UN Environment Summit Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/un-environment-summit/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 UN Environment Summit Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/un-environment-summit/ 32 32 Macron safari to the Horn and East Africa https://jjcornish.com/2019/03/macron-safari-to-the-horn-and-east-africa/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/03/macron-safari-to-the-horn-and-east-africa/ French President attends the UN environment summit in Nairobi at the end of  a three-nation  safari of the Horn and East Africa. He told reporters that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika decision not to run again has opened a new chapter of Algerian history. President Emmanuel Macron is the first French President to visit Djibouti since Nicolas […]

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]]> French President attends the UN environment summit in Nairobi at the end of  a three-nation  safari of the Horn and East Africa.

He told reporters that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika decision not to run again has opened a new chapter of Algerian history.

President Emmanuel Macron is the first French President to visit Djibouti since Nicolas Sarkozy was there nine years ago.

He is looking to counter the growing Chinese influence in the Horn. The People’s Liberation Army has China’s first foreign military base in Djibouti.

Macron met Ethiopia’s reformist prime minister and regional peace broker Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa.

In Kenya, he’ll talk to President Uhuru Kenyatta about infrastructural developments including the commuter rail link between the capital and the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

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