France
Who's advising right-wing presidential hopeful Valérie Pécresse on Africa?

The president of the Ile-de-France regional council Valérie Pécresse and the Senegalese president Macky Sall in Dakar in 2019.
The president of the Ile-de-France regional council Valérie Pécresse and the Senegalese president Macky Sall in Dakar in 2019. © Papa Matar Diop/Présidence Sénégal/Flickr
The candidate for Les Republicains plans to visit Senegal in the coming weeks and has tasked her campaign team with drawing up a policy for Africa, a continent her father knows well. [...]
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