La Republique, normally the iron-masked protector of its businesses from foreign hands, has been--relatively--peaceable about the whole affair.

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"Quite obviously, the confusion which has set in will only increase 'Sarkozy nostalgia', " says Jacques Camus in La Republique du Centre.

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He was able to find several examples of people using the pay phones in the middle of the day on the busy Avenue de la Republique.

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In Bamako, a group of young artists got together after the military coup in March and formed the movement, Sofas de la Republique (Warriors of the Republic), in a tribute to the great warriors of the Mandingo Empire.

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