The launch was addressed by heads of government including French President Emmanuel Macron German Chancellor Angela Merkel and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa...
He had begun talks with French president Emmanuel Macron who in November 2017 at a public meeting with students in Ouagadougou had publicly signalled his own government's openness to change...
Many reports in Italy have argued that Haftar is receiving significant financial support from French President Emmanuel Macron's government...
Vol 61 No 2 |
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President Emmanuel Macron chose Pau as the summit venue because it is the home base for seven of the 13 French soldiers killed in a 25 November helicopter collision during an operation targeting ISGS...
The government's backing of the new West African eco currency looks less like policy and more like rhetorical support for Akufo-Addo's close ally Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara who announced the new currency standing alongside France's President Emmanuel Macron in Abidjan...
Towards the end of the year the governments of the G5 alliance (Burkina Faso Chad Mali Mauritania and Niger) agreed that it would make sense to establish common positions before an early 2020 strategy summit with President Emmanuel Macron of France postponed from 16 December (AC Vol 60 No 25 In search of allies)...
Vol 60 No 25 |
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After Niamey the G5 presidents were due to attend a summit in the French town of Pau at the invitation of France's President Emmanuel Macron but the deadly attack in Niger caused its postponement...
Condé's network of old French friends includes former foreign minister Bernard Kouchner and the logistics baron Vincent Bolloré who is on good terms with President Emmanuel Macron...
In August at the French seaside resort of Biarritz President Emmanuel Macron and his Burkinabè counterpart Roch Marc Christian Kaboré who is chairing the G5 made a joint plea for more financial support...
After launching a Peugeot assembly plant at Thika in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron in March Kenyatta decreed that all government ministries and agencies must henceforth procure only locally-assembled vehicles in line with his 'Buy Kenyan Build Kenya' legacy policy...