Sarkozy unwelcome in Africa

Dozens of protesters openly booed French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday at the funeral of former Gabonese president Omar Bongo Ondimba in Libreville. The French news blog Rue89 analyses Sarkozy's difficult relations with the former French colonies in Africa: "Without doubt Sarkozy has made no attempt to understand Africa, and every one of his African meetings has ended in failure. The whistles and cries of 'We don't want you here, go away!' ... are just the ultimate sign of a historic failure. ... Nicolas Sarkozy is paying for his evasive attitude to French Africa. As opposed to his predecessors since Charles De Gaulle, Sarkozy has no history with Africa. ... But above all, Nicolas Sarkozy will unfortumately go down in history as the man who was unable to revitalise French-African relations, which badly need to be restarted on a new basis."

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