Mercury which says it is bipartisan works for a range of entities and governments some close to US President Donald Trump's administration and some of which have been targeted for sanctions (See Box Quicksilver influencers)...
Mercury's campaign for Kanu has chalked up successes persuading US Senators Joni Ernst and Kelly Loeffler to write to President Donald Trump to assert that there is state-backed persecution of Christians in Nigeria and to consider sanctions against the leadership in Abuja...
Cairo however will argue that President Abdel Fatteh el Sisi's close relations with US President Donald Trump favours their choice especially when US-Nigeria relations have hit a new low...
The fallout from United States President Donald Trump's decision on 29 May to 'terminate today any relationship with the World Health Organisation' seems to be minimal and may not even happen in the end...
A jovial President Donald Trump pledged $1...
They have singled out the role of US ambassador in Geneva President Donald Trump appointee Andrew Bremberg who accuses Tedros of bias towards China...
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- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
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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...