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...
Vol 67 No 14 |
- FOOTBALL
- AFRICA
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...
The suspension of duties on phosphate fertiliser imported from Morocco by US President Donald Trump's administration is the latest in a series of lucrative quid pro quos between Washington and Rabat...
The memorandum of understanding digitally signed by United States President Donald Trump and Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on 18 June was welcomed in most world capitals as the end of a devastating conflict...
Some visitors told the East African that they see new opportunities in United States President Donald Trump's tenure to progress a conservative social agenda...
President Donald Trump's priorities are to get Beijing to extend its year-long moratorium on restrictions on rare earth exports and agree to a multi-billion dollar increase in purchases of US agricultural commodities...
DISPATCHES
Instead President Donald Trump has invested significant powers in his senior African envoy Massad Boulos who has led the US's push for greater access to critical minerals and brokered the fragile peace agreement between Rwanda and Congo-Kinshasa...
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Vol 67 No 12 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Pivotal playThe key foreign policy play of Tshisekedi's presidency is the deal with United States President Donald Trump...