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announced on 26 March that France's invitation to President Cyril Ramaphosa to attend the G7 summit in June had been withdrawn following a request by United States President Donald Trump...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...
Yet these Republican members of Congress may see such measures as shoring up their base among the conservative evangelical Christians who have so far stayed loyal to President Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement...
The arrival of United States President Donald Trump's new ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III a veteran critic of the African National Congress in South Africa sets up bilateral relations for further crises...
Unlike South Africa Nigeria manoeuvred swiftly to avoid a major fallout with the United States's volatile President Donald Trump after the Tinubu government was accused of presiding over a genocide of Christians...