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NAIROBI
\n\"Macron: <\/p>\n

France’s President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference at the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa on May 13, 2026. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

\u00a0French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> acknowledged that France<\/a> has lost ground in Africa<\/a> to competitors such as China<\/a>, T\u00fcrkiye<\/a> and the U.S., blaming what he described as decades of complacency and arrogance by French institutions and companies.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the closing session of the \u201cAfrica Forward\u201d business forum, Macron said France had been \u201cshaken up in Africa\u201d over the past 25 years, describing the trend as \u201cnormal\u201d and even positive.<\/p>\n

He said French companies and administrations relied too heavily on historical ties with African countries and failed to remain competitive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey believed there was a reserved sphere where being French meant everything was automatically open,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Macron said African countries were making rational economic choices by turning to more competitive partners, highlighting the growing role of Beijing and Ankara in the continent.<\/p>\n

The French leader noted Africa no longer accepts a model based solely on aid or outside powers dictating solutions for African markets.<\/p>\n

He called for a \u201cconceptual revolution,\u201d urging France to abandon a \u201cvertical logic\u201d of simply providing aid and instead adopt a relationship based on equality and partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAIROBI France’s President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference at the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[2996,250,242,245,247,16264],"class_list":{"0":"post-72452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-emmanuel-macron","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-macron","13":"tag-trkiye"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116578949754229028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}