Five days earlier US President Joe Biden had appointed a new Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Michael Hammer a robust former ambassador to Congo-Kinshasa...

PRESIDENT BIDEN SENDS US FORCES BACK INTO THE FRAY Less than a day after Hassan Sheikh Mohamud emerged as Somalia's new President following indirect elections on 15 May United States President Joe Biden announced that about 450 US Special Forces would be redeployed to the country...

Barely 12 months ago there was real urgency in efforts to develop Covid-19 vaccine production facilities in Africa and even United States President Joe Biden backed some kind of waiver of intellectual property rights to fast-track the process...

India whose large fossil fuel and military contracts with Russia dwarf South African commercial links has been urged by President Joe Biden's administration to seek an alternative source of arms...

For Morocco it is sovereignty over the former Spanish colony – as recognised in December 2020 by then United States President Donald Trump and not gainsaid by his successor Joe Biden even if the Ukraine war is forcing a rethink (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend & Dispatches 21/4/22 Washington and Brussels edge back on Western Sahara)...

Earlier this year President Joe Biden's administration confirmed that it would not break with Trump's policy on Western Sahara (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend)...

A picture purporting to show Ruto shaking hands with President Joe Biden did the rounds on social media prompting further ridicule...

US Democratic Party Congressman Chris Coons a close ally of President Joe Biden is mobilising opinion to back a swingeing package of sanctions against the generals...