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Nigerians contrasted the lack of pomp and ceremony accorded to Buhari in Washington with the lavish receptions given to France's President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Angela Merkel...

Within a year of the law's passage EU pressure on aid-dependent Niger including a visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany prompted a wave of 'smuggler' arrests and a drastic reduction in traffic through Agadez and Dirkou northwards to Libya...

Organisational problems quickly emerged in December when President Emmanuel Macron hosted his G5 counterparts together with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy as well as United States EU and UN representatives at summit talks at La Celle Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris...

A sober debate on how to improve youth employment in sub-Saharan Africa was what the summiteers had prepared for about 10 000 delegates and over 80 European and African leaders including France's Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel...

Macron and the German chancellor Angela Merkel have made this collaboration in Africa explicit announcing an Alliance pour le Sahel during the summer...

Museveni and co are pinning their hopes on Germany's Angela Merkel – who used a G20 meeting in June to call for EPAs with a series of African regional blocs to be re-opened...

On 19 June German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised that leaders would 'speak again at the EU Africa Summit in November about how we need to renegotiate them [the EPAs]' a clear hint that the European Commission may be told to reopen the agreements...

While British politicians recover from a turbulent campaign and prepare for another election possibly inside the next twelve months German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted her much anticipated Group of Twenty Conference on Africa in Berlin on 12 June (AC Vol 58 No 11 )...

Few would have expected Africa to be the focus of Chancellor Angela Merkel's leadership of the Group of Twenty whose presidency rotates annually...

Meanwhile German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Cairo on 2 March underlines the importance that the most powerful European country attaches to its economic and political ties to Egypt...