And President Emmanuel Macron's defiant refusal to comply was helping the junta bolster its own popularity by tapping into young Nigériens' resentment of the former colonial power – as evidenced by large demonstrations outside the main French base at Niamey airport (Dispatches 30/8/23 Macron steps up the rhetoric against the Niamey junta)...

The negotiations were led by the Paris Club group of lenders and France's President Emmanuel Macron...

President Emmanuel Macron is leading an international effort including Rwanda and the UN – with growing United States support – to lift the pressure on President Faustin-Archange Touadéra not to seek a third term of office...

President Emmanuel Macron was also very warm to President Denis Sassou-Nguesso at the Financing Pact Summit...

At the June Summit for a New Global Financing Pact hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris diplomats and European journalists agreed that the Kenyan President had been the most impressive of the dozen African leaders attending...

Global leaders may publicly agree that an overhaul of the international financial system is overdue but don't expect a breakthrough at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact to be hosted in Paris by France's President Emmanuel Macron on 22-23 June (AC Vol 64 No 8 Rival debt plans hold up new finance & Vol 64 No 10 No brave new Bretton Woods in sight)...

Leaders such as France's President Emmanuel Macron had pledged that at least $100bn of the SDRs would be redirected to African but almost two years later the redistribution has fallen far short of the promised target...

France's President Emmanuel Macron is hosting a summit on international development financing in June to which Mottley has been invited...

President Faustin Archange Touadéra is at the centre of complex plotting by western countries led by President Emmanuel Macron Central African Republic's neighbours and international financial institutions as they try to wrest his country out of the Kremlin's orbit...