Laurent Fabius

Ayrault is more personally concerned with Africa than his predecessor, Laurent Fabius, who preferred to leave Africa to Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian...

He also implied that Zinsou was not qualified to lead his country because he once wrote speeches for France's then-Prime Minister Laurent Fabius...

He then taught at the Ecole nationale d'administration, the training ground for the French governing elite, and worked as a speechwriter in the 1980s for France's then Prime Minister, Laurent Fabius (who recently stepped down as Foreign Minister)...

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...

In March, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius visited Ndjamena to congratulate him on his military campaign against Boko Haram and promised French support for extensive debt-forgiveness by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank...

French ministers including Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius have hurried in the other direction since...

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

Few think the Paris negotiations will produce the legally binding treaty that French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says is essential to address the crisis...

The most recent chapter of the saga begins with Samba-Panza's telephone call on 1 August to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius informing him she was going to appoint Abdou Karim Meckassoua Prime Minister (AC Vol 52 No 18, Making calls on the state)...

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius were also prominent in the delegation and Hollande also used the occasion to announce the end of the Licorne force, deployed in Côte d'Ivoire since September 2002 and which played a key role in overthrowing President Laurent Gbagbo (AC Vol 52 No 18, Gbagbo: France's part in his downfall)...

Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius regularly speak to their African counterparts...