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...
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During President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Kigali in May last year a massive increase in development assistance by the Agence Française de Développement to €370 million was announced...
President Emmanuel Macron's government is also supportive of Kagame due to Rwanda's offer to protect French company TotalEnergies' multi-billion-dollar gas project in northern Mozambique...
France's President Emmanuel Macron has endorsed a plan to transfer $100bn to African institutions which might include the African Development Bank but other G20 economies are yet to back it...
French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Algiers on 25-26 August will be about more than gas deals...
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France's President Emmanuel Macron got a head start by inviting his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el Sisi to the Elysée Palace in Paris for an unpublicised tête à tête on 22 July...
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Sall also echoed statements from French President Emmanuel Macron who said Africa and Europe must 'not fall into the trap' of Russia's stance blaming the shortage on Western sanctions...
Vol 63 No 12 |
- MALI
- FRANCE
Although he has just been released from a decade of service as one of France's most senior ministers by President Emmanuel Macron Jean-Yves Le Drian is not expected to find the time to answer the summons of the Bamako public prosecutor for interview in the Malian capital at 8 am on Monday 20 June...
Sall called for the EU to work with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to turn French President Emmanuel Macron's FARM (Food & Agriculture Resilience Mission) initiative into reality...
Brussels is yet to agree on a common position over the use of the US$650 billion of the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) reserve currency released by the International Monetary Fund last year but Emmanuel Macron has argued for at least $100bn to be channelled into programmes bolstering Africa's financial reserves and capacity...