Vol 66 No 8 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
His intermingling of business and politics led the first Donald Trump administration to sanction him for alleged corruption in 2017...
Diaspora dismayed as Washington ‘unfriends' Juba The priorities of the Donald Trump administration appeared skewed to many observers of United States's Africa policy when Secretary of State Marco Rubio on 5 April cancelled visas for all South Sudanese nationals in retaliation for Juba's failure to accept the return of a person the US planned to deport...
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United States President Donald Trump's administration has renewed its support for Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara at a meeting in Washington with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita...
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It will benefit from the 90-day pause on the tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on 9 April (Dispatches 7/4/25 Legal battles loom over Trump's Africa tariffs)...
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Confusion reigns as officials and companies seek clarity on the timetable for the swingeing ‘reciprocal' tariffs imposed on exports to the United States by President Donald Trump on 2 April...
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The attempts to form an Africa team in President Donald Trump's administration in the United States have stalled...
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Mnangagwa and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government have been courting United States President Donald Trump's administration...
The loss of aid funding from the United States after President Donald Trump's plan to cut the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is a further blow...
The choice of the United States's new Ambassador to Pretoria – Leo Brent Bozell III – dispels any notion that President Donald Trump's administration might dial down its position on South Africa having claimed its first scalp in the form of declaring African National Congress loyalist Ebrahim Rasool ‘persona non grata' as ambassador to Washington DC...
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France's TotalEnergies had offered the lobbyists a bonus if they could secure Eximbank's approval for the loan before Donald Trump was sworn in...
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US LOBBYISTS PUSH CRITICAL MINERALS FOR SECURITY DEALS In a Central African version of the new wave of transactional politics Congolese politicians have been hiring Washington lobbyists to persuade President Donald Trump's administration to back President Félix Tshisekedi by offering access to critical minerals and the deepwater port at Banana on Congo-K's Atlantic coast (Dispatches 25/2/25 Tshisekedi inks lobbying deal to bag minerals deal with Trump)...