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Macron declares $27bn investment fund for Africa as France seeks to ...
President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has declared a €23 billion ($27 billion) investment package aimed at boosting Africa’s energy, agriculture, digital technology and maritime sectors during a major summit in Nairobi. Speaking at the two-day Africa Forward summit hosted by Kenya, Macron said the investments would combine €14 billion, about $16.4 billion, from French public and private institutions with €9 billion, roughly $10.6 billion, from African investors. The French leader said the programme could generate up to 250,000 direct jobs across Africa and in France, as Paris attempts to reset relations with African nations after years of political and military tensions, particularly in West Africa and the Sahel. “We are not simply here to come and invest on the African continent alongside you, we need the great African business leaders to come and invest in France,” Macron told delegates at Nairobi’s convention centre. The summit brought together African heads of state, executives and investors amid intensifying competition between Europe, China and the United States for influence across Africa’s fast-growing economies and strategic mineral resources. Macron targets China’s Africa influence Macron used the gathering to position Europe as a stable economic partner for African countries amid shifting geopolitical alliances. On China’s role in Africa, Macron said Beijing operated with a “predatory logic” by processing strategic minerals domestically and creating global dependencies. France seeks reset after Sahel tensions The French president also defended France’s military engagement in the Sahel, where several governments have cut ties with Paris following military coups and rising anti-French sentiment. French troops have withdrawn from countries including Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in recent years. “When our presence was no longer wanted after the coups, we left. That wasn’t a humiliation but a logical response to a given situation," he remarked, according to The Africa Report. Macron also reignited debate over colonialism and governance in Africa ahead of the summit, arguing that former colonial powers should not bear sole responsibility for the continent’s current challenges. “We must not exonerate from all responsibility the seven decades that followed independence,” he said, while calling on African governments to strengthen governance and economic management. The summit also addressed cultural restitution as Macron said the return of ...
Macron pushes France for new Africa strategy in Kenya | Semafor
I’m in Nairobi for the highly anticipated Africa Forward Summit, cohosted by France and Kenya. I’m already finding the conversation is less about the French reclaiming influence in Africa, like many headlines have insisted, than about African countries widening their options. The summit has brought together some 30 African heads of state and hundreds of business leaders, including Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote and TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné. The talks are focused on AI, renewable energy, infrastructure, and investment rather than the security partnerships and patronage that long defined France’s post-colonial engagement on the continent.For many African governments, France under President Emmanuel Macron has become a more pragmatic partner than it was a decade ago. Since taking office in 2017, Macron has deliberately expanded France’s focus beyond its traditional Francophone sphere toward larger Anglophone economies. Nigeria is a notable example. President Bola Tinubu has built unusually warm ties with Paris, visiting France multiple times in a private and official capacity since taking office in 2023, as both governments deepen cooperation in energy and finance. Kenya’s President William Ruto has also worked more closely with France’s leadership than any of his predecessors. For African heads-of-state, the attraction is not necessarily France itself, but the ability to diversify partnerships at a moment when global powers are competing more aggressively for influence across the continent.Still, Africans know the limits of what France can offer. China remains embedded across the continent through infrastructure projects, mining developments, and state-backed financing. Gulf states can deploy capital quickly and at enormous scale. France’s comparative advantage is narrower: business networks, technical expertise, education, culture, and access to European markets.Part of the backdrop to all this is that France’s influence has sharply declined in West Africa, particularly in the Sahel, where military governments have pushed out French troops and pivoted toward Russia, for better or worse. But from the African perspective, that retrenchment may matter less than whether France can adapt to a continent that increasingly approaches global powers transactionally — weighing partners less by history or ideology than by who can deliver investment, technology, commerce, and developmental partnerships.
Macron announces €23 billion of investment at Africa summit
French President Emmanuel Macron announced €23 billion ($27 billion) of investment for Africa during a major summit on the future of the continent hosted by Kenya on Monday, May 11.
Macron announces €23 billion investment in Africa at Kenya summit
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced €23 billion investment in Africa focused on energy transition, digital and AI, the maritime economy and agriculture. Macron was attending the ...
