Until the outgoing Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told the organisation's summit in Addis Ababa on 30 January that the United States' travel ban on seven countries with Muslim majorities presaged 'turbulent times' the continent's reaction to Donald Trump's presidency had been muted...
Roll call of the Trumpeteers In the fraught days after the 7 November presidential election questions to policy specialists in Washington about who would be on President Donald Trump's Africa team were met with blank stares and long silences...
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- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Nor does the message for Africa from the new US government under Donald Trump taking over on 20 January sound more hopeful...
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As Africa Confidential went to press speculation was rife among Sudan activists in the United States that outgoing US President Barack Obama might ease sanctions on Sudan before his successor Donald Trump takes over on 20 January...
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- SOUTH SUDAN
That is unlikely to be assuaged by the accession this month to the United States' presidency of foreign policy maverick Donald Trump...
US President-elect Donald Trump has indicated eliminating IS will be a priority suggesting more such strikes to come...
The new Obama policy is also a way to narrow the gap between his own counter-terrorism policy and whatever President-elect Donald Trump may decide concerning fighting jihadists in Africa...
Yet as with the fans of Italy's Silvio Berlusconi or America's Donald Trump many people in Benin scraping by on marginal livelihoods are attracted by a can-do businessman with a cavalier style...