Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron

In November the Ghanaian President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo delivered a stern indictment of Africa's dependency on European benefactors both economically and politically during a visit to Accra by President Emmanuel Macron of France (AC Vol 58 No 25 Power to the president's elbow)...

President Emmanuel Macron chose Ouagadougou as the venue last November for discussions about the relationship between France and Francophone Africa but stopped short of unveiling a comprehensive new French Africa policy (AC Vol 58 No 24 Macron woos Ouaga)...

Organisational problems quickly emerged in December when President Emmanuel Macron hosted his G5 counterparts together with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy as well as United States EU and UN representatives at summit talks at La Celle Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris...

Ambitious 42-year-old Prime Minister Youssef Chahed may exhibit some traits of a Tunisian Emmanuel Macron but he is shackled to an SDR2...

Few dare make more robust open criticisms so it was notable that Emmanuel Macron's first official visit to Algiers as President of France on 6 December was pointedly brief...

Education Minister Jean-Martin Coulibaly's dismissive behaviour towards teachers resulted in them holding a 48-hour national strike during French President Emmanuel Macron's not quite incident-free visit in late November (AC Vol 58 No 24 Macron woos Ouaga)...

Addressing the press and diplomatic corps on 30 November in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron also on a brief visit to Accra on his way back to France from the Abidjan summit Akufo-Addo expounded his core idea of a 'Ghana beyond aid'...

A sober debate on how to improve youth employment in sub-Saharan Africa was what the summiteers had prepared for about 10 000 delegates and over 80 European and African leaders including France's Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel...

Youth employment migration terrorism: President Emmanuel Macron of France hit all the right buttons during his speech at the University of Ouagadougou where he showed his youthful side in a selective disregard for protocol by arriving 45 minutes late...

Emmanuel Macron wants to go beyond a purely defensive policy stance: he is acutely aware that having been elected to keep out the populist isolationist Marine Le Pen his international credentials are doubly important...

Who's who in team Macron In managing French strategy towards Africa President Emmanuel Macron draws on expertise from across the government machine the worlds of business and culture and from across the political spectrum...