Sunday 28 March 2010
By Thomas on Sunday 28 March 2010,
Sitting in the lobby of Kinshasa’s Grand Hotel, Tim
O’Hanlon has dressed down to a short-sleeved shirt. His marathon week of
presentations and meetings is over - until his next trip to the Democratic
Republic of Congo next month.
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Sunday 19 July 2009
By Thomas on Sunday 19 July 2009,
Recession and rising unemployment in rich nations have
begun to eat into remittances, the multi-billion dollar stream of cash that
African migrant workers send to their families back home.
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Sunday 29 March 2009
By Thomas on Sunday 29 March 2009,
The French state-owned nuclear power provider Areva has
signed a deal with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo on
‘‘nationwide uranium exploration’’.
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Sunday 14 December 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 14 December 2008,
From January 5, French viewers watching public television will no longer need
to zap during ad breaks: if president Nicolas Sarkozy has his way, they will be
gone.
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Sunday 23 November 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 23 November 2008,
Martine Aubry, the Mayor of Lille and former labour
minister, w as declared leader of the French Socialist party early yesterday
morning after a bitter and extremely tight race that has left the country’s
opposition in tatters.
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Sunday 2 November 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 2 November 2008,
Days after he was cleared of abuse of power,
International Monetary Fund director general Dominique Strauss-Kahn fought back
with the launch of a new short-term loan to help countries hit by the financial
crisis.
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Sunday 26 October 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 26 October 2008,
The debacle that has unfolded at French bank Caisse
d’Epargne over the past ten days exemplifies the financial crisis in the
country.
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Sunday 5 October 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 5 October 2008,
The past week has seen a dramatic U-turn in the French
government’s attitude to the financial crisis, with president Nicolas Sarkozy
rushing to the rescue of troubled bank Dexia and calling an emergency summit of
the European Union’s four largest economies.
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Sunday 28 September 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 28 September 2008,
After months of hard-fought negotiations, France’s
state-owned electricity provider EDF has finally won control of Britain’s
largest nuclear operator, British Energy
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Sunday 7 September 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 7 September 2008,
Despite rumours that a Russian billionaire is about to
buy Villa Leopolda on the French Riviera for €500 million - the highest price
ever paid for a home worldwide - France is slowly joining the downward property
trend observed elsewhere in the western world.
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By Thomas on Sunday 7 September 2008,
French president Nicolas Sarkozy will travel to Moscow
and Georgia tomorrow in a bid to convince Russia to deal with the remaining
sticking points of the ceasefire agreement brokered on August 12.
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Sunday 20 July 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 20 July 2008,
Having ‘privately infuriated’ Irish ministers by saying
Ireland would have to vote on the Lisbon Treaty once more, French president
Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Ireland is guaranteed to be an interesting
affair.
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Sunday 22 June 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 22 June 2008,
Like his fellow European
leaders, French president Nicolas Sarkozy was not expecting the Irish to vote
No in the Lisbon Treaty referendum ten days ago.
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Sunday 15 June 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 15 June 2008,
French president Nicolas
Sarkozy is said to suffer from regular headaches, and Irish voters have just
given him a major one.
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Sunday 18 May 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 18 May 2008,
Two weeks after cyclone Nargis hit Burma, an increasingly
frustrated international community is still examining ways of forcing the
military government to accept relief efforts.
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Sunday 27 April 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 27 April 2008,
Just one year after his election as French president and
on the back of poor opinion polls, Nicolas Sarkozy adopted a humble posture to
face critics in a 90-minute live television interview last Thursday.
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Sunday 13 April 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 13 April 2008,
Thousands of onlookers and journalists, having spent most
of last Monday waiting to see the Olympic torch relay in Paris, never caught a
glimpse of it.
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Sunday 10 February 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 10 February 2008,
Paris has pledged more than
half of the 3,700 troops involved in the Eufor mission to Chad, as well as most
of the equipment, including nine helicopters. France already has a separate
1,500-strong force on the ground in Chad, with heavy armoured vehicles and
fighter jets.
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Sunday 3 February 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 3 February 2008,
One week after Société Générale
(SocGen) revealed nearly €7 billion in unforeseen losses, the focus has
switched to potential bidders for France’s number two bank. Rumours of takeover
raids have been echoing in French financial circles and media reports, with the
country’s top bank, BNP Paribas, attracting most of the
attention.
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Sunday 27 January 2008
By Thomas on Sunday 27 January 2008,
Eric Fottorino, who was appointed
as chief executive of the French media group behind Le Monde, will have to
bring together feuding factions and streamline a company hit by heavy losses
and debts.
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Thomas Hubert est un journaliste pigiste bilingue basé à Kinshasa, RD Congo depuis le premier trimestre 2009 et auparavant à Paris. Ce blog présente une sélection de ses articles publiés par divers médias et des notes sur la vie quotidienne à Kinshasa.