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  • Affairs
  • Episode 3865
  • 12 May 2026
  • 58 min

Macron turns on the charm at the Africa Forward Summit as Paris eyes a regional reset

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  • The Globalist
  • Affairs
  • Episode 3865
  • 58 min

Emmanuel Macron has kicked off his Kenya visit with a jog through Nairobi and cooking ugali as the Africa Forward Summit is hosted by an Anglophone country for the first time. After a series of setbacks in western parts of the continent, is Paris flexing softer diplomacy in Africa? 

Host
  • Chris Cermak
Contributors
  • Desiree Bandli
  • Fernando Augusto Pacheco
  • Laura Kramer
  • Lily Austin
  • Ryuma Takahashi
  • Steph Chungu

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