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Vol 66 No 8 |

CONGO-KINSHASA
UNITED STATES

Washington tries a new push in Kinshasa

18th April 2025

President Trump’s special advisor is testing transactional diplomacy amid the conflict and the continent’s biggest reserves of critical minerals

Washington’s latest intervention in Kinshasa, led by Massad Fares Boulos, senior advisor to United States President Donald Trump, is disrupting the calculations of Congolese politicians and warlords. Boulos,...

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Vol 66 No 8 |

CONGO-KINSHASA
UNITED STATES

How Trump’s in-law shut down the Kinshasa lobbyists

18th April 2025

After meeting the US President’s senior Africa envoy, President Tshisekedi has blocked millions of dollars’ worth of consultancy deals

After agreeing contracts with a string of K-Street lobby shops worth close to US$8 million with mandate to broker a mineral access deal with US President Donald Trump’s...

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Vol 66 No 8 |

MOROCCO
UNITED STATES

Washington backs Rabat on Western Sahara, setting up clash with UN mission on territory’s sovereignty

14th April 2025

King Mohammed VI secures US backing as risks mount of clashes with Polisario and Algeria

United States President Donald Trump’s administration has renewed its support for Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara at a meeting in Washington with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. US...

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Vol 66 No 8 |

MADAGASCAR
UNITED STATES

African textiles industry faces major job losses as Trump tariffs hit home

14th April 2025

Facing penalties on its exports of vanilla and textiles Madagascar could lose 2% of its GDP this year

One of the world’s weakest economies, with a GDP per capita of US$509 a year, Madagascar was threatened with a 47% tariff on goods exports to the United...

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Vol 66 No 8 |

UNITED STATES
AFRICA

Legal battles loom over Trump’s Africa tariffs

7th April 2025

Some officials insist the AGOA trade preference scheme will take precedence over the President’s executive order until September

Confusion reigns as officials and companies seek clarity on the timetable for the swingeing ‘reciprocal’ tariffs imposed on exports to the United States by President Donald Trump on...

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Vol 66 No 7 |

SOUTH AFRICA
UNITED STATES

Pretoria picks new envoy for the MAGA minefield

27th March 2025

President Ramaphosa wants to soothe tensions with the Trump administration but Washington has appointed a hard-liner to South Africa

The choice of the United States’s new Ambassador to Pretoria – Leo Brent Bozell III – dispels any notion that President Donald J Trump’s administration might dial down...

Vol 66 No 7 |

GHANA
UNITED STATES

Populist Agyapong loses $18 million in defamation battle

4th April 2025

Investigative journalist Anas chalks up an historic win in New Jersey court against New Patriotic Party presidential contender

A United States court has awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas US$18 million in damages, including $8m in punitive damages, after ruling that populist former New Patriotic...

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Vol 66 No 7 |

UNITED STATES
AFRICA

The Trump tariffs on 2 April will call time on the AGOA free trade bill

31st March 2025

Loss of trade concessions will marginalise the US as a market for many African exporters

The round of tariffs due to be imposed by the United States across the world on 2 April signals the end of the African Growth and Opportunity Act...

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Vol 66 No 7 |

MOZAMBIQUE
UNITED STATES

Clashing with America First policy, US Eximbank makes biggest loan ever to France’s TotalEnergies

24th March 2025

Lambasted by Trump supporters, the US credit bank may help Exxon Mobil mega gas project in Cabo Delgado

Initially TotalEnergies’ use of Washington lobbyists to push through a vital US loan for its US$20 billion gas export project in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province backfired. France’s TotalEnergies...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

Targeted by Trump – Africa and Europe draw closer

17th March 2025

Washington’s tariffs, visa bans and aid cuts are pushing Brussels and Pretoria into a stronger partnership

As the new United States administration targets South Africa on policy and the European Union on tariffs, it has triggered an opposite reaction – bringing President Cyril Ramaphosa...

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