To break the deadlock Friedland has intensified efforts to court President Mamady Doumbouya – even attending his January inauguration alongside former US Ambassadors Troy Fitrell and Patricia Moller and Nick Checker the head of the Bureau of African Affairs...

Some senior Republicans and the former acting Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Troy Fitrell have suggested the Trump administration wants to renew AGOA in some form but there is no proposal on the table...

They would focus on the ‘commercial diplomacy' highlighted in the six-point trade plan set out by Washington's outgoing Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Troy Fitrell in May...