Wary eyes in French-speaking West Africa are being directed towards France as Nicolas Sarkozy begins his presidency. Babacar Gueye, political science professor at Dakar's Cheikh Anta Diop University, says most Africans were hoping for a different outcome. The May 7 run-off election pitted Sarkozy, a business-oriented conservative with a reformist agenda, against Senegal-born socialist Segolene Royal.