PREMIER ABIY JUGGLES FOREIGN INTERESTS The visit of the new United States Envoy to the Horn of Africa David Satterfield and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee to Addis Ababa on 19 January will attempt to build on US President Joe Biden's call with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on 10 January following the release of some political prisoners in the previous week...
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Kholood Khair managing partner of Insight Strategies and Cameron Hudson a former chief of staff to the US envoy to Sudan wrote in the Washington-based Foreign Policy that US President Joe Biden's administration should find ways '… for democracy and governance funding all of which is now frozen to be channelled through pro-democracy groups and other civilian structures that will not legitimise the coup...
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United States President Joe Biden didn't reverse Donald Trump's recognition of Morocco's disputed territory in Western Sahara while Rabat deepened ties with Israel and other ‘Abraham Accords' signatories led by the wealthy and powerfully armed United Arab Emirates (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend)...
On 22 December US President Joe Biden ended duty-free trade with Guinea under the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA)...
The US administration of Joe Biden has applied limited cuts to its annual military aid grant to show its concern...
They had all been encouraged when the United States dropped its opposition to the move after President Joe Biden's administration rejoined the UN Climate treaty making fresh commitments on finance...
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These measures would require some restrictions on the US's own tax-haven jurisdictions such as President Joe Biden's home state of Delaware and a raft of legislation to update the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...
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On his return Mnangagwa told supporters at Robert Mugabe airport in Harare that United States President Joe Biden had greeted him positively and instructed his staffers to set up meetings bypassing the US Embassy in Harare...
His trip which also takes in Nigeria and Senegal is the first formal African trip by President Joe Biden's top diplomat...
On 2 November United States President Joe Biden announced that Ethiopia would be taken out of the African Growth and Opportunity Act provisions which gave it tariff-free access to the US market...