Kenya is seeking to offset the impact of new US tariffs set at 10% in its case imposed by President Donald Trump...
It coincided with Trade Minister Parks Tau's efforts to renegotiate a 30% tariff imposed on South African exports by United States President Donald Trump's administration (AC Vol 66 No 16 Tariff calamity deepens rift with Washington)...
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Uganda's agreement to accept deported migrants from the United States as long as they don't have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors is the latest success in President Donald Trump's efforts to persuade African states to accept third-country deportees...
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Kenya has signalled its intentions to kickstart talks with United States President Donald Trump's administration on a trade deal by signing a US$2...
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President Donald Trump's administration has indicated that it wants to have a peace deal or at least progress to announce ahead of the UN General Assembly that starts on 9 September...
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But negotiations are complicated by political demands from President Donald Trump which – though not formally part of trade talks – are driving Washington's hardline stance...
In most cases President Donald Trump has targeted countries with large trade surpluses with the United States in line with his aim to slash the trade deficit...
Compounding the situation is United States President Donald Trump's closure of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) earlier this year ending one of the main international sources of funding technical support and grain supplies (AC Vol 66 No 5 Western aid cuts reshape the geopolitical landscape)...
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Somaliland's President Abdirahman Mahamed Abdullahi Irro is the latest African leader to appeal to US President Donald Trump's transactional instincts by offering Washington a military base on the Red Sea and access to critical minerals...
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That follows the pattern of the United States aid cuts and shuttering of USAID announced by President Donald Trump earlier this year with the main cuts being to health and education (AC Vol 66 No 13 Development finance implodes with rich countries shifting to military budgets)...
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