As Africa Confidential went to press speculation was rife among Sudan activists in the United States that outgoing US President Barack Obama might ease sanctions on Sudan before his successor Donald Trump takes over on 20 January...
The party used crowd-funding techniques pioneered by the Barack Obama presidential campaign in the USA in 2008 such as 'adopt a constituency' in which contributors would be asked to give at least 500 cedis (US$122) to fund the party organisation in the most competitive constituencies...
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Al Shabaab joins the US rogues' gallery President Barack Obama formally declared Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen an enemy on 27 November according to an authoritative report in the New York Times...
Symbion which had been hoping to expand its Tanzanian business under US President Barack Obama's Power Africa initiative maintains that in December 2015 it signed a new 15-year agreement with Tanesco which Tanesco denies...
Given the poisonous relations between outgoing US President Barack Obama and Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu this looks ill-judged...
' Jammeh in DCGambian civil society activists and the vocal anti-Jammeh lobby in the United States winced at photographs of the Jammehs being hosted by President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle at the White House in June 2014...
Always keen to build up the image of Dos Santos as a statesman the official media trumpeted United States President Barack Obama's invitation to an entrepreneurship conference in Washington in September...
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Africa Confidential can also reveal that a former National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama has a security contract with Katumbi the leading opposition contender for the Congolese presidency...
US President Barack Obama has been extensively lobbied to reverse the extended Minurso plan – but in Morocco as in other Middle Eastern monarchies he is little trusted...
A new report from the United States-based Africa-focussed Enough Project proposes that President Barack Obama's government should use a similar range of finely tuned financial and technical sanctions against Sudan to that used against Iran to push it into serious negotiations...
