Tuggar's team and its Nigérien counterparts got on well enough – but there has been no melting of the ice between Tinubu who is particularly close to President Emmanuel Macron's government in Paris and Tiani whose army is one of the more formidable in the region...

France's President Emmanuel Macron used his presidency of the G7 to push commitments promoting local processing of minerals in African countries to reduce reliance on China for critical minerals...

The two major opponents are France and Spain with French President Emmanuel Macron stating after the summit that return hubs break ‘the fundamental principles on which the EU was built'...

France's President Emmanuel Macron had initially invited President Cyril Ramaphosa to represent Africa but the Trump administration had threatened to boycott if South Africa attended...

THE PRICE OF THE ‘AFRICA FORWARD' DEALS As the dust settles on the ‘Africa Forward' summit co-hosted by President William Ruto and French President Emmanuel Macron the price of Ruto's diplomatic triumph – and Macron's promise of billions in new commercial investment – is becoming clearer (AC Vol 67 No 10 Ruto strengthens hand as Nairobi summit marks Macron's African swansong)...

But buoyed by a 21 May call by President Emmanuel Macron for the symbolic repeal of France's 1685 Code Noir (governing the slave trade) the Ghanaians are talking up the consultations...

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...