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Nor does the message for Africa from the new US government under Donald Trump taking over on 20 January sound more hopeful...

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...

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...