Some 6, 000 French citizens live in Cameroon, part of which was once a French colony.
About 6, 000 French citizens live in the West African nation, which was a French colony until 1960.
The Central African Republic came into being after the French colony known as Ubangi-Shari gained independence in 1960.
Instead of Salaka, he called her "cherie" sweetheart in French, still spoken in this former French colony.
Such a scenario was played out recently in the Comoro islands, a former French colony off Africa's east coast.
As a French colony, Haiti enjoyed fabulous riches from its sugar-cane crop.
Vietnam as a French colony was run better than it was now.
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Following a violent slave rebellion in the neighbouring French colony of Saint Domingue (now Haiti) in 1791, many French plantation owners fled to Cuba fearing for their lives.
On the night of August 22 to 23, 1791, in Bois-Caiman, in the then French colony of Saint Domingue, the slaves revolted to secure their release.
The former French colony asked France and the United States to help ensure "the rebels return home...instead of destroying and killing Central Africans, " President Francois Bozize said.
France has about 3, 150 troops now involved in the operation code-named Operation Serval in Mali, all but 1, 000 of whom are currently deployed in the former French colony.
Niger lies to the east of Mali, where French troops and warplanes are fighting alongside government troops to push back Islamist fighters who seized much of the former French colony in 2012.
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The latest tremors in Comoros had less to do with Mr Taki's rule than with Mayotte, the fourth island in the archipelago, which in 1975 had voted to remain a French colony.
The following October, the government of Chad, the former French colony in equatorial Africa, announced that it would amend a law controlling the spending of revenue from an oil pipeline that the bank had helped finance.
While most of the populace is mired in poverty, let's not forget that this former French colony is also home to some of the world's richest diamond fields (which is where diplomatic status proves an invaluable investment).
French forces are involved in the fight in Mali, a former French colony that retains close ties with Paris, in an effort to prevent the Islamists from turning the once-peaceful democracy into a haven for international terrorists.
French forces are involved in the fight in Mali, a former French colony that retains close ties with Paris, in an effort to prevent the Islamists from turning the once peaceful democracy into a haven for international terrorists.
On February 12, 2006, the London Sunday Times reported that Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the President of Congo-Brazzaville, another former French colony in central Africa, had spent more than three hundred thousand dollars on hotel rooms during a visit to New York for a U.N.
Their examples of fulfilment and violence contend with more traditional ones, like that of his father, a widower who spends his life in joyless service to the state and retires to an ashram in the former French colony of Pondicherry, there to renounce the snares of this world.
Haiti began its existence as a brutal French slave colony divided into sugar and coffee plantations.
The end of French rule meant the colony of Saint Domingue, renamed Haiti after its original Taino Indian name, became the first black-led independent nation in the world.
Speaking in Bamako on Saturday, Mr Hollande pledged more French aid to its former colony and vowed to restore cultural sites damaged by the rebels.
Carrefour did so after French billionaire Bernard Arnault teamed up with Colony Capital, an American real estate fund, to buy 10% of the hypermarket concern earlier in the year. (See: "Carrefour Drops As Arnault Takes Stake") After the purchase, the new shareholders reportedly put pressure on management to carve off the property assets.
French Protestants, fleeing persecution at home, founded a Florida colony in 1564, before all but two of the Pilgrims were born.
France's embassy in its former colony said it is trying to round up other French residents and foreigners who want to leave.
However, French President Francois Hollande said Paris would not intervene in its former colony.
James Freyn, the narrator, is 106, a dropped-out philosophiser, reminiscing into Cowley's tape-recorder about a trip he made in his 20s into the interior of a god-forsaken British colony in South America, to collect two horses from a French-Swiss religious nutter worshipped by robotically obedient natives.
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