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...
Vol 60 No 15 |
- FRANCE
- SAHEL
Over recent days President Emmanuel Macron and key advisers have been reviewing the French engagement in the Sahel amid increasingly vocal criticism of the Opération Barkhane military campaign and rumblings of concern – even among the generals...
Or whether Olfa Terras – married to French hedge fund millionaire and philanthropist Guillaume Rambourg – could be the candidate to channel a movement partly inspired by La République En Marche which brought Emmanuel Macron to the French presidency...
President Emmanuel Macron even felt obliged to phone Serraj to assure him of France's support for him and the PC as Libya's legitimate authority and that it totally rejected 'the attack on Tripoli and threats to the lives of civilians'...
However dark conspiratorial mutterings about foreign attempts at subversion by bogeymen like French President Emmanuel Macron or Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani could inflame feelings...
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The only exceptions have been Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi who warned that the demonstrations posed risks and French President Emmanuel Macron who hailed Bouteflika's decision not to run again as 'a new page in the development of Algerian democracy'...
France is stepping up relations with Anglophone Africa; President Emmanuel Macron's trips to Ethiopia Djibouti and Kenya in early March were the latest example...
Vol 60 No 4 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
In the early evening of 15 February he held talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron...