France in bid to salvage waning ties to Africa
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France is hosting its 24th Franco-African summit this week as critics slam its role in the region.
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When he took office six months ago, President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged to overhaul France's ties with Africa, scrapping the colonial mentality that long has tainted dealings with the continent.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the frosty edge off ties with Algeria on Tuesday during his first visit outside Europe, saying France and its colony for 132 years must bury a rocky past and reinvent the future.
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The Ivorian leader calls for the French business community to return, saying their "mutual interests" are at stake.
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Israel's foreign minister on Monday asked France to use its influence in the Arab world to help promote better relations between Israel and Persian Gulf and North African nations.
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French officials sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Chad after President Nicolas Sarkozy offended local sensibilities by promising to bring home a group of Europeans accused of abducting 103 African children.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier is to head to India for a two-day trip aimed at reinforcing ties and examining its growing role in the world, his office said.
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An exodus of foreigners from Ivory Coast has showed no signs of easing as African leaders prepare to meet to seek ways to end the crisis in the West African country.
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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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Ministers from Europe and Africa hold talks on how to halt the influx of illegal African migrants to Europe.
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France is pushing for an aid corridor into Sudan's Darfur region as a solution to the crisis at the G8.
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France plans to offer financial incentives to more immigrants, especially from Africa, to return home voluntarily.
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NIAMEY, Niger -- French troop reinforcements flew to the coastal city of Abidjan in riot-torn Ivory Coast yesterday amid rising concerns that the conflict between government and rebel forces was on the verge of spiraling out of control and could dramatically hurt its West African neighbors.
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The Entente Cordiale was a colonial-era agreement signed by Britain and France to stop disputes over interests in Africa and other areas across the globe.
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Business & money: French desperate to keep bank out of foreign hands
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France was flying in hundreds of extra soldiers to Ivory Coast and the West African nation said it was pulling back its troops following the worst violence seen between France and its former colony in decades.
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ABIDJAN  - South African President Thabo Mbeki was to meet his Ivory Coast counterpart Laurent Gbagbo, hoping to ease tensions after a weekend of violence that has evoked fears of a return to the conflict that has split the west African state for two