French president contributes €50m to forests and biodiversity initiative but who pays for the rest remains unclear
Elizabeth Pineau
“We need to have cash on the table and concrete actions,” Macron said in a speech on the first full day of a four-nation Africa tour. The summit in Gabon follows disagreements over funds for protecting forests at the UN’s biodiversity summit in Montreal last December, reports say. Spiralling insecurity there has spurred military takeovers in Mali and Burkina Faso, two hotbeds of jihadist activity, whose ruling juntas have butted heads with France, as well as with other regional and Western allies.
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