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They have singled out the role of US ambassador in Geneva President Donald Trump appointee Andrew Bremberg who accuses Tedros of bias towards China...

Despite President Donald Trump's antipathy towards anti-corruption laws there have been several high-profile prosecutions for corporate crime since he took over the presidency in 2017...

Finance experts in Washington say that today's US government under President Donald Trump would be unlikely to underwrite it in the way that Ronald Reagan's government backed the Brady Bonds in the 1980s but that the World Bank and IMF might jointly guarantee the bonds with US consent...

No doubt without intending to United States President Donald Trump succeeded in dissolving many differences between the World Health Organisation and the pre-eminent US public health institution the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) when he cancelled funding for the WHO and pointed an accusing finger at Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for his role in the global pandemic (AC Vol 61 No 8 The war for the cure)...

But relations with the US government nosedived after Donald Trump's election in 2016 and on 14 April he announced the US would cut its contribution to WHO immediately while its handling of the pandemic was investigated...

Matters were not helped by a public dispute between Adesina and David Malpass the President of the World Bank who was nominated by US President Donald Trump...

US officials and Malpass who was nominated for the World Bank presidency by President Donald Trump have cautioned African governments about spiralling debt and Washington's antipathy to another round of debt relief...

But World Bank President David Malpass nominated by Donald Trump last year favours tougher conditions on credits or debt moratoriums...

The next day President Donald Trump called China's President Xi Jinping saying that he had 'much respect' for the country...

While disclosing US plans on 18 February for unspecified 'substantial financial support' for Abiy's government US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo privately asked Abiy to accept the 'final agreement' after President Donald Trump asked the same we hear...

The high profile given to the negotiations reflects the close ties between Presidents Donald Trump and Egypt's Abdel Fattah el Sisi...