Vol 66 No 4 |
- AFRICA
- MINING
The gold price which surged 20% in 2024 due to escalating political risks has risen another 10% since Donald Trump took over the United States presidency...
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He may also be taking a cue from Washington's close ties with Moscow under Donald Trump's presidency...
United States President Donald Trump's suspension of US aid will indirectly deprive Rwanda of up to $180m this year (Dispatches 28/1/25 Rubio deals hammer blow to US aid)...
Barbs against Ramaphosa's policies from President Donald J Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio were diplomatically glossed over in the hour-long speech and neither man was mentioned by name in his lengthy statement...
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The hostility of Donald Trump's United States presidency towards Ramaphosa's government including the suspension of all aid programmes in the country appears to have been grasped as an opportunity by Brussels (Dispatches 5/2/25 Trump wages economic war over land bill)...
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Ruto indicated that the US had exempted the mission from the 90-day pause in aid spending imposed by US President Donald Trump on 20 January following a call with Rubio on 6 February...
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While Museveni attempts to repair the diplomatic damage caused by his son he will hope that a second Donald Trump presidency will lift the sanctions imposed by the US State Department last May against Parliamentary Speaker Anita Among and Finance Minister Amos Lugoloobi...
Amid uncertainty about aid and security policies a flurry of lobbying contracts with foreign governments many of them African have been filed under the US State Department's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) since Donald J Trump won the 5 November presidential election...
The latest African contract for Florida-based Ballard Partners founded by Brian Ballard a close ally of President Donald J Trump is a six-month deal with Sudan Armed Forces leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan with the $300 000 fee paid upfront in October...
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South Africa is the first African country to be specifically targeted by the new United States President Donald J Trump...
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Within hours of entering the White House President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a three-month freeze on all foreign aid...
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