Over the past year several officials in US President Donald Trump's administration have visited Sahelian capitals arguing that what matters to them is counterterrorism...
That some of his opponents claim is why US companies especially those linked to US President Donald Trump's administration are likely to be favoured in the US$62 billion Mrima Hill concession...
The best-placed of the three US consortia is led by ReElement and Vulcan Elements whose investors include 1789 Capital a venture capital fund which US presidential son Donald Trump Jnr joined as a director shortly after his father's re-election in November 2024...
A year ago Lesotho was the target of United States President Donald Trump's asymmetric tariff campaign today Lesotho is set to benefit from the artificial intelligence boom and increased US appetite for deal-making in Africa (AC Vol 67 No 10 Pathogenically not yours)...
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The ICC was already embattled by United States President Donald Trump's administration which is urging allies to join it in withdrawing from the Rome Statute that established the Hague-based court in 2002...
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Museveni has already hired Scribe Strategies led by Joseph Szlavik a Republican with close links to President Donald Trump's White House on retainer...
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On 15 May US President Donald Trump went on social media to announce that US and Nigerian forces had killed Abu Bilal al Minuki the Islamic State commander operating in the Lake Chad basin calling him ‘the most active terrorist in the world...
The decision reflects President Donald Trump's administration's broader scepticism about multilateral funding mechanisms echoing a stance first taken by the Biden administration over the UN's Resolution 2719 cost-sharing framework...
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Looking over the Atlantic this trend is also reflected in a player of Nigerian descent – Folarin Balogun – eligible for the US team via ‘birthright citizenship' and sufficiently important to the team for President Donald Trump – despite his hostility to this citizenship route – to twist FIFA's arm into suspending the ban from Balogun's red-card to allow him to play for the US in the last 16...
The geopolitical considerations of FIFA – whose leadership is frequently accused of bending to political and financial influence whether in awarding World Cups to Qatar Russia and Saudi Arabia pandering to United States President Donald Trump or otherwise – will be crucial...
Those revisions now give President Donald Trump final authority to decide whether to impose sanctions...
