DISPATCHES
On 3 December US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described Ramaphosa's G20 presidency as ‘an exercise in spite division and radical agendas that have nothing to do with economic growth'...
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‘We are not going to spend billions of dollars funding the NGO industrial complex while close and important partners like Kenya either have no role to play or have very little influence over how health care money is being spent ' said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the signing ceremony in Washington...
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In mid-October Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted Liberia's Foreign Minister Sara Beysolow Nyanti in Washington for talks that focused on minerals deals...
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Senior officials including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have already boycotted preparatory meetings hosted by South Africa (Dispatches 21/7/25 Two cheers for multilateralism)...
Vice-President JD Vance Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Africa Envoy Massad Boulos all echoed the sentiment (Dispatches 6/5/25 Ceasefire minerals deal and troops out as peace deal takes shape)...
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Then US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that after the Kinshasa-Kigali accord that the Trump Administration wanted to address the crisis in Sudan...
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We hear that in South Sudan – which had a US visa ban on its nationals imposed after Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Juba of ‘taking advantage' of the US – a potential deal giving US companies access to oil and minerals could also be on the cards with Boulos once again involved...
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Vol 66 No 11 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
In April US Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked the visas of all South Sudanese passport-holders in the United States with immediate effect accusing Juba of ‘taking advantage of the United States' by failing to comply with US repatriation efforts for rejected asylum and migration applicants...
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Under the terms of a peace process agreed with the United States the governments of Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda are due to submit separate draft peace agreements ahead of a foreign ministers' meeting hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in mid-May...
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Vol 66 No 8 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
US President Donald Trump's administration with Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the forefront has also offered asylum to Afrikaner farmers citing unfair land redistribution policies as the reason (AC Vol 66 No 2 America first but Africa where...