French President Emmanuel Macron stepped back from announcing troop withdrawals to his country's 5 100-strong anti-Islamist force in Mali at a 15-16 February summit in Chad...

French President Emmanuel Macron phoned Manfi and Dubaiba to congratulate them and Dubaiba met foreign ambassadors including those of Italy the US the UK Germany and the EU...

There is deep disappointment that the Covax mechanism launched by President Emmanuel Macron of France and coordinated through the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi the Vaccine Alliance that was supposed to lead to an equitable global distribution of vaccines has become at best a third-world endeavour...

French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement on 19 January that he would be reviewing the deployment of soldiers to Opération Barkhane in the Sahel due to 'good results' in recent months follows fierce clashes in Mali over the past month...

Multilateral turnThe implications are not immediately clear but Blinken who speaks fluent French is likely to listen attentively to what France's President Emmanuel Macron wants for the Sahel and Thomas-Greenfield may herald the return to multilateralism and thus more support for the UN's troubled Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations unies pour la stabilisation au Mali (Minusma) operation in Mali officially the most hazardous UN peacekeeping operation globally...

Some Bangui politicians believe President Emmanuel Macron and his Africa advisor Frank Paris are failing to act because they do not want to threaten France's normalisation of relations with Rwanda seen as a priority or those with Russia another strategic goal...

President Emmanuel Macron's belated formal letter of congratulation to Ouattara however did concentrate on the need for dialogue...

Kenyatta and President Emmanuel Macron attended a ceremony for the agreement at the Elysée palace on 1 October...

President Emmanuel Macron had welcomed Ouattara to the Elysée for lunch on 4 September but his officials publicly stated that France remained firmly of the view that the Ivorian head of state should have stuck to his retirement plan and left the RHDP to choose a new succession candidate after Amadou Gon Coulibaly's death...