US Africa Envoy Massad Boulos and US hedge fund executive Gentry Beach – both with close links to US President Donald J Trump's family – were prime movers in the discreet business-infused negotiations leading to the signing of a peace accord between the foreign ministers of Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda in Washington DC on 27 June (Dispatches 16 June Washington wants security-mining deal finalised by end of June)...

Alongside the Boulos mission Gentry Beach has been surveying the commercial prospects of Congo's mining sector; he is a hunting partner and business associate of Donald Trump Junior they studied at Pennsylvania University together...

Beach was an enthusiastic fundraiser for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 and was vice-chair of the 2017 inauguration fundraising committee...

Mnangagwa seized upon the return of Donald Trump to the United States Presidency and its proclaimed ‘transactional diplomacy' to push for more concessions...

Activist warn the cuts will deepen this year after the shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and a three-month freeze on other aid imposed by President Donald Trump – accompanied by sharp cuts to aid budgets by many European governments (AC Vol 66 No 5 Western aid cuts reshape the geopolitical landscape)...

United States President Donald Trump's administration has proposed a budget for 2026 that would cut funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) by 34% and NIH funding by 36% for a combined total of over US$5...

But that was before funding aid and multilateral institutions came under attack primarily from United States President Donald Trump but also from European governments...