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)...

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...

President Joe Biden has been in no rush to engage with the Egyptian authorities nor with other Middle Eastern leaders who had gained Donald Trump's favour...

Fresh from being elevated to the Legion of Merit by Donald Trump for his 'Abraham Accords' policy of normalisation with Israel King Mohammed VI has reason to be concerned by a Democratic administration (AC Vol 62 No 2 The King's quiet gong)...

The revelations come a month after it emerged that Gertler had negotiated an unprecedented licence from officials in the outgoing Donald Trump administration suspending the sanctions for a year...

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva supported an unconditional SDR issuance 'to boost reserves of all members' when the Covid-19 pandemic broke but former US President Donald Trump and Mnuchin blocked the move with help from last year's G20 president Saudi Arabia (AC Vol 61 No 7 Third wave threatens the continent)...

0% in 2020 and excess deaths exceeding 70 000 in the year putting the country's death rate on a par with the United States under President Donald Trump Ramaphosa's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic is coming under increasing fire (AC Vol 61 No 17 Graft puts ANC on the spot & Vol 62 No 1 Challenging the statist quo)...

Not all Moroccans were delighted when one of Donald Trump's very last actions as United States president was to award a rare Legion of Merit Degree Chief Commander to King Mohammed VI...