Vol 60 No 16 | UNITED STATESAFRICA AGOA no go 9th August 2019 The days of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which has granted tariff-free access for 6,500 products to the United States from 39 African countries since 2000, may be number...
Vol 60 No 11 | MOZAMBIQUESOUTH AFRICAUNITED STATES Chang dodges US extradition 31st May 2019 Leaders of Mozambique's ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique(Frelimo) won an unexpected victory over the United States when South Africa's Justice Minister Michael Masutha ove...
Vol 59 No 25 | UNITED STATESAFRICA 'America first' for Africa 21st December 2018 The White House's Africa strategy is more Pentagon than State, but there is much continuity, albeit in stridently Trumpian language When US National Security Advisor John Bolton set out what he called 'The Trump Administration's New Africa Strategy' on 13 December at The Heritage Foundation, the conservative th...
Vol 59 No 22 | SOMALIAUNITED STATES US strikes, Shabaab gains 9th November 2018 US operations increase but the Islamists are showing resilience. The government is trying to manage expectations The most lethal United States drone strike against Al Shabaab in over a year killed about 60 fighters at Aga Adde, near Galharere in the Central Region, on 16 October. The US offen...
Vol 59 No 18 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Turning down the volume 14th September 2018 Washington’s new man in Africa is trying to relaunch his country’s diplomatic efforts in a much more crowded field When Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta asked for advice about how to handle United States President Donald Trump during his state visit to Washington DC on 27 August, a lobbyist tol...
Vol 59 No 17 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Little growth, less opportunity 31st August 2018 The Trump administration’s attitude to anything it sees as standing in the way of US interests leaves sub-Saharan nations in limbo African countries have been low priority targets for Donald Trump, in his role of great reformer of international trade. But in seeking to remove tariffs, the US has put in a few o...
Vol 59 No 7 | UNITED STATESAFRICA AGOA hits Mitumba 6th April 2018 Rwanda has found itself an unlikely victim of President Donald Trump's international trade war. In a 29 March letter to Congress, the US President announced plans to partly suspend...
Vol 59 No 3 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Skeletons in the cupboard 9th February 2018 A grand jury indictment of Och-Ziff lifts the lid on suspect deals between international financiers and investors in Africa The latest probe into the United States hedge fund Och-Ziff's dealings in Africa has uncovered secret deals involving a company set up by the 'great and the good' of mining investm...
Vol 58 No 18 | UNITED STATESAFRICA The EAC's used clothes 8th September 2017 A ban on used jeans makes for an unlikely trade war. However, there are growing concerns that Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda will be among the first to feel the wrath of President Don...
Vol 58 No 15 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES Diezani in their sights 21st July 2017 The net tightens around former Oil Minister Allison-Madueke as US prosecutors target her business partners' assets The filing of a US$144 million assets recovery case in Houston on 14 July points to substantive progress in international investigations into tens of billions of dollars of oil con...