Speaking at the White House on 27 June during the signing of a new peace agreement by the Rwandan and Congolese foreign ministers President Donald Trump declared that no previous United States president had attempted to broker peace between Rwanda and Congo-Kinshasa – and that none could have succeeded as he had...
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The highest profile would-be mediator is Massad Boulos President Donald Trump's advisor on African affairs (and father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany Trump)...
But the response from US President Donald J Trump threatening a 30% hike in tariffs on any BRICS member state pushing for anti-US policies sharpened differences within the organisation about how to revive multilateral action on climate and financial sector reform...
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...
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Vol 66 No 14 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
It was mooted that South Africa would be targeted for wide-ranging economic sanctions after President Donald Trump's second term started in January...
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However the gathering pointed to the growing isolationism of US President Donald Trump's administration...
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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...
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Vol 66 No 13 |
- AFRICA
- DEBT
On top of the tariffs threatened by United States President Donald Trump most African states are weighing up how to plug budget holes in education and in particular healthcare spending created by the suspension of most US aid...
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