The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has pledged to invite young Africans rather than their political leaders to a key France-Africa summit in a video call with the actor Idris Elba. Macron also announced that he would increase France’s contribution to the International Fund for Agricultural Development from €57.8m to €86.7m. “A lot of countries have this kind of summit … post-Covid we thought about how to completely change this summit, build something new. They will decide what they want.”He said it was important to include the young from Africa and particularly the African diaspora in the fight to save the world’s biodiversity. “We made a very important work on the African diaspora in France.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2021 14:36 UTC