Opposition is mounting to efforts by US President Donald Trump's administration to persuade African states to accept third-country deportees...

' 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...

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...

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...

Mnangagwa seized upon the return of Donald Trump to the United States Presidency and its proclaimed ‘transactional diplomacy' to push for more concessions...