Russia has been trying to capitalise on anti-French sentiments driven by the close ties between Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Tshisekedi's nemesis Paul Kagame (Dispatches 8/10/24 Macron fails to broker Kinshasa-Kigali talks at Francophone summit AC Vol 65 No 15 Kinshasa urges sanctions on Kigali citing damning UN report & Vol 64 No 20 Security threats multiply ahead of polls)...

On 31 May Oligui Nguema was received by President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée...

As chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Tinubu has launched a hard-line policy against the military junta in Niger with President Emmanuel Macron's encouragement...

Days before Tinubu arrived in Paris Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye commended the ‘courage' of his counterpart Emmanuel Macron for acknowledging that colonial authorities massacred protesting African troops at Thiaroye in December 1944...

Rights campaigners and some governments have raised concerns about the host Azerbaijan's fight with Armenia; that has prompted France's Emmanuel Macron who strongly supports Armenia to sit out this COP...

President Emmanuel Macron's government is wheeling out the ministers of finance trade and foreign affairs on 19-20 November to meet African businesses and official delegates to cut deals in sectors ranging from green energy the circular economy and artificial intelligence...

And in North Africa Macron's trade-off in favour of Morocco against Algeria with his recognition of Rabat's sovereignty over Western Sahara has paid some dividends (AC Vol 65 No 16 Emmanuel Macron's Saharan mystery)...

After meeting France's President Emmanuel Macron at the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) in Villers-Cotterêts on 4-5 October Chad's President Mahamat Déby Itno ‘Kaka' rushed to Abu Dhabi where the protocol was less demanding but the funds more abundant...

Kagame and France's President Emmanuel Macron have presided over a sharp improvement in bilateral relations...

A senior security official from the Abu Dhabi government accompanied Mahamat Kaka on his trip to meet France's President Emmanuel Macron last year (AC Vol 64 No 23 Presidents Mahamat Kaka and Macron meet on security threats)...