François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande

Diplomatic and security cooperation is underpinning this commercial push: President François Hollande called Dos Santos last month to offer more French backing for the Conférence internationale sur la région des Grands Lacs which Angola's President currently chairs...

President François Hollande cancelled the visit to Kigali of his Justice Minister Christiane Taubira...

In a letter to French President François Hollande Frank Ruddy the former Deputy Chairman of Minurso and Peter Van Walsum the former Special Representative of the then UN Secretary General Kofi Anan called for what they describe as vital action to defuse tensions in the territory which was occupied by Morocco in 1975...

' Star turnsThe European star turns were French President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel who stood together to announce that in Hollande's words just as France and Germany were central to driving forward European policy they could also 'drive the alliance with Africa'...

Now EU governments are helping with technical aspects and stand ready to do much more – in December President François Hollande offered a massive French programme of peacekeeper-training...

The few hours that President François Hollande spent in Bangui on 1 March were intended to prove that the capital was now quiet almost back to normal...

Two years ago French President François Hollande commented in Dakar that too little attention had been paid in the talks to the position of African countries...

Later at a summit hosted by France's President François Hollande on 6-7 December African heads of state qualified trafficking in endangered species as a 'threat to peace and security in Africa and worldwide' alongside terrorism the illicit drugs trade and human trafficking...

The event also marked a stage in scaling down France's Opération Serval which has not been as rapid as President François Hollande had hoped...

Especially enthusiastic were the two leaders most influential in CAR President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville (whom President François Hollande telephoned directly) and Chad's President Idriss Déby Itno...