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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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Vol 66 No 6 |

Trump administration pulls plug on green energy deal

10th March 2025

International support for South Africa’s renewable plans will on the agenda at EU summit

In line with his opposition to renewable energy projects, President Donald J Trump’s decision to revoke and rescind the United States International Climate Finance Plan will mean cancelling...

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Vol 66 No 5 |

UNITED STATES
HORN OF AFRICA

US retreat opens door to Chinese and Russian influence

7th March 2025

Trump’s swingeing aid cuts will accelerate decline of US soft power in this heavily contested region

Washington’s 90-day freeze on humanitarian and development programmes is escalating into a full-scale withdrawal undercutting United States’ influence, especially in the Horn of Africa wracked by multiple conflicts...

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Vol 66 No 5 |

KENYA
UNITED STATES

Why Washington’s aid freeze could cost tens of thousands of lives and livelihoods

3rd March 2025

Almost 40,000 people working on HIV-AIDS prevention have been put on unpaid leave and free drugs treatment stopped

The follow-on effects of the United States’ foreign aid freeze are set to include patients with HIV/AIDs and tuberculosis in Kenya. Those patients will now have to pay...

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Vol 66 No 5 |

UNITED STATES
AFRICA

AGOA no longer?

25th February 2025

Washington has shifted focus, leaving 33 African states uncertain about future trade prospects but creating an opportunity for China

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which offers tariff and quota-free United States trade for 33 African states, looks set to follow the United States Agency for...

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