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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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With a close eye on the oil and gas reserves managed in Tripoli and old ties to rogue General Khalifa Haftar United States President Donald Trump is trying to balance his interests in Libya...
Opposition is mounting to efforts by US President Donald Trump's administration to persuade African states to accept third-country deportees...
Vol 66 No 15 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
' Côte d'Ivoire was a notable absence from the five countries – Senegal Mauritania Guinea-Bissau Liberia and Gabon – invited to lunch with President Donald Trump on 9 July...
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South Africa Libya Algeria and Tunisia were among a group of over 20 countries to be issued with tariff letters from United States President Donald Trump's administration this week...
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Speaking at the White House on 27 June during the signing of a new peace agreement by the Rwandan and Congolese foreign ministers President Donald Trump declared that no previous United States president had attempted to broker peace between Rwanda and Congo-Kinshasa – and that none could have succeeded as he had...
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The highest profile would-be mediator is Massad Boulos President Donald Trump's advisor on African affairs (and father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany Trump)...
But the response from US President Donald J Trump threatening a 30% hike in tariffs on any BRICS member state pushing for anti-US policies sharpened differences within the organisation about how to revive multilateral action on climate and financial sector reform...
US Africa Envoy Massad Boulos and US hedge fund executive Gentry Beach – both with close links to US President Donald Trump's family – were prime movers in the discreet business-infused negotiations leading to the signing of a peace accord between the foreign ministers of Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda in Washington DC on 27 June (Dispatches 16 June Washington wants security-mining deal finalised by end of June)...
Alongside the Boulos mission Gentry Beach has been surveying the commercial prospects of Congo's mining sector; he is a hunting partner and business associate of Donald Trump Junior they studied at Pennsylvania University together...
Beach was an enthusiastic fundraiser for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 and was vice-chair of the 2017 inauguration fundraising committee...