Both the Liberty Corridor and Lobito Corridor the twin US flagship responses by the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations to Chinese corridor investment have struggled to be independent from Chinese firms or finance...
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They reflect the US administration's anger at Rwanda's backsliding on the ‘Washington Accords' supposed to be a peace deal brokered by President Donald Trump that would end M23/RDF's incursions into eastern Congo (AC Vol 66 No 25 Trump's peace deal unravels as M23 seizes strategic eastern city)...
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SOUTH AFRICA/RWANDA/US: Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Paul Kagame are bracing for the economic cost of US President Donald Trump's decision to end their countries' access to the African Growth and Opportunity Act on 2 November...
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Vol 67 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize sharpens the focus on international justice as United States President Donald Trump's administration moves to restrict the financial and technological infrastructure supporting the International Criminal Court...
Piqued by being denied the prize to which he believes he is entitled Donald Trump described Pillay's award as ‘disgraceful' and that ‘the Nobel committee had shamed itself beyond repair and demeaned the once great Nobel Peace Prize'...
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Amid criticism from United States President Donald Trump Britain's Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said ‘this deal as it is currently constituted can't go ahead without American support...
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But the finance from Washington's DFC to Canada's Global Atomic flies in the face of the continuing rhetorical battle triggered by their trade war between US President Donald Trump and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney...
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Facilitating the deals has been Abuja's Washington lobbyists DCI Group and consultant Roger Stone a former close associate of President Donald Trump...
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Vol 67 No 18 |
- MOROCCO
- SPAIN
Rabat claims sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla and may feel emboldened by the support for its claim from some United States politicians close to President Donald Trump (AC Vol 67 No 17 Mohammed VI faces a turnout test)...
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It shows the turnaround in relations between Rabat and Washington since the start of the second Donald Trump administration in January 2025...
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He deleted social media posts trumpeting his appointment to a presidential commission by US President Donald Trump after allies of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu dismissed the relevance of the role as irrelevant to US-Nigeria relations...
