But the Senate is more divided on party lines over the issue: many leading Republicans are likely to follow President Donald Trump's strictures on South Africa which could mean its exclusion from the scheme and already include punitive 30% tariffs on some exports to the US...
Instead they advise such issues – debt in particular – should take the form of ‘win-win solutions' and ‘deals' favoured by US President Donald Trump...
Within hours of US President Donald Trump's re-election on 6 November 2024 his Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa ladled on the sycophancy in a social media posting: ‘Congratulations to President-elect @realdonaldtrump on your election victory...
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Despite signing a lucrative health funding deal with the US as part of President Donald Trump's ‘America First Global Health Strategy' Tinubu has been frustrated by Trump's claims of genocide against Christians in Nigeria (Dispatches 5/1/26 After shutting down USAID Washington launches $15 billion health pacts in Africa)...
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Contracting out aid provision and development policy to the private sector is at the heart of United States President Donald Trump's agenda (Dispatches 8/12/25 Ruto moves adeptly to shore up ties with Washington)...
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Saudi escalationAs relations were deteriorating between the Saudi Arabian and Emirati leaders Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud visited United States President Donald Trump in Washington DC in November winning his approval for the purchase of F-35 fighter jets perhaps as many as 48 planes in a multi-billion-dollar deal that would make Saudi Arabia the first Arab nation to get such advanced military technology...
The main disappointment in Hargeisa on 26 December was that United States President Donald Trump did not follow suit and recognise Somaliland despite invitations from Israel and the UAE...
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He is not part of US President Donald Trump's inner circle but Ervin Graves co-founder Tom Graves is a former Republican Congressman for Georgia...
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Hassan Sheikh's relations with Washington are sharply deteriorating after the Donald Trump administration's decision to suspend aid after the Federal Bureau of Investigations launched a probe into alleged fraud worth over US$250 million by Somali migrants in Minnesota as well as Israel's decision to recognise Somaliland's independence Wang Yi had been expected to underscore China's support for Somalia's territorial integrity (AC Vol 67 No 1 Trump allies split over Mogadishu as Israel recognises breakaway Somaliland)...
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But it was not until United States President Donald Trump threatened to intervene to stop what he claimed was a genocide against Christians that Tinubu started taking more decisive action...
It may be that Niger's hasty call to arms was prompted by Donald Trump's ‘Christmas present' to what US officials insist was a column of IS-allied fighters crossing from Mali into Nigeria...