Leaders such as France's President Emmanuel Macron had pledged that at least $100bn of the SDRs would be redirected to African but almost two years later the redistribution has fallen far short of the promised target...
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EU leaders are also hoping to use the 'New Global Financial Pact' summit to be hosted in Paris by France's President Emmanuel Macron in June to demonstrate that it is Africa's main ally on a new international debt relief programme and on climate finance...
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France's President Emmanuel Macron is hosting a summit on international development financing in June to which Mottley has been invited...
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...
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France's President Emmanuel Macron appears to have given up on the negotiations for a successor to the Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and the African Caribbean and Pacific (APC) community...
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Vol 64 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
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...
