French Foreign Minister 'Took Cash From African Dictators'

The French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner yesterday dismissed claims that he had mingled humanitarian activities with paid work for African dictators as "grotesque" and anti-Semitic.

The allegations against M. Kouchner, co-founder of Médecins sans Frontières, are contained in a vitriolic book published yesterday to a divided response from the French political establishment. Its author is one of France's most experienced – and most controversial – investigative journalists.

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