Jacques Foccart

• Africa-France Summit

Establishing a political statement of his African politics since 1995, [Jacques Chirac] spoke of two imperatives: "stability and solidarity." During his two consecutive presidential mandates, Chirac has sought to prove his self-proclaimed love of Africa. The French initiatives include the promise to double its contributions to the world funds to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis-the three main illnesses plaguing the continent-by 2007. In 2005, the French president introduced a new tax on plane tickets, from which profits go to fight these main illnesses. Yet the French initiatives have left little trace. Fewer than 20 countries have adopted the "Chirac Tax. The arrival of Chirac in power in 1995 helped the "Africa Cell" to institutionalize itself, winning great respect after being c...

... being controlled for years by Jacques Foccart, a Gaullist who portrayed the cell as the source o...

• New York Amsterdam News
• August 14, 2009

• The man who ran Francafrique.

The death of Frenchman Jacques Foccart on March 19, 1997, created a powerful impact in French-speaking Africa. Foccart was considered the most mysterious and powerful man in France under the leadership of Charles de Gaulle. He is considered the engine and prime mover behind the success of France's special sphere of influence in post-colonial Africa called Francafrique. Foccart's extreme secretiveness was to make him a legend. His death will likely not be able to lift the ambiguity surrounding the myth and the man.

• The National Interest
• Nbr. 1997, March 1997

• Mastering 'irrational' violence: the relegitimization of French security policy in sub-Saharan Africa.

... died in 1993, Francois Mitterand in 1996, Jacques Foccart in 1997, and Togo's Gnassingbe Eyadema in ...

• Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
• Vol. 31 Nbr. 2, April 2006

• 'Civilization' on trial: the colonial and postcolonial state in Africa.

... secret service network (SDCE and REseaux Foccart). Third, the new countries did not have enough tra... University Press, 1990) and for France is Jacques Marseille, Empire colonial et capitalisme francais...

• Journal of Third World Studies
• Vol. 25 Nbr. 1, March 2008