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Israel's diplomatic opening with Morocco and Sudan last year were in part facilitated by the United States under Donald Trump's presidency as well as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates...
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Unlike former President Donald Trump's administration some of whose officials are said to have given Abiy a green light for the military campaign in Tigray 'if it was short and sharply defined' Biden's representatives are strongly opposed to it...
Vol 62 No 12 |
- MOROCCO
- SPAIN
The German government had dared to question former United States President Donald Trump's recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed territory as a quid pro quo for normalisation with Israel (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend)...
And Abuja's ban earned plaudits from the United States' former president Donald Trump...
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Talks on a US-Kenya trade pact had begun last year with Biden's predecessor Donald Trump picking Kenya as the first sub-Saharan African country to get a bespoke trade accord (AC Vol 61 No 17 Trading favours)...
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The two countries along with Morocco are part of a select group of states in which former President Donald Trump showed any interest in boosting political or economic ties...
Having signalled his preference to scrap the African Growth and Opportunity Act due to expire in 2025 and which offers tariff-free access for most African exports to the US former President Donald Trump had promised Kenya its own trade deal with the United States...
Vol 62 No 9 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Gertler has been under US sanctions for grand corruption since December 2017 secretly suspended under Donald Trump just before he left office and then reimposed by President Joe Biden's administration in March (AC Vol 62 No 5 Bank officials 'expose money-laundering network' & Vol 61 No 16 Fury greets Gertler report)...
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By making many of Washington's top diplomatic appointments within three months of the 20 January inauguration Biden and Blinken hope to restore the State Department's morale battered during the Donald Trump era...
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In January it emerged that outgoing US President Donald Trump had secretly suspended sanctions against Israeli businessman Dan Gertler accused by the Treasury Department of grand corruption in Congo-Kinshasa...