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The perception remains that the Donald Trump-backed World Bank managing director David Malpass is unfairly tightening requirements for recipients of its lending...

President Donald Trump's lack of interest in or knowledge of Africa is well-known...

US President Donald Trump has been a major critic of the WTO throughout his term and his administration has hobbled the institution's Appellate Body – known as the 'supreme court of world trade' – by blocking the appointment of new judges denying it a quorum...

Under a 1948 joint resolution of the US Congress Donald Trump had to give one year's notice of a withdrawal and is required to pay what Washington owes for the organisation's current fiscal year (AC Vol 61 No 10 The plot against Tedros)...

US ambassador to the UN in Geneva Andrew Bremberg a close ally of President Donald Trump insists the most pro-American candidate will win...

President Donald Trump has used his presidency to launch trade wars against China the European Union and his North American Free Trade Association partners...

Already the spectre of vaccine nationalism is raising its head with both United States President Donald Trump and United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailing their advance purchases of millions more vaccine vials than they have people (AC Vol 61 No 8 The war for the cure)...

As the big brother within the East African Community and one of the original signatories to the Africa Continental Free Trade Area the alacrity (and lack of consultation) with which Nairobi acquiesced to the Donald Trump administration's overtures smacks of opportunism...

Mercury which says it is bipartisan works for a range of entities and governments some close to US President Donald Trump's administration and some of which have been targeted for sanctions (See Box Quicksilver influencers)...

Mercury's campaign for Kanu has chalked up successes persuading US Senators Joni Ernst and Kelly Loeffler to write to President Donald Trump to assert that there is state-backed persecution of Christians in Nigeria and to consider sanctions against the leadership in Abuja...

Cairo however will argue that President Abdel Fatteh el Sisi's close relations with US President Donald Trump favours their choice especially when US-Nigeria relations have hit a new low...