France cancels Senegal's bilateral debt: 217 million euros
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France wiped out all of Senegal's bilateral debt, totalling 217 million euros (287.9 million dollars), under a deal signed by the two governments, the French finance ministry announced.
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PARIS -- Rwanda severed diplomatic ties with France yesterday in response to a French judge's decision to issue international arrest warrants for nine ranking Rwandans suspected of plotting the 1994 killing of the African nation's president.
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The bulk of Sierra Leone's debt is cancelled after it implements key economic reforms, described by the World Bank as a "milestone".
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The 4.9 billion euro (7.15 billion dollar) rogue trader scandal at Societe Generale does not affect the "solidity and reliability of France's financial system," President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday.
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French President Jacques Chirac favors a moratorium on debt to the Paris Club group of creditors owed by countries hit by the tsunami that devastated southern Asia, his office said in a statement Thursday.
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ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal  - Senegal's government signed  a peace deal on Thursday with rebels in the lush southern  province of Casamance to end a conflict that has been simmering  in the former tourism hotspot for over two decades.
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PARIS The French government formally ceded control of France TÃ©lÃ©com on Wednesday as it began the sale of up to E5.8 billion of shares in the second-largest European phone company.
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The Paris Club of creditor nations agreed on Sunday to cancel 80 percent of the debt Iraq owes its members, ending a trans-Atlantic dispute and
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The European Commission froze its threat of fines against France and Germany on Tuesday, granting the two biggest economies in the euro zone an extra year to bring down their bloated budget deficits.
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Top news: 4 January 2005, Tuesday. All debts of third world's countries to Bulgaria has been settled on bilateral grounds with the respective states and never through third parties, Bulgarian Finance Minister ...
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The United States boosted the fledgling recovery of Liberia by announcing it was erasing the war-ravaged West African nation's bilateral debt.
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Loading worried families onto the last two jumbo jets, France concluded one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa yesterday - an airlift that flew more than 5,000 Westerners away from violence pitting France against its former prize West
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The world&#39;s leading industrial nations agreed Sunday to cancel 80 percent of the nearly $39 billion debt owed them by Iraq, a critical step in rebuilding the country&#39;s devastated
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BRUSSELS The European Commission froze disciplinary action against France and Germany on Tuesday, granting the two biggest euro-zone economies an extra year to bring their budget deficits down.
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France plans to pull a contingent of 200 special forces out of Afghanistan at the start of 2007, the French defense ministry said on Sunday.
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PARIS/BERLIN  - The Paris Club of creditor nations  agreed on Sunday to cancel 80 percent of the debt Iraq owes its  members, ending a transatlantic dispute and probably setting  the framework for debt pardons from other creditors.
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The Slovak and Czech governments rejected a proposal by French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to axe structural funds for new EU members whose taxes were lower than the European average.