François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande

The arrival of President François Hollande at the Elysée Palace in May 2012 has not fundamentally changed relations between Paris and Ouagadougou...

Initially French President François Hollande’s government had said that all French troops would be out after elections were organised: they are scheduled for July...

Even her former husband South African President Jacob Zuma praised French President François Hollande’s efforts to consult African leaders before launching the Mali operation...

Certainly French President François Hollande takes a careful and consultative approach...

France flies to war That is why as Malian forces were being overrun French President François Hollande responded to the request for help from Malian President Dioncounda Traoré...

Abdel Aziz withdrew his earlier pledge not to commit his own army to help Mali in a meeting with President François Hollande on 15 January...

Late last month French President François Hollande repeated that French troops were not interfering in CAR’s internal affairs: ‘Those days are over...

Both politicians in Bamako and President François Hollande’s government in France want to see the Ecowas intervention much earlier in 2013 but political and operational complexities dictate otherwise...

The Bamako government thanked French President François Hollande and his government for its intervention in northern Mali in early 2013 (AAC Vol 6 No 4) but Lu charged that in those three conflicts ‘Western powers stepped up their interference in African issues increasing the uncertainty of the African situation...

China’s President Xi Jinping welcomed French President François Hollande and his partner Valérie Trierweiler to Shanghai on 25 April...