Barbs against Ramaphosa's policies from President Donald J Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio were diplomatically glossed over in the hour-long speech and neither man was mentioned by name in his lengthy statement...
While Museveni attempts to repair the diplomatic damage caused by his son he will hope that a second Donald Trump presidency will lift the sanctions imposed by the US State Department last May against Parliamentary Speaker Anita Among and Finance Minister Amos Lugoloobi...
Amid uncertainty about aid and security policies a flurry of lobbying contracts with foreign governments many of them African have been filed under the US State Department's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) since Donald J Trump won the 5 November presidential election...
The latest African contract for Florida-based Ballard Partners founded by Brian Ballard a close ally of President Donald J Trump is a six-month deal with Sudan Armed Forces leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan with the $300 000 fee paid upfront in October...
DISPATCHES
South Africa is the first African country to be specifically targeted by the new United States President Donald J Trump...
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DISPATCHES
Within hours of entering the White House President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a three-month freeze on all foreign aid...
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Many African leaders believe they can do business with new US President Donald Trump despite his previous lack of interest in the continent (AC Vol 65 No 23 Leaders look for deals in the Trump marketplace)...
President Donald Trump's antipathy to China means US support for the Lobito project is likely to continue...
They were loud enough during President Donald Trump's first term and had no success then so there is no reason to expect anything more this time around...
US Exim Bank is waiting for a new board due to be appointed in January by President Donald Trump...
Vol 66 No 2 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
It is hard to imagine a more starkly different world view from the ‘America First' agenda set out by United States President Donald J Trump in his inauguration speech on the previous day in Washington DC...