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Title: | French intervention in Africa in 1978 |
Author: | Hollick, Julian Crandall |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | The World Today: Chatham House Review |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 71-80 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Chad Congo (Democratic Republic of) Western Sahara France |
Subject: | foreign intervention |
Abstract: | After the energy crisis convinced that France and Europe's future energy requirements would have to come from Africa President Giscard d'Estaing reassessed France's links in Africa, inter alia through new co-operation agreements and personal visits. In January 1978. during a further visit to the Ivory Coast, the President committed France more decisively to the defence of conservative African states against Soviet-backed or -inspired destabilization, The coherence and credibility of the President's policy were quickly put to the test, as simmering conflicts in Chad and the Western Sahara threatened to boil over, carrying; away with them the pro-French governments in N'Djamena and Nouakchott. This article deals with the events in Chad since 1966 those in the Western Sahara since 1976, demonstrating the President's policy, and with the French intervention in Shaba province on 19 May 1978, showing the limits of the President's policy. Notes. |