Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron

Over recent days President Emmanuel Macron and key advisers have been reviewing the French engagement in the Sahel amid increasingly vocal criticism of the Opération Barkhane military campaign and rumblings of concern – even among the generals...

Or whether Olfa Terras – married to French hedge fund millionaire and philanthropist Guillaume Rambourg – could be the candidate to channel a movement partly inspired by La République En Marche which brought Emmanuel Macron to the French presidency...

President Emmanuel Macron even felt obliged to phone Serraj to assure him of France's support for him and the PC as Libya's legitimate authority and that it totally rejected 'the attack on Tripoli and threats to the lives of civilians'...

However dark conspiratorial mutterings about foreign attempts at subversion by bogeymen like French President Emmanuel Macron or Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani could inflame feelings...

The only exceptions have been Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi who warned that the demonstrations posed risks and French President Emmanuel Macron who hailed Bouteflika's decision not to run again as 'a new page in the development of Algerian democracy'...

France is stepping up relations with Anglophone Africa; President Emmanuel Macron's trips to Ethiopia Djibouti and Kenya in early March were the latest example...

In the early evening of 15 February he held talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron...

Ghazouani is widely thought to be more sympathetic to France than many other officers which will probably reassure key G5 sponsor President Emmanuel Macron...

This stately pace of advance was interrupted by a vehicle-borne suicide attack on the Joint Force's headquarters in Sévaré in central Mali on 29 June by Jamaat Nusrat ul Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) which destroyed much of the Joint Force's headquarters infrastructure and equipment and prevented French President Emmanuel Macron making good on his promise that it would be ready in August (AC Vol 59 No 14 Shaky start for Sahel force)...

The Kremlin has been gleefully pushing an anti-French agenda and Touadéra wanted payback for what he felt was humiliating treatment at Yerevan Armenia at the last Organisation de la Francophonie summit when President Emmanuel Macron and other Francophone leaders told him he had to agree to an African Union-UN peace process and negotiate with the country's armed groups...