Both they and President Emmanuel Macron want retribution for the way their exit was decided and announced...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     This was the background to President Emmanuel Macron's attempt to reconcile with Touadéra at their summit in Paris in August last year  which was mostly about repairing Macron's damaged ego and giving further room to Paul Kagame's continental ambitions...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Morocco's diplomatic coup of 2024 came in July when French President Emmanuel Macron recognised Morocco's sovereignty in Western Sahara and its ‘autonomy plan'  which would end Polisario's claims to full independence (AC Vol 65 No 16  Emmanuel Macron's Saharan mystery)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Cameroon  Congo-Brazzaville  Gabon and Central African Republic (which has the closest commercial and security relations with Russia) maintain ties with French companies and President Emmanuel Macron's government...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     In Paris  President Emmanuel Macron was trying to pick up the pieces after the collapse of the Michel Barnier government and his appointment of centrist François Bayrou as prime minister...
 President Emmanuel Macron was angry after spending so much capital to endorse the young coup-maker  Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ‘Kaka' – only to be stabbed in the back...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Russia has been trying to capitalise on anti-French sentiments driven by the close ties between Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Tshisekedi's nemesis Paul Kagame (Dispatches 8/10/24  Macron fails to broker Kinshasa-Kigali talks at Francophone summit  AC Vol 65 No 15  Kinshasa urges sanctions on Kigali citing damning UN report & Vol 64 No 20  Security threats multiply ahead of polls)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     On 31 May Oligui Nguema was received by President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 65 No 25 | 
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- AFRICA
	     As chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas)  Tinubu has launched a hard-line policy against the military junta in Niger  with President Emmanuel Macron's encouragement...
 Days before Tinubu arrived in  Paris  Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye commended the ‘courage' of his counterpart Emmanuel Macron for acknowledging that colonial authorities massacred protesting African troops at Thiaroye in December 1944...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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            Vol 65 No 25 | 
            - CHAD
- FRANCE
	     President Emmanuel Macron's Africa envoy  Jean-Marie Bockel  has put together proposals on how France could reduce its long-standing military presence in Gabon and Côte d'Ivoire (AC Vol 65 No 20  Nguema's expensive balancing act)...
	 
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            Vol 65 No 23 | 
            - CLIMATE CHANGE
	     Rights campaigners and some governments have raised concerns about the host Azerbaijan's fight with Armenia; that has prompted France's Emmanuel Macron  who strongly supports Armenia  to sit out this COP...