The Belgian President of the European Council Charles Michel and French President Emmanuel Macron who is the current chair of the EU's six-month rotating presidency have focused their preparatory meetings for the summit almost exclusively on Africa's Francophone leaders...

Like the UN Secretary General António Guterres France's President Emmanuel Macron has condemned the coup but is reluctant to play a significant role given widespread hostility against France's presence in the region...

Key ally French President Emmanuel Macron has not forgotten reports that Moroccan security services used Israeli Pegasus spyware (possibly with UAE backing) to target his phone (AC Vol 62 No 16 Spy chiefs on manoeuvres)...

It will be difficult for French President Emmanuel Macron to concede this point...

Facing a tough re-election race in April President Emmanuel Macron is trying to reassure French voters that he's serious on migration and security...

Kaboré – who met with President Emmanuel Macron President Bazoum and interim Chadian leader Mahamat Déby on the margins of the Libya conference in Paris on 12 November – was comfortably re-elected last year...

Despite hosting a new-style dialogue with activists and artists and attending a commemoration in Paris for a long hushed-up 1961 massacre of Algerian demonstrators Emmanuel Macron's overhauling of relations with former African colonies has encountered more protests and criticism...

Paying for a faux pas In commemorating the October 1961 killings of at least 120 Algerian protestors at the hands of Paris police Emmanuel Macron took a big step in the official French recognition of past wrongs...

After a phone call between Saïed and France's President Emmanuel Macron on 2 October the Elysée Palace referred to the opening of political dialogue in Tunisia...