At the June Summit for a New Global Financing Pact hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris diplomats and European journalists agreed that the Kenyan President had been the most impressive of the dozen African leaders attending...

Global leaders may publicly agree that an overhaul of the international financial system is overdue but don't expect a breakthrough at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact to be hosted in Paris by France's President Emmanuel Macron on 22-23 June (AC Vol 64 No 8 Rival debt plans hold up new finance & Vol 64 No 10 No brave new Bretton Woods in sight)...

Leaders such as France's President Emmanuel Macron had pledged that at least $100bn of the SDRs would be redirected to African but almost two years later the redistribution has fallen far short of the promised target...

France's President Emmanuel Macron is hosting a summit on international development financing in June to which Mottley has been invited...

President Faustin Archange Touadéra is at the centre of complex plotting by western countries led by President Emmanuel Macron Central African Republic's neighbours and international financial institutions as they try to wrest his country out of the Kremlin's orbit...

After consolidating her position in the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party with considerable skill and quiet support from party grandees of the pre-Magufuli era she spread diplomatic balm during multiple foreign trips meeting the heads of the World Bank's private sector arm the International Finance Corporation (IFC) the African Development Bank (AfDB) France's President Emmanuel Macron and French business leaders there and in Brussels Charles Michel President of the European Council and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen who announced €425 million in projects...

Recent visits from the foreign ministers of France and Germany Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock respectively to Addis Ababa and a successful European tour by Abiy hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni signals a slow resumption of European support and investment...