{"id":193478,"date":"2025-03-13T19:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/east-africa-macron-in-djibouti-and-ethiopia-is-there-anything-new-in-frances-approach-to-the-horn-of-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:01:05","slug":"east-africa-macron-in-djibouti-and-ethiopia-is-there-anything-new-in-frances-approach-to-the-horn-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/east-africa-macron-in-djibouti-and-ethiopia-is-there-anything-new-in-frances-approach-to-the-horn-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Macron in Djibouti and Ethiopia: Is There Anything New in France&#8217;s Approach to the Horn of Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><em>Key Takeaways<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>France is struggling to maintain its traditional influence in West and Central Africa. As a result, Paris is exploring opportunities to expand its presence in the East and South of the continent. This shift reflects the \u00c9lys\u00e9e&#8217;s effort to adapt to evolving geopolitical shifts in the continent.<\/li>\n<li>So far, there is no clear indication of a major shift in France&#8217;s approach to the Horn of Africa. This approach still focuses on security more than economic engagement as a fundamental lever&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130425.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways France is struggling to maintain its traditional influence in West and Central Africa. As a result, Paris is exploring opportunities to expand its presence in the East and South of the continent. This shift reflects the \u00c9lys\u00e9e&#8217;s effort to adapt to evolving geopolitical shifts in the continent. So far, there is no clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,10111,4701,568,6719,4716,20656,7150,10577,257,254],"class_list":["post-193478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approach","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-east","tag-ethiopia","tag-frances","tag-horn","tag-macron","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}