Bordeaux is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department,southwestern France. A port city,it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region,as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called "Bordelais" (masculine) or "Bordelaises" (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region.
Wallis and Futuna,officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands,is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific,situated between Tuvalu to the northwest,Fiji to the southwest,Tonga to the southeast,Samoa to the east,and Tokelau to the northeast.
Barkat Gourad Hamadou was the Prime Minister of Djibouti from 2 October 1978 until 7 March 2001.
Pierre Frogier is a French politician,who was President of the Government of New Caledonia from 2001 to 2004. He has been French senator for New Caledonia since 2011,and was member of the National Assembly of France from 1996 to 2011. He served as President of the Congress of New Caledonia from 1995 to 1997.
Marie-Noëlle Thémereau is a French New Caledonian politician who served as the former president of the government of New Caledonia,an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean about 1,210 km east of Australia. She has been a member of the loyalist Future Together party.
The Nouméa Accord of 1998 is a promise by the French Republic to grant increased political power to New Caledonia and its original population,the Kanaks,over a twenty-year transition period. It was signed 5 May 1998 by Lionel Jospin,and approved in a referendum in New Caledonia on 8 November,with 72% voting in favour. Under the accord,two more referendum votes,on whether to remain a special collectivity of France or become an independent state,have been held. One was held in 2018,and the second was held in 2020. In both votes a majority chose to remain French. The Nouméa Accord permitted a final referendum to be held,voted for by the Congress of New Caledonia. It was held December 2021 and widely rejected independence amid boycott by the independence movement.
Idriss Arnaoud Ali was a Djiboutian politician who was President of the National Assembly of Djibouti from 2003 to 2015. He was also the Secretary-General of the People's Rally for Progress (RPP) from 2003 to 2012.
Hassoumi Massaoudou is a Nigerien politician who served as minister of Foreign Affairs of Niger from 2021 to 2023. He served as minister of Finance from October 2016 to January 2019. A leading member of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya),he was minister of Communication,Culture,Youth and Sports from 1993 to 1994,president of the PNDS Parliamentary Group from 1999 to 2004,director of the Cabinet of the President from 2011 to 2013,minister of the Interior from 2013 to 2016,and minister of National Defense in 2016.
Thierry Mariani is a French politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. He previously served as Minister in charge of Transport under the Minister of Ecology,Sustainable development,Transport and Housing from 2010 to 2012. A former member of The Republicans (LR),he has been an Independent since 2019.
Dama Dramani is a Togolese politician who was the President of the National Assembly of Togo from 2013 to 2018. He was Secretary-General of the Rally of the Togolese People (RPT),the ruling party,from 2003 to 2006,and following the 2007 parliamentary election he was President of the RPT Parliamentary Group in the National Assembly.
Philippe Juvin is a French medical doctor and politician of the Republicans (LR) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019 for the Île-de-France constituency.
Isabelle Champmoreau is a New Caledonian politician who serves as the Vice President of the Government of New Caledonia. She is a member of The Rally-UMP,and served in the government of Harold Martin. She is a teacher by profession.
Alphonse Gondzia is a Congolese politician who has served in the Senate of Congo-Brazzaville since 2002. He has also been President of the Senate's Judicial and Administrative Affairs Commission since 2002.
Gilbert Tyuiénon is a New Caledonian politician. He is a pro-independence ethnic Kanak. Tyuiénon-was elected Vice President of New Caledonia on 11 March 2011 in the collegial cabinet of Harold Martin and held that position until 5 June 2014. As of 2018,he continues to be a member of the collegial government.
Thierry Lataste is a senior French civil servant.
Roger Laroque was a New Caledonian businessman and politician. He served as mayor of Nouméa from 1953 to 1985 and as a member of the Territorial Assembly from 1972 to 1984.
The Empire Defense Council was a deliberative body established within Free France in 1940. It was subsequently superseded by the French National Committee.
Didier Poidyaliwane was a New Caledonian politician. A pro-independence activist,he was a member of the Caledonian Union (UC) and the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) and strongly defended the rights of indigenous Kanak people. He served in the cabinet of Philippe Germain and Thierry Santa as a minister in the Government of New Caledonia.
Caroline Machoro-Reignier is a Kanak politician in New Caledonia. A member of the pro-independence Caledonian Union,she led the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front alliance in the Congress of New Caledonia from 2011 to 2014. In 1988,she was one of the signatories of the Matignon Agreements between New Caledonian loyalists and separatists.
Caledonian People's Movement is a conservative and anti-separatist political party in New Caledonia founded in 2013 by Gaël Yanno,a former President of the Congress of New Caledonia and MP in the National Assembly of France representing the New Caledonia constituency.
