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It will benefit from the 90-day pause on the tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on 9 April (Dispatches 7/4/25 Legal battles loom over Trump's Africa tariffs)...
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Confusion reigns as officials and companies seek clarity on the timetable for the swingeing ‘reciprocal' tariffs imposed on exports to the United States by President Donald J Trump on 2 April...
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The attempts to form an Africa team in President Donald Trump's administration in the United States have stalled...
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Mnangagwa and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government have been courting United States President Donald Trump's administration...
The loss of aid funding from the United States after President Donald Trump's plan to cut the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is a further blow...
The choice of the United States's new Ambassador to Pretoria – Leo Brent Bozell III – dispels any notion that President Donald Trump's administration might dial down its position on South Africa having claimed its first scalp in the form of declaring African National Congress loyalist Ebrahim Rasool ‘persona non grata' as ambassador to Washington DC...
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France's TotalEnergies had offered the lobbyists a bonus if they could secure Eximbank's approval for the loan before Donald Trump was sworn in...
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US LOBBYISTS PUSH CRITICAL MINERALS FOR SECURITY DEALS In a Central African version of the new wave of transactional politics Congolese politicians have been hiring Washington lobbyists to persuade President Donald Trump's administration to back President Félix Tshisekedi by offering access to critical minerals and the deepwater port at Banana on Congo-K's Atlantic coast (Dispatches 25/2/25 Tshisekedi inks lobbying deal to bag minerals deal with Trump)...
It's conceivable that Abiy would try to use Tigray's volatility combined with the uncertainty created by United States President Donald Trump's uprooting of the international order to try to dethrone Issayas and reclaim Assab...
IncautiousLulled by the perception that the government in Mogadishu was consumed by internal battles election preparations and the consequences of President Donald Trump's aid cuts Al Shabaab exposed its troops and their leaders too far and too early...