Former United States President Donald Trump shocked many by remarking that Egypt might resort to bombing the dam if Ethiopia wasn't prepared to give ground in negotiations...
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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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Many more visitors come from Israel which has built a network of business security tourism and cultural ties since the December 2020 Abraham Accord to normalise relations was brokered by Donald Trump (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend & Dispatches 21/4/22 Washington and Brussels edge back on Western Sahara)...
After four years of neglect under US President Donald Trump Joe Biden vowed that the US was 'back' in Africa...
Isabel dos Santos is planning to take the PR fight to her late father's successor Angolan President João Lourenço by hiring K-Street lobbyists with close links to former United States President Donald Trump and a history of controversial clients...
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US-Africa relations which took a back seat in the Donald Trump years have been losing out to more activist diplomacy by middle powers such as Brazil India Iran Japan and Turkey and most of all China which is Africa's biggest bilateral trading partner...
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Morocco benefited from its diplomatic deals over Western Sahara with the US under the Donald Trump administration while its relations with France have deteriorated since 2020...
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El Sisi an admirer of former US President Donald Trump is set to meet high-level US and European officials on climate and regional security issues including Sudan and Ethiopia...
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Vol 63 No 17 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
This is a consequence of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi's dismay at President Donald Trump's failure to come to their aid in the wake of Iranian attacks on tankers in the Gulf in May 2019 and the Houthi drone strikes on Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure that September...
Before he left office after losing the 2020 elections United States President Donald Trump endorsed the Rabat Plan as part of a trade-off in which Morocco would open formal diplomatic relations with Israel (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend)...