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Goldman Sachs has positioned itself as the trade whisperer to United States President Donald J Trump holding talks with several African leaders including South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa about trade and improving relations with the US...
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Already one of the president's most powerful appointees due to the vast funds he oversees Adedeji's role becomes even more critical as dwindling oil prices exacerbated by Donald Trump's trade war force Nigeria to rely on stricter tax enforcement...
This shift is part of the fallout from the US tariff hikes which have been more severe than expected before President Donald Trump's inauguration on 20 January (Dispatches 28/1/25 Rubio deals hammer blow to US aid & 22/4/25 Western aid spending heads towards the cliff-edge as US cuts bite)...
Ruto's trip hailed as a diplomatic coup for China in its efforts to expand influence in Africa amid trade tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump also delivered significant gains for Beijing...
‘The post-war multilateral system is broken dysfunctional and no longer fit for purpose ' said Ruto as he criticised both the Donald Trump tariff wars and the global ‘financial and security architecture'...
The European Commission plans to ‘diversify' relations with its trading partners as it faces the reality of United States President Donald J Trump imposing tariffs of 25% on its cars steel and aluminium and 10% on all other goods...
Many Cameroonians travel via Latin America crossing the southern US border illegally a contentious issue for the US President Donald Trump's administration...
Echoing the Mnangagwa's courting of the United States administration Mutsvangwa compared Tagwirei's role to Elon Musk working for President Donald Trump...
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Vol 66 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Cyril Ramaphosa also won a boost from keeping the fractious coalition together on 25 and was able to tell South Africans about a planned meeting with United States President Donald Trump to resolve the rumbling diplomatic differences between the two countries...
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Vol 66 No 9 |
- AFRICA
- OECD
- AID
African states are already counting the cost of the three-month suspension to most USAID programs and the shuttering of the agency itself by US President Donald Trump (Dispatches 28/1/25 Rubio deals hammer blow to US aid)...
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For all the talk of reform a slump in oil prices and the looming threat of 32% trade tariffs from United States President Donald Trump – one of the highest rates facing an African country – could deal a hammer blow to Lourenço's reform plans (Dispatches 7/4/25 Legal battles loom over Trump's Africa tariffs )...