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Plans for President Joe Biden to make his own official visit to the continent the first by a US president since Barack Obama are still in the works...
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Kenya expects to complete a trade deal with the United States by the end of this year the first bilateral pact inked by President Joe Biden's administration say officials involved in the talks...
While Blinken and President Joe Biden have welcomed his liberation Rusesabagina – whose terrorism sentence has been commuted but not rescinded Rwandan officials stress – will not officially be hailed as a returning hero when he flies to San Antonio Texas for a checkup at the US military facility which processes released hostages...
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She has also been to Oman Doha Egypt (for COP 27) and received the new Kenyan President William Ruto before going to China and the United States meeting President Joe Biden and doing deals with the major international financial institutions...
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Born and raised in India but with a high-level history in corporate United States Banga is an astute choice as President Joe Biden's official nominee: his business background will help him win support in Congress and raise much-needed private counterpart funding for Bank projects...
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Relations between Malpass an investment banker appointed by President Donald Trump and the US Treasury had languished since Joe Biden assumed the presidency in 2021...
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They blocked her from being the lead Democrat on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs committee Policy-makers expect a more assertive Congressional approach to US-Africa relations following President Joe Biden's promise to step up US political and economic engagement with Africa at last December's leaders' summit (Dispatches 29/11/22 President Biden hosts African leaders amid multiple crises)...
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President Yoweri Museveni reportedly met Boeing executives in Chicago when he was in the United States for the December African Leaders' Summit with President Joe Biden and enquired about the Boeing 737 Max model...
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Yellen's visit is the first of a series of African visits by senior officials in US President Joe Biden's administration following December's US-Africa leaders' summit (AC Vol 64 No 2 Grand ambitions little money)...
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Having initially proclaimed neutrality and refusing to criticise Russia over its invasion of Ukraine Lourenço has curried favour with Joe Biden's administration by urging Moscow to take the 'initiative' to end to the conflict...