Benjamin Netanyahu

Just as Trump is relying on Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman Kenyatta has positioned himself to be the White House's 'Africa guy'...

The Elbit contracts were signed just days after Lungu met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Uganda at a gathering of East African heads of state to mark the 40th anniversary of Israel's 3-4 July 1976 raid on Entebbe airport (AC Vol 57 No 14 A close political race gets angrier)...

The deportation policy stands in marked contrast to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent 'charm offensive' in Africa seeking diplomatic support at the United Nations and contracts dependent on Israel's security expertise (AC Vol 58 No 7 Plan Bibi for AU)...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems determined to revive his planned Africa-Israel Summit...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the past year courting African leaders seeking to exchange development aid investment and counter-terrorism expertise for African support in international fora such as the United Nations...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's charm offensive began after December's United Nations Security Council resolution co-sponsored by Angola and Senegal condemned Israeli settlement activity...

ESL Agence Publics and Brussels-based Aspect Consulting were also hired via the Israeli firm Shaviv Strategy and Campaigns – which counts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among its clients – to coordinate Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's re-election campaign in April 2016 and promote the work of the electoral commission the Commission nationale électorale indépendante (AC Vol 57 No 7 Sassou makes it modest)...

Timor Consulting and Shaviv Consulting – which counts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among its clients – advised presidential campaigns in Zambia Congo-Brazzaville Kenya Botswana and Egypt (AC Vol 57 No 5 Lungu schemes to survive & Vol 57 No 7 Sassou makes it modest)...

Given the poisonous relations between outgoing US President Barack Obama and Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu this looks ill-judged...

His campaign headquarters in a plush office in the capital was staffed by consultants from Agence Publics a Paris public relations firm which counts French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy among its former clients and Shaviv Consulting which worked for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his re-election in 2015...