The plan by President Joe Biden's administration to convene an African leaders' summit focusing on food security and climate on 13-15 December was 'long overdue' according to Senator Jim Risch a Republican and senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee...
They also had high hopes of the meetings between United States President Joe Biden and the Gulf states in the week-ending 17 July, where Sudan was meant to have been discussed...
That all changed when Joe Biden replaced Trump in the White House...
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The package formally launched by US President Joe Biden at the summit as the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) is to be financed with public and private funds: $300bn from the EU $200bn from the US and $100bn from Britain and others...
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Five days earlier US President Joe Biden had appointed a new Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Michael Hammer a robust former ambassador to Congo-Kinshasa...
PRESIDENT BIDEN SENDS US FORCES BACK INTO THE FRAY Less than a day after Hassan Sheikh Mohamud emerged as Somalia's new President following indirect elections on 15 May United States President Joe Biden announced that about 450 US Special Forces would be redeployed to the country...
Vol 63 No 11 |
- HEALTH
- COVID-19
Barely 12 months ago there was real urgency in efforts to develop Covid-19 vaccine production facilities in Africa and even United States President Joe Biden backed some kind of waiver of intellectual property rights to fast-track the process...
India whose large fossil fuel and military contracts with Russia dwarf South African commercial links has been urged by President Joe Biden's administration to seek an alternative source of arms...
For Morocco it is sovereignty over the former Spanish colony – as recognised in December 2020 by then United States President Donald Trump and not gainsaid by his successor Joe Biden even if the Ukraine war is forcing a rethink (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend & Dispatches 21/4/22 Washington and Brussels edge back on Western Sahara)...
Earlier this year President Joe Biden's administration confirmed that it would not break with Trump's policy on Western Sahara (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend)...