President Donald Trump's decision to unfreeze export approval for weapons for Nigeria mainly combat aircraft is under fire...
Fawzy's dismissal could also be the result of a report by the New York Times on 6 January which contended that a GIS official had called several prominent television presenters to tell them to tone down criticism of the United States' President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel...
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- CONGO-KINSHASA
The Americans raised the stakes on 21 December when President Donald Trump sanctioned Dan Gertler an Israeli billionaire who is friends with Kabila and has acted as a gatekeeper for major deals in mining and oil (AC Vol 58 No 5 An awkward tango for Gertler and Glencore)...
Vol 59 No 1 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
The dark horse is US President Donald Trump's administration which has put South Sudan high on its Africa agenda...
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- CONGO-KINSHASA
Founder Brian Ballard is a prominent Republican fundraiser who ran the Florida campaigns for Republican Party presidential nominees John McCain Mitt Romney and the incumbent Donald Trump...
'He will be Liberia's Donald Trump ' quipped one local reporter to Africa Confidential...
Al Shabaab is having to cope with a new strategy by the US military's Africom (the US Africa Command based in Stuttgart Germany) after President Donald Trump approved a more aggressive posture in Somalia and greater latitude for local commanders...
The move came as a surprise to Cairo particularly since El Sisi took pains to shore up the relationship with a grand tour of Washington in April in which he met President Donald Trump and all his top officials...
On 18 September United States President Donald Trump is to host a meeting alongside UN Secretary General António Guterres to push for radical reforms in the organisation and to cut Washington's contribution...
But the election of Donald Trump restored American amour propre to the centre of policy and the idea is no longer a strategy but a short-term tactical ploy to split the jihadists...