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...

In October German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met Tinubu in Abuju to open discussions on Nigeria supplying gas...

At a climate change summit in Berlin in May Ruto secured pledges from Chancellor Olaf Scholz that Germany would provide funding and technical support for the planned capacity expansion project of the Olkaria geothermal site in the Rift Valley...

In April German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged to help mineral-rich countries like Namibia build their own processing capacity although cutting Europe's dependence on imports from China was part of his motivation...

Ahead of the EU-African Union summit in February German Chancellor Olaf Scholz suggested that African states be part of a 'climate club' and share the same rules on carbon emissions as a way to avoid being caught by the levy (AC Vol 63 No 4 Brussels tries to reset relations amid pandemic fall-out)...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will attend as will China's Premier Li Qiang and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Bazoum and his country's training mission for Nigérien special forces...

On 24 May South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Pretoria that African economies as 'non-aligned bystanders' were paying the price for the war on Ukraine and of western sanctions...