{"id":626,"date":"2026-05-11T19:42:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:42:53","slug":"macron-always-been-a-strong-believer-in-the-importance-of-africa-as-a-partner-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Macron always been a strong believer in the importance of Africa as a partner for the future&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yinka Oyetade is pleased to welcome Paul Melly, Consulting Fellow of the Africa Programme, Chatham House. Emmanuel Macron is co-hosting the Africa Forward Summit in Kenya, the first time France has staged such a gathering in an English-speaking African nation. this comes on the heels of France\u2019s unprecedented strategic setbacks across the Sahel. Melly argues that France\u2019s eastward diplomatic turn is not merely an attempt to \u201cbounce back\u201d after recent reversals, but the continuation of a longer strategic project launched early in Macron\u2019s presidency: one designed to \u201crebalance in geographical terms France\u2019s engagement with the entire continent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yinka Oyetade is pleased to welcome Paul Melly, Consulting Fellow of the Africa Programme, Chatham House. Emmanuel Macron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}