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Macron's LREM party faces difficult election choices in African constituencies

The two constituencies representing French expatriates in Africa have awakened appetites in President Emmanuel Macron's LREM party. The outgoing deputies, M'jid el-Guerrab and Amélia Lakrafi, are already working hard to keep their seats. [...]

Published on 05/02/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Khadija Gamraoui plans to bring together the diaspora's organisations

Before the run-up to the general elections in France, in which the 9th constituency of the French overseas will be hotly contested, the Franco-Moroccan elected representative Khadija Gamraoui has just created an organisation dedicated to the African diaspora.

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The French-Moroccan elected representative Khadija Gamraoui.

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Mélenchon, eyeing French presidency, plans to attack Macron on his African flank

Jean-Luc Mélenchon is increasingly using Emmanuel Macron's policies on Africa to attack the centrist leader as the clock ticks down to France's 2022 presidential election, in which the far-left firebrand has already declared himself a candidate.

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La France Insoumise leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

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Franck Riester determined to expand French business presence in Africa

French Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade Franck Riester prepares to invest in agro-technology, healthcare and fintech to boost French business in Africa.

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As presidential election nears, Macron worries of risk of politicising Operation Barkhane

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French President Emmanuel Macron (C) and Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (C-R) visit the troops of France's Barkhane counter-terrorism operation in Sahel region in Gao, northern Mali, 19 May 2017.

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African activists take leaf out of Obama/Macron campaign handbook

The days when Alpha Condé and Laurent Gbagbo would adopt the ideas of the French Parti Socialiste (PS) seem a distant memory. These days, French-speaking Africa is drawing inspiration from Barack Obama's 2008 campaign strategy, imitated and developed further by [.

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Africa
Macron's LREM party faces difficult election choices in African constituencies

Africa, France
Khadija Gamraoui plans to bring together the diaspora's organisations

France
Mélenchon, eyeing French presidency, plans to attack Macron on his African flank

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Franck Riester determined to expand French business presence in Africa

France, Sahel
As presidential election nears, Macron worries of risk of politicising Operation Barkhane

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African activists take leaf out of Obama/Macron campaign handbook