FRANCE-SENEGAL-DIPLOMACY

Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour (C) performs on stage under a screen displaying a picture of late South African President Nelson Mandela, flanked by Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar (2nd L), Chadian President Idriss Deby (3rd L), French President Emmanuel Macron (4th L), Senegalese President Macky Sall (5th L), Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou (4th R), Burkinabe President Roch Marc Christian Kabore (5th R) during the conference "GPE Financing Conference, an Investment in the Future" organised by the Global Partnership for Education in Dakar on February 2, 2018, as part of Macron's visit to Senegal. Macron is co-hosting with the Senegalese president a conference organised by the Global Partnership for Education, aimed at pressuring donors to finance the education of a quarter of a billion children worldwide who are currently out of school. / AFP PHOTO / ludovic MARIN (Photo credit should read LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)