President Emmanuel Macron has been weighing up the recommendations from Jean-Marie Bockel – a former development and defence junior minister whom he appointed in February as his special envoy to Gabon Senegal Côte d'Ivoire and Chad which all host French bases (AC Vol 65 No 16 Moscow sees a year of transition)...

President Emmanuel Macron was quick to congratulate Faye as soon as his election victory was confirmed...

On 30 July Moroccan state news agency Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP) gleefully reproduced a letter in which President Emmanuel Macron told Moroccan King Mohammed VI (M6) that ‘autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty is the framework within which this issue must be resolved' and was ‘the only basis for reaching an agreement' on the former Spanish colony...

France is bullish ‘we have to stay of course we will stay' said Jean-Marie Bockel President Emmanuel Macron's personal envoy on whether France will maintain its 1 000 troops in the country...

But President Emmanuel Macron has been consumed by the fallout from national elections there...

In late April President Paul Kagame objected to Quintin in a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron...

France's President Emmanuel Macron authorised €500 million of development aid to Rwanda in what insiders described as a ‘triangular arrangement' to protect French commercial interests in Africa...

Layered on top of that Meloni used the summit to showcase her affinity with authoritarian leaders across the world – she invited India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Argentine President Javier Milei with whom she spent more time than her western European leaders such as France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Olaf Scholz...