Jean-Yves Le Drian

Although he has just been released from a decade of service as one of France's most senior ministers by President Emmanuel Macron Jean-Yves Le Drian is not expected to find the time to answer the summons of the Bamako public prosecutor for interview in the Malian capital at 8 am on Monday 20 June...

Junta supporters say the Oberthur contract was won unfairly through Jean-Yves Le Drian's influence on the late President Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta (IBK) who was overthrown by Goïta and his colleagues on 18 August 2020 (AC Vol 62 No 11 Don't call it a coup)...

Soumeylou was a friend of and fellow Freemason with Jean-Yves Le Drian a fact exploited by pro-junta propagandists...

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...

Bamako expelled France's ambassador on 31 January three days after Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had dismissed the regime as illegitimate and 'out of control'...

Diop's Moscow trip comes as French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is due to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday 12 November to discuss Paris's worries about Russia's intentions in the Sahel and other issues...

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the presence of Russian mercenaries was 'incompatible with our presence' sentiments echoed by German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer though several European states including Sweden Denmark and the Netherlands would like the EU Training Mission in Mali to remain come what may...

Star of the show was French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian who presented 'on the ground' what President Macron was at the same time propounding in Cornwall England at the Group of 7 summit: the reconfiguration of Opération Barkhane France's military offensive against jihad in the Sahel (AC Vol 62 No 13 President Macron ends Opération Barkhane and dispels a few illusions)...

On 10 June France's foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian attended the inauguration of the regional anti-terrorism academy in Jacqueville Côte d'Ivoire...

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian landed in Ndjamena on 22 April going straight into talks with the junta which is led by Déby's son General 'Kaka' Mahamat Idriss Déby...

Last week Christian Cambon conservative (Les Républicains) chair of the French Senate's foreign and defence committee asked Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian: 'What is the government's plan for a day when France could pull out its troops without fearing a new earthquake...