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Expected in Paris on 14-15 September for a regional security conference President Muhammadu Buhari will attend a series of bilateral meetings with President François Hollande Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian and the presidential Africa Advisor Hélène le Gal...

The deal – which involves the French shipbuilding company Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie – was one of the subjects Nyusi discussed with President François Hollande during his visit to France in late July we hear...

The PM is said to have seen Commerce Minister Benyounes as a potential threat to his succession ambitions while he also reportedly fell out with Abdeslam Bouchouareb over the powerful Industry and Mines Minister's promotion of investments by French motor giants Renault and Peugeot (enthusiastically backed by President François Hollande) – suggesting this month's changes are due to a range of motivations...

Samba-Panza is due to meet French President François Hollande this week...

Déby was expected in Paris on 14 May to lobby President François Hollande to support Bedoumra's candidacy...

M6 and French President François Hollande may loathe each other but they need each other too...

A return to judicial intelligence and other co-operation judged essential in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks allowed the monarch to overcome his loathing – apparently mutual – and see President François Hollande at the Elysée Palace during a 'private visit'...

A glitzy Algerian investment conference in London on 10 December matched by initiatives from Paris (where President François Hollande has been overt in his enthusiasm for 'fellow Socialist' Algiers) and other Western capitals show how keen business is to get a slice of the country's $200 billion hard currency reserves as well as its conventional and non-conventional (shale) hydrocarbon potential...

The United States made similar noises and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and President François Hollande followed suit...

As the political struggle intensified this week a letter from François Hollande to Compaoré emerged in which Paris had offered to back him for a senior international position should he leave quietly...