Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron

Not so much a policy revamp as a public relaunch: that was the message of Emmanuel Macron's Elysée palace address on 27 February two days before flying to Libreville Luanda Brazzaville and Kinshasa...

And a date is still to be set for a long-planned state visit to Morocco by France's President Emmanuel Macron suggesting frostier relations with King Mohammed VI...

President Emmanuel Macron has also played into their hands by failing to understand that the anti-French discourse in Africa is rooted in its arrogance inconsistency military interventions and visa policy...

Benin insiders suggest that when France's President Emmanuel Macron visited in July he may have advocated some political change in private...

It must have been with private relief that President Emmanuel Macron greeted England's 3-0 defeat of Senegal in the FIFA World Cup thus sparing Les Bleus from a next-round clash with the Lions of Teranga on 10 December...

It has also secured some support from France's President Emmanuel Macron IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and albeit more qualified from United States climate envoy John Kerry and World Bank President David Malpass...

During President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Kigali in May last year a massive increase in development assistance by the Agence Française de Développement to €370 million was announced...

President Emmanuel Macron's government is also supportive of Kagame due to Rwanda's offer to protect French company TotalEnergies' multi-billion-dollar gas project in northern Mozambique...

France's President Emmanuel Macron has endorsed a plan to transfer $100bn to African institutions which might include the African Development Bank but other G20 economies are yet to back it...

French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Algiers on 25-26 August will be about more than gas deals...