Posts Tagged ‘france’
A look at loving and hating the French in Africa
Kudos to Adam Nossiter, the New York Times’ man in Dakar, for today’s piece on mixed feelings about the French across Francophone Africa. (He even pulled it off without mentioning Rwanda, whose relationship with France is so troubled it skews the curve.) France is often seen as quietly backing, well, the bad guys [...]
You don't get to be 15 years on the lam from genocide charges without being clever…
Here’s an update on the FDLR web page story, a short online piece for the Christian Science Monitor.
And then, there's Rwanda and France…
From today’s New Times, Rwanda’s English-language daily: the Rwandan government is going to indict French officials named in the Mucyo Report, an investigation of the French role in the genocide. The report does not give a flattering picture of France (though my French is too bad to understand the whole 300 pages or so). [...]
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