Activist warn the cuts will deepen this year after the shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and a three-month freeze on other aid imposed by President Donald Trump – accompanied by sharp cuts to aid budgets by many European governments (AC Vol 66 No 5 Western aid cuts reshape the geopolitical landscape)...
United States President Donald Trump's administration has proposed a budget for 2026 that would cut funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) by 34% and NIH funding by 36% for a combined total of over US$5...
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Vol 66 No 13 |
- AFRICA
- DEBT
On top of the tariffs threatened by United States President Donald Trump most African states are weighing up how to plug budget holes in education and in particular healthcare spending created by the suspension of most US aid...
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Despite leaving the G7 summit in Canada without a meeting with United States President Donald Trump South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is hoping to kickstart trade talks with Washington at next week's US-Africa Business Forum in Angola...
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President Donald Trump's senior Africa advisor Massad Fares Boulos wants a peace and security deal signed in June alongside US minerals-access agreements with both Rwanda and Congo-K (AC Vol 66 No 8 Washington tries a new push in Kinshasa)...
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But that was before funding aid and multilateral institutions came under attack primarily from United States President Donald Trump but also from European governments...
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Vol 66 No 12 |
- UNITED NATIONS
Part of the reason is that relations between United States President Donald Trump and Guterres during the president's first term were near poisonous...
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Five Democratic Congress members have sent a letter to President Donald Trump's Africa advisor Massad Boulos demanding details of the administration's deal on critical minerals that has accompanied its peacemaking between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda...
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President Donald Trump's administration has mooted merging Africom with the US military command in Europe in a cost-cutting measure that would also be seen as a sign of Washington's diminishing interest in Africa (AC Vol 66 No 6 Battle rages around the capital)...
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But President Donald Trump's government has proposed a $555 million cut to US funding for the ADF while other western shareholders are cutting their contributions to the fund by about $200m...
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