This week Chad announced that it is withdrawing its troops from Mali, saying they aren’t equipped to fight a guerrilla conflict. The Chadians have been praised for their performance in […]
Abou Zeid, back again. We’ve been burying the AQMI leader for weeks now and this week, just as you thought there was no coming back for Zeid, his group release […]
France’s foreign intelligence agency has a new chief: Bernard Bajolet has been named director of DGSE (Direction Générale de Sécurité Exterieure). Hats very much off to Jean-Dominique Merchet, who three weeks ago […]
Full Speech of Francois Hollande before the Moroccan parliament. 04/04/2013 Having seen the scale of French economic interests in Morocco, it probably won’t surprise many to learn that France’s position […]
“The message is simple: France trusts Morocco.” In Rabat, the Flambé circus has just come to town. President Hollande and no less than 9 ministers visited the Moroccan capital this […]
Mali notwithstanding, we’re apparently witnessing the end of France as a military power- that is according to critics of the Hollande government’s proposed long-term defence budget. This month, we’ll see […]
Just in case you missed it, France has officially confirmed the death of AQMI leader, Abou Zeid. The president’s Elysee palace put out a statement, on Saturday 23 March, saying: […]
As one ambassador leaves, another enters- France’s envoy to Afghanistan, Bernard Bajolet is rumoured to be next in line for the director’s post at the DGSE, the French foreign intelligence […]
So, the Mali conflict claims the job of another senior French diplomat- the country’s ambassador to Mali, Christian Rouyer has been removed from his post on Thursday (21 March), Le Figaro […]
So, more fuel to the fire around the question of how dead are the AQMI leaders, Abou Zeid and Mokhtar Belmokhtar. It’s another Sahel news outlet causing doubts this time: […]
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