Jean-Yves Le Drian and Florence Parly so familiar to West African capitals for the past five years as the ministers of foreign affairs and the armed forces have departed office in President Emmanuel Macron's post-re-election reshuffle...

Last year France's President Emmanuel Macron called for at least $100bn worth of SDRs allocated to rich countries to be transferred to African economies as loans or grants...

Emmanuel Macron who has been called France's 'first post-colonial president' is bidding for re-election after a first term in which colonial history cast a long shadow on policies ranging from climate change job creation and migration to regional security...

Nationalist politicians in Bamako complain that President Emmanuel Macron should have gone further and pressured Tuareg groups to accept the presence of the Malian army in the former separatist redoubt in Kidal under the terms of the Algiers accord (AC Vol 63 No 6 Danger looms for the UN in Mali)...

Initially France's President Emmanuel Macron maintained amicable relations with Saïed on security and regional strategy but its foreign ministry officials have grown more critical of the lurch towards authoritarianism...

Abiy was given similar advice at February's EU-AU Summit in Brussels where European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron encouraged dialogue as a matter of urgency...

The incident also diverted attention from Touadéra's performance in Brussels after the African Union (AU)-European Union (EU) summit having failed to meet President Emmanuel Macron or key EU officials to obtain the release of funds for his government...

Rwanda's military role in Mozambique is popular in Brussels and Paris and President Emmanuel Macron wants to consolidate France's reconciliation with Kagame...

At a working dinner with European and other African leaders on the eve of the summit they redrafted the anti-jihadist strategy announced in July by Emmanuel Macron with Bazoum at his side (AC Vol 62 No 15 Macron's man)...

These are the details that were due to be worked out on 16 February when President Emmanuel Macron hosted the presidents of G5 Sahel members Mauritania Niger and Chad Mohamed Ould Ghazouani Mohamed Bazoum and Mahamat Déby...

Redirecting SDRs to Africa has been a pet project for France's President Emmanuel Macron...