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Vol 65 No 7 |

General Tiani swaps the US for Russia

27th March 2024

Annulling its defence agreements with Washington, the Niamey junta strengthens ties with Moscow and Tehran

Severing military ties with the United States on 16 March, three months after France closed its embassy in Niamey, General Abdourahamane Tiani's Conseil national pour la sauvegarde...

Vol 65 No 4 |

Kanu's lobbyists for Biafra step up campaign

9th February 2024

The separatist leader refused to appear in court in Abuja on 8 February but has more wealthy supporters in Washington DC

The campaign for a 'Jewish Autonomous Region in Biafra' is trying to boost its profile after hiring new lobbyists in the United States. Its backers hope to rekindle the political a...

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Vol 65 No 3 |

UNITED STATES
AFRICA

US Secretary of State Blinken tours West Africa amid rising security worries

23rd January 2024

Trip will focus on building relations, trade and democracy promotion after spate of coups

African states in the Sahel and the Horn are facing their worst security crises for decades but United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will skate around those regions on h...

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Vol 65 No 3 |

UNITED STATES
AFRICA

Biden's man moves on

1st February 2024

United States President Joe Biden will lose his main Africa policy advisor, as Judd Devermont quits his position as Biden's special assistant on African affairs. Devermont, who was...

Vol 65 No 2 |

RWANDA
UNITED STATES

Kigali taps US hacker for new fight with Rusesabagina

5th January 2024

Security services in Rwanda are working with a self-described 'white-hat hacker' to take down their foes

Hostilities are reopening between the security services in Kigali and 'Hotel Rwanda' activist Paul Rusesabagina after their agreement in March 2023. Under the deal Rusesabagina's 2...

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Vol 64 No 23 |

UNITED STATES
AFRICA

Despite the sceptics, Washington prolongs the AGOA trade deal

9th November 2023

The summit in South Africa on the African Growth and Opportunity Act kept the arrangement going in the face of multiple policy differences

Almost a year after US President Joe Biden's Africa summit, policy-makers in Washington and Africa wanted to keep the landmark multilateral trade agreement going as economic pressu...

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Vol 64 No 22 |

LIBYA
UNITED STATES

Murky waters around Tobruk

2nd November 2023

Eyebrows have been raised in Washington DC by the lobbying contract filed in October between the Libyan House of Representatives, now based in Benghazi, and K-Street outfit Vogel G...

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Vol 64 No 20 |

EGYPT
UNITED STATES

US senator moves to block military aid to Egypt over rights abuses

4th October 2023

New chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee calls for Cairo to improve governance and rule of law

The decision on 30 September of United States' Senator Ben Cardin, the new chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to threaten to block military aid for Egypt re-opens the...

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Vol 64 No 20 |

CAMEROON
UNITED STATES

Ambazonia's campaign gets a new Scribe

4th October 2023

Separatist leader Anu Fobeneh hires Washington lobbyists as conflict with government forces drags on

Cameroon's Anglophone separatist movement, the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, to step up its lobbying campaign in the United States, after contracting Scribe Strategies & Advis...

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Vol 64 No 17 |

ETHIOPIA
UNITED STATES

Abiy looks west

24th August 2023

Pushing ahead with a pro-market reform programme as it tries to restructure its foreign debts and secure a loan from the IMF, Abiy Ahmed's government is fighting on many fronts. Co...

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