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France pitches ‘partnership of equals’ as African summit enters second day

Ahead of the second day of the Africa Forward summit, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that it had raised 23 billion euros in investment on the continent. As France pitches a ‘partnership of equals’ with African countries, it aims to distance itself from its neocolonial past. This comes as it completes a military withdrawal from West African countries, which has been seen as a sign of its declining influence on the continent. FRANCE 24’s Tom Canetti tells us more on what to expect from this second day from Nairobi.

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