one of few concrete plans African leaders agreed on as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week's continental summit.
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ABIDJAN: An exodus from Ivory Coast began yesterday with a first planeload of French nationals while thousands of Ivorians fled to escape a week of deadly violence, amid new tensions that sent thousands into Abidjan&#39;s streets.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame, involved  in a row with France over the 1994 genocide in his country,  further criticized French involvement in Africa on Monday,  blaming some of the continent's woes on Paris.
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French imperialist forces appear to have reestablished control over Ivory Coast, their former prize colony in West Africa, although Paris remains unable to patch together a stable client regime.
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Long after the precolonial gold city of Timbuktu faded from glory and Dakar&#39;s status as the capital of French West Africa expired, even after Monrovia&#39;s cosmopolitanism crumbled and the
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One of the bright spots in Paul Martin&#39;s prime ministership, we&#39;re told, is the figure he cuts abroad. He may seem awkward and ill-at-ease at home and weak in his dealings with George W. Bush, but over in Africa, he comes to life.
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The United Nations is asking Europe to send more troops and military support to the world&#39;s hot spots, particularly in Africa.