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...

After consolidating her position in the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party with considerable skill and quiet support from party grandees of the pre-Magufuli era she spread diplomatic balm during multiple foreign trips meeting the heads of the World Bank's private sector arm the International Finance Corporation (IFC) the African Development Bank (AfDB) France's President Emmanuel Macron and French business leaders there and in Brussels Charles Michel President of the European Council and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen who announced €425 million in projects...

Recent visits from the foreign ministers of France and Germany Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock respectively to Addis Ababa and a successful European tour by Abiy hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni signals a slow resumption of European support and investment...

Not so much a policy revamp as a public relaunch: that was the message of Emmanuel Macron's Elysée palace address on 27 February two days before flying to Libreville Luanda Brazzaville and Kinshasa...

And a date is still to be set for a long-planned state visit to Morocco by France's President Emmanuel Macron suggesting frostier relations with King Mohammed VI...

President Emmanuel Macron has also played into their hands by failing to understand that the anti-French discourse in Africa is rooted in its arrogance inconsistency military interventions and visa policy...

Benin insiders suggest that when France's President Emmanuel Macron visited in July he may have advocated some political change in private...

It must have been with private relief that President Emmanuel Macron greeted England's 3-0 defeat of Senegal in the FIFA World Cup thus sparing Les Bleus from a next-round clash with the Lions of Teranga on 10 December...

It has also secured some support from France's President Emmanuel Macron IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and albeit more qualified from United States climate envoy John Kerry and World Bank President David Malpass...