The pressure is mounting on Massad Boulos senior Africa advisor to United States President Donald Trump after the latest setback to his efforts to corral Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda into a peace and security agreement underwritten by a mining accord...
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The risk as with US President Donald J Trump's tariffs is that the Congolese government and affected companies come to negotiate opaque deals with under the counter benefits for both sides which would worsen already chronic corruption (AC Vol 66 No 4 Washington tries a new push in Kinshasa)...
After Africa Confidential reported Beach's Congolese projects in June (AC Vol 66 No 14 Trump family allies broker security and mining deals in Central Africa) he has given a lengthy interview to the Wall Street Journal describing his close ties with presidential scion Donald Trump Jnr and their ‘mutual destruction' pact...
Vol 66 No 20 |
- AFRICA
- ISLAMISM
This shift reflects distracted western militaries failed state-building policies and domestic political pressures that began even before US President Donald Trump's administration sharply cut budgets for aid and diplomacy...
Bendler was hired by BGR Group one of the most prominent lobby shops in Washington DC and particularly close to US President Donald Trump's administration...
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The funding shortage is in large part the result of an impasse after US President Donald Trump's administration vetoed UN Security Council Resolution 2719 which would have allowed it to cover up to 75% of costs for AU-led peacekeeping operations with the remaining 25% coming from voluntary contributions such as the EU (AC Vol 66 No 14 Politicians seek a way out of the impasse)...
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After meeting Gen Burhan in Zurich on 11 August US President Donald Trump's Senior Africa Advisor Massad Boulos has not met any senior RSF representatives but he did meet with key Hemeti ally the UAE's Vice-President and National Security Advisor Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan shortly afterwards...
Some cite a recent New York Times investigation showing the UAE's extraordinary financial generosity towards US President Donald J Trump and his envoy at large real estate magnate Steve Witkoff...
The US under President Donald Trump has made critical mineral access a condition of investments and in some cases of diplomatic engagement with African states...
The UN tax convention project is anathema to the administration of United States President Donald Trump which took over on 20 January...
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President Cyril Ramaphosa faces crunch trade talks with United States President Donald Trump's administration next week with talks expected on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York that starts today...
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A trip has been made easier by President Salva Kiir's decision to accept United States deportees after President Donald Trump threatened to revoke all visas for South Sudanese...
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