The report notes that collaboration is often driven by linguistic or historical ties - scientists from Francophone Africa are especially likely to work with scientists in France, for example.

调查报告指出，这种合作经常以语言和历史为纽带，比如法语非洲籍科学家喜欢同法国的同行合作。

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Recent international surveys by Francophone Africa (PASEC) and Eastern and Southern Africa ( SACMEQ) show boys ahead of girls in all of the low income countries who participated in the assessments.

法语非洲（PASEC）和东南非洲（ SACMEQ）最近进行的国际调查表明，在所有参加评估的低收入国家中，男童都领先于女童。

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Early on Gandur gravitated to francophone Africa and became manager of Philbros' African oil trading operations.

FORBES: Trouble Is My Business

Many of the actors at Mr Brook's Paris theatre, the Bouffes du Nord, are originally from Francophone Africa.

ECONOMIST: At 81, Peter Brook turns to Africa to keep himself young

Zaire's President Mobutu, whom Mr Foccart had wooed for years, was dying of cancer and unable to inspire anyone to defend the biggest and potentially richest country in Francophone Africa.

ECONOMIST: Jacques Foccart