Last year when US President Donald Trump announced tariffs threatening a major hike in global food prices Morocco offered Washington greater phosphate exports as part of a broader plan to improve its US ties (AC Vol 66 No 17 Arms gas and fertiliser – Rabat outflanks Algiers with a Trump-linked lobbyist)...
The first priority will be securing cross-party support for a bill tabled in the Senate on 13 March by three Republicans including Tom Cotton Rick Scott and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Ted Cruz who was runner-up to President Donald J Trump in the 2016 presidential primary...
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Since starting his second presidential term last January President Donald Trump has ended refugee arrivals in the US as part of a co-ordinated crackdown on migration and asylum claims...
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The EU sees the political war against Pretoria that has been waged by United States President Donald Trump as an opportunity to rebuild its own ties with South Africa after years of frosty relations (AC Vol 66 No 6 Targeted by Trump – Africa and Europe draw closer)...
As the unintended consequences of the US-Israeli war with Iran multiply and President Donald Trump threatens again to withdraw from NATO EU officials are redoubling their diplomatic efforts...
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There was much diplomatic manoeuvring after a presidential spokesman in South Africa announced on 26 March that France's invitation to President Cyril Ramaphosa to attend the G7 summit in June had been withdrawn following a request by United States President Donald Trump...
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Voice of America's 1 042 full-time employees have been reinstated by US District Court Judge Royce Lamberth in a ruling on 17 March that dismissed efforts to dismantle the news agency by Kari Lake who runs the US Agency for Global Media created by President Donald Trump as ‘arbitrary and capricious' (AC Vol 66 No 7 Pretoria picks new envoy for the MAGA minefield)...
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Voice of America's 1 042 full-time employees have been reinstated by US District Court Judge Royce Lamberth in a ruling on 17 March that dismissed efforts to dismantle the news agency by Kari Lake who runs the US Agency for Global Media created by President Donald Trump as ‘arbitrary and capricious' (AC Vol 66 No 7 Pretoria picks new envoy for the MAGA minefield)...
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Since US President Donald Trump's ‘liberation day' tariffs on 2 April last year tariffs have become an accepted part of the trade landscape...
Opinion seems divided in President Donald Trump's administration over whether to step up sanctions on Kigali if it doesn't withdraw all RDF troops from Congo-Kinshasa as requested...