Angela Dorothea Merkel

It was a surprise therefore to see him take star billing at a meeting in Brussels on 17 October hosted by the Hanns Seidel Stiftung the political foundation of the Christian Social Union German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian coalition partner (AC Vol 58 No 24 Hopes and fears for the new old guard)...

He is then due to travel to Berlin for the G20 Compact with Africa investment summit on the fringes of which he is expected to hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and possibly President Emmanuel Macron of France...

British Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are criss-crossing the African continent arguing that there are links between economic growth and long-term security in Africa to stem immigration which has become a political football in Europe and severely weakened Merkel's position...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel led serious efforts to pressure Egypt and Tunisia to receive migrants rescued at sea off Libya in 2016...

Nigerians contrasted the lack of pomp and ceremony accorded to Buhari in Washington with the lavish receptions given to France's President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Angela Merkel...

Within a year of the law's passage EU pressure on aid-dependent Niger including a visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany prompted a wave of 'smuggler' arrests and a drastic reduction in traffic through Agadez and Dirkou northwards to Libya...

Organisational problems quickly emerged in December when President Emmanuel Macron hosted his G5 counterparts together with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy as well as United States EU and UN representatives at summit talks at La Celle Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris...

A sober debate on how to improve youth employment in sub-Saharan Africa was what the summiteers had prepared for about 10 000 delegates and over 80 European and African leaders including France's Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel...

Macron and the German chancellor Angela Merkel have made this collaboration in Africa explicit announcing an Alliance pour le Sahel during the summer...

Museveni and co are pinning their hopes on Germany's Angela Merkel – who used a G20 meeting in June to call for EPAs with a series of African regional blocs to be re-opened...