Since Burhan's meeting with Massad Boulos – United States President Donald Trump's Senior Africa Advisor – in Zurich on 11 August they have known that the SAF was offered a safe exit from the war...
25 billion Eurobond launch on 5 November despite market ructions triggered by United States President Donald Trump's threats of military action against Nigeria...
Vol 66 No 22 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
We understand that South Africa's AGOA benefits are more likely to be replaced by a bilateral trade deal; one that although transactional hinges on political factors opposed by President Donald Trump's administration including Black Economic Empowerment and land expropriation without compensation (Dispatches 5/2/25 Trump wages economic war over land bill AC Vol 66 No 11 Why Musk and Rupert hold key to the Ramaphosa-Trump summit & Vol 66 No 16 Tariff calamity deepens rift with Washington)...
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On 1 November President Donald Trump escalated the rhetoric posting on social media that he would send the US military into Nigeria ‘all guns blazing' unless Tinubu's government acted more forcefully to protect Christians against attacks from Islamist insurgents...
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The main breakthrough came with its deal with the US during President Donald Trump's first administration that it made in exchange for recognising Israel (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend)...
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The pressure is mounting on Massad Boulos senior Africa advisor to United States President Donald Trump after the latest setback to his efforts to corral Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda into a peace and security agreement underwritten by a mining accord...
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The risk as with US President Donald J Trump's tariffs is that the Congolese government and affected companies come to negotiate opaque deals with under the counter benefits for both sides which would worsen already chronic corruption (AC Vol 66 No 4 Washington tries a new push in Kinshasa)...
After Africa Confidential reported Beach's Congolese projects in June (AC Vol 66 No 14 Trump family allies broker security and mining deals in Central Africa) he has given a lengthy interview to the Wall Street Journal describing his close ties with presidential scion Donald Trump Jnr and their ‘mutual destruction' pact...
Vol 66 No 20 |
- AFRICA
- ISLAMISM
This shift reflects distracted western militaries failed state-building policies and domestic political pressures that began even before US President Donald Trump's administration sharply cut budgets for aid and diplomacy...
Bendler was hired by BGR Group one of the most prominent lobby shops in Washington DC and particularly close to US President Donald Trump's administration...
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The funding shortage is in large part the result of an impasse after US President Donald Trump's administration vetoed UN Security Council Resolution 2719 which would have allowed it to cover up to 75% of costs for AU-led peacekeeping operations with the remaining 25% coming from voluntary contributions such as the EU (AC Vol 66 No 14 Politicians seek a way out of the impasse)...
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