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Ruto strengthens hand as Nairobi summit marks Macron’s African swansong

Part investment forum and part military realignment, summit co-hosts France and Kenya brought in 30 African leaders and some 1,500-2,000 business leaders

There was enough mutual self-interest, measured in €23 billion (US$27bn) of commercial deals and diplomatic positioning ahead of the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains in June, to make the grandiose Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi on 11-12 May worthwhile for co-hosts Kenya’s President William Samoei Ruto and France’s Emmanuel Macron. It was not an entirely convincing rebranding of the old, almost exclusively francophone France-Africa conferences.

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