The status of Rwanda's health programme with the US has however been put in doubt after Secretary of State Marco Rubio lambasted Kigali's role in backing the M23 militia's seizure of Uvira in Kivu Sud province...

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'...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...