African governments hoping for an easy ride from President Donald Trump's government got a reality check when on 13 July the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in the Presidency summoned Uganda's Trade Minister Amelia Anne Kyambadde and an East African Community (EAC) delegation to a three-hour public hearing...
Few expect Africa to be a priority for President Donald Trump in view of his determination to put 'America First'...
In late December having been tipped off by Iancu Costel a consultant based in Romania that Sassou was heading to Palm Beach Florida hoping to meet with the then President-elect Donald Trump Abramoff cut short his own Christmas holiday...
Jubilee has again hired London-based consultants BTP Advisers and is said to be using the services of Cambridge Analytica who claim a big role in the outcome of Britain's referendum on the European Union and Donald Trump's victory in the USA'...
It remains to be seen whether President Donald Trump's government follows suit...
Vol 58 No 12 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
A new gas production project due to start by the end of the year might relieve some of the gloom and President Abdel Fatah el Sisi's relentless glad-handing with regional leaders and his United States counterpart Donald Trump has helped to secure billions of aid dollars unavailable to any other African economy...
Vol 58 No 12 |
- KENYA
- ELECTIONS
The data analytics company that is widely credited with having swung Donald Trump's shock win in last November's US presidential poll and the 'Leave' vote in the United Kingdom referendum on European Union membership through its digital targeting campaigns Cambridge Analytica carries on its website photographs of former and current clients including the late South African President Nelson Mandela and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (AC Blog Cyberwar goes to the polls)...
Vol 58 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
6 million on Washington lobbyists with close connections to US President Donald Trump...
Kushner Companies the family company of top advisor to President Donald Trump his son-in-law Jared Kushner spent around $190 mn...
The industry had experienced little substantial change since FARA was enacted in 1966 until an earthquake hit with the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January...