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Article: Is France still pulling the strings? (French foreign policy towards Africa)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
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Still smarting from the effects of the devaluation of the CFA franc, francophone countries are wondering what M Jacques Chirac, the new conservative President has in store for them. One man who is expected to heavily influence M Chirac's decisions is M Jacques Foccart whose involvement in Africa began with Gen Charles De Gaulle. In his recently published memoires, M Foccart spells out just how deeply the French were able to influence policy decisions in African countries, even to deciding who would be the next head of state. As a new era in French-African relations begins, we take a retrospective of France's Africa policy from De Gaulle to the present.
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