François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande

However they have also accused French president François Hollande of being motivated by a desire to burnish his battered domestic political image by presenting himself as a man of action...

The meeting coincided and was meant to pair with Ouattara’s state visit to French President François Hollande...

From the security services’ long-standing projection across the Sahel – coming under intense pressure in Mali – to Bouteflika’s toying with French President François Hollande over the timing and content of his ‘historic’ visit to Algiers now due in December Algeria sees itself as a muscular player on the world stage...

French President François Hollande supports full disclosure as did Nicolas Sarkozy...

French President François Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius have assiduously backed Traoré...

Algeria’s intelligence on AQIM and its role in regional security (it has said publicly that it will not join the intervention) will be top of the agenda in the meeting in Algiers between Presidents Abdelaziz Bouteflika and François Hollande on 20 October...

Cries of disappointment resound from those expecting François Hollande’s election as President to make a decisive break with the clandestine commercial networks between Paris and its African former colonies...

Buoyed by the news that François Hollande will be there (though a little nervous about what the French President might say about human rights and whom he might meet) Kabila’s government is manically trying to sort out N’djili Airport which descends into bad tempered chaos the moment that more than one international flight lands at around the same time...

President Joseph Kabila Kabange got an unexpected present on 27 August when his French opposite number François Hollande said he would attend the 12-14 October Francophone summit in Kinshasa...

Elected in May France’s new President François Hollande has made Mali a top priority and has stood ready since early in his term to help provide logistical and other practical support to an Ecowas intervention...