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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...

The last-minute cancellation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit due to Bouteflika's 'temporary indisposition' on 20 February led several sources to talk of a very serious situation...

Germany whose Chancellor Angela Merkel on 31 December said that 'Islamist terrorism' was the greatest threat to her country is like Britain trying to use Khartoum to block African migration (AC Vol 57 No 6 The power struggle after Hassan el Turabi)...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's two-day visit to Bamako and Niamey on 9-10 October which coincided with the kidnapping of a United States' aid worker in Niger might prove a reality check...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Nyusi when he met her in Berlin on 19 April 'Where is the money...

The Sahel has become a priority for Berlin over the past year with Chancellor Angela Merkel despatching 650 troops to join the United Nations' peacekeeping force in Mali the Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations unies pour la stabilisation au Mali (Minusma; AC Vol 57 No 1 Tough people weak leader)...

The troops were pledged by Chancellor Angela Merkel after the 13 November terrorist attacks in Paris in part to ease the workload on the French military machine...