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President Donald Trump's ‘America First Trade Policy' executive order issued on 20 January just hours after he took office tasked the US Trade Representative the Treasury department and the Commerce department with reviewing all US trade deals by 1 April...
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Boakai's government already has BGR Group an established pro-Republican firm which has secured a series of new contracts with foreign governments since President Donald Trump's election last November on retainer for $210 000 a year (AC Vol 66 No 3 Washington lobbyists win African clients as Trump consolidates power)...
Vol 66 No 4 |
- AFRICA
- MINING
The gold price which surged 20% in 2024 due to escalating political risks has risen another 10% since Donald Trump took over the United States presidency...
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He may also be taking a cue from Washington's close ties with Moscow under Donald Trump's presidency...
United States President Donald Trump's suspension of US aid will indirectly deprive Rwanda of up to $180m this year (Dispatches 28/1/25 Rubio deals hammer blow to US aid)...
Barbs against Ramaphosa's policies from President Donald Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio were diplomatically glossed over in the hour-long speech and neither man was mentioned by name in his lengthy statement...
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The hostility of Donald Trump's United States presidency towards Ramaphosa's government including the suspension of all aid programmes in the country appears to have been grasped as an opportunity by Brussels (Dispatches 5/2/25 Trump wages economic war over land bill)...
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Ruto indicated that the US had exempted the mission from the 90-day pause in aid spending imposed by US President Donald Trump on 20 January following a call with Rubio on 6 February...
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While Museveni attempts to repair the diplomatic damage caused by his son he will hope that a second Donald Trump presidency will lift the sanctions imposed by the US State Department last May against Parliamentary Speaker Anita Among and Finance Minister Amos Lugoloobi...
Amid uncertainty about aid and security policies a flurry of lobbying contracts with foreign governments many of them African have been filed under the US State Department's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) since Donald Trump won the 5 November presidential election...
The latest African contract for Florida-based Ballard Partners founded by Brian Ballard a close ally of President Donald J Trump is a six-month deal with Sudan Armed Forces leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan with the $300 000 fee paid upfront in October...