With the United States and France full square behind Morocco's claim – in a dispute whose resolution President Donald Trump sees adding lustre to his quest for a Nobel peace prize aided by Washington being the UN Security Council's Western Sahara penholder – Rabat is convinced events are moving in its favour...
After US President Donald J Trump hailed the strikes as a ‘Christmas present' for Islamist militants local opponents claimed the operation breached Nigerian sovereignty and risked exacerbating religious divisions...
Within the US the Somali community is also accused by supporters of President Donald J Trump for benefiting from fraud in Medicaid-funded services which the Department of Justice is investigating...
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United States President Donald Trump's Africa envoy Massad Boulos was also in Riyadh at the same time and met with Saudi officials though he is not believed to have held talks with Burhan...
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They are encouraged by President Donald Trump's 2 December comments that Somalis in Minnesota were ‘garbage' and see Representative Ilhan Omar's responses as evidence that the Mogadishu government is in deep trouble meaning recognition of Somaliland is around the corner...
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Félix Tshisekedi signed the peace agreement alongside US President Donald J Trump...
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These bilateral agreements will replace USAID which was shuttered shortly after President Donald Trump took office in January but they will only be put in place with governments that Washington is willing to do business with...
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Less clear is whether President Donald Trump's administration will insist on excluding South Africa with whom it has been waging a sustained diplomatic and economic battle...
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United States President Donald Trump's administration is intensifying its diplomatic feud with South Africa inviting Poland to next year's G20 summit in Miami and excluding South Africa...
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His Foreign Minister Edouard Bizimana has described M23's latest advances as a ‘humiliation' and a ‘middle finger' to President Donald Trump who had proclaimed his Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity as a ‘miracle'...