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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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United States President Donald Trump's three-country trip to the Gulf from 16 to 19 May did not clarify US policy towards the region's crises or its attitude towards possible mediation...
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Vol 66 No 11 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
During Mashatile's visit it emerged that France is offering full backing for South Africa's chairing of the G20 just as United States President Donald Trump is threatening to boycott the summit in November...
US President Donald J Trump's administration's proposed $555m cut to the bank's soft-loan affiliate leaves a widening funding gap (Dispatches 12/5/25 US President Trump's block on funding upends elections for bank leader)...
Maimbo was chief of staff to David Malpass who was appointed by US President Donald J Trump to run the World Bank in 2019 but was forced into early retirement in 2023 under Joe Biden's presidency...
Until a month ago the chances of President Cyril Ramaphosa getting a constructive meeting with his United States counterpart Donald J Trump appeared vanishingly small...