François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande

A key element in French President François Hollande's rapprochement with Algeria (which has infuriated France's traditionally closest Maghreb ally Morocco) is pushing for arms deals in the country with the largest official military budget in Africa...

In mid-July ten local activists including PWYP's national coordinator Ali Idrissa were detained on the eve of a visit by French President François Hollande for demanding full publication of the agreement...

President François Hollande has been careful to say that while France could police CAR resolving the crisis would be up to others...

The news comes just as France's President François Hollande called for 'exceptional support' for Libya which some are interpreting as a call for a new NATO military intervention...

The President was in France to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the invasion of the south coast of France by the Allies in 1944 with President François Hollande and many African dignitaries...

Disagreements have turned a distant relationship with President François Hollande into a frosty standoff with his government and there have been unprecedented misunderstandings between the security services...

President François Hollande's visit last week to Côte d'Ivoire was full of fanfares for regional security and doing business with France but behind the scenes intense manoeuvrings in all the major domestic political parties were under way...

Following President François Hollande's brief African tour this month came questions about France's development aid policy...

African countries contribute hardly at all to climate change but suffer its full effects and President François Hollande sees them as Europe's natural allies in the effort to persuade the world's big producers of greenhouse gases to sign up to serious action...

Responsibility for foreign policy is primarily shared between the President François Hollande and the Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius...