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)...
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Vol 62 No 4 |
- ETHIOPIA
- SUDAN
Surveying these developments United States President Joe Biden's administration has been trying to dampen down regional tensions by dropping some of the more contentious positions adopted under Donald Trump's presidency (AC Vol 61 No 24 War resets the region)...
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Vol 62 No 2 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
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...
In foreign affairs Kenyatta will attempt to reinvent himself as a friend of incoming United States President Joe Biden following the exit of his old mate Donald Trump (AC Vol 61 No 17 Trading favours)...
Vol 62 No 1 |
- SAHEL
- SECURITY
The indications so far are that the incoming Joe Biden administration will abandon the non-interventionist policies of President Donald Trump...
US President Donald Trump had announced on 19 October that Sudan would be removed as a state sponsor of terrorism but this only became official on 14 December as no objections had been received from Congress during the mandatory 45-day notice period...
Joining the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Bahrain and Sudan in agreeing to President Donald Trump's 'Abraham Accords' was discussed with senior Israelis and Trump's special envoy Avi Berkowitz by M6's go-betweens – including veteran Moroccan Jewish community leader Serge Berdugo wealthy businessman Yariv Elbaz and foreign intelligence head Yassine Mansouri...
It is thought the Biden administration will not give as much diplomatic support to Egypt in the conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as President Donald Trump did (AC Vol 61 No 14 The pride of lions)...
Ethiopia might benefit from the electoral defeat of United States President Donald Trump removing one of the strongest supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's position on the GERD...