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The deal with Ballard whose founder Brian Ballard chaired former President Donald Trump's campaign in Florida in 2016 is focused on ‘enhancing US-Government of Liberia bilateral relations developing trade investment and business opportunities' according to documents filed under the United States' Foreign Agents Registration Act...
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Organising the US-African leaders' summit had been made a priority by officials during Biden's first tumultuous year in power partly to address the damage done to US-Africa relations under President Donald Trump...
Kenya had been one of only a couple of African countries with which Donald Trump's presidency had sought a trade deal...
The Islamist fighters' outreach to journalists may have been prompted by the US's decision to return the 500 troops to Somalia which President Donald Trump had earlier removed and the change of the African Union's Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) into the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) whose name aspires to a future handover to Somalia's own security forces (AC Vol 63 No 11 Kenya and US welcome Hassan Sheikh's presidential comeback)...
* The United States first imposed sanctions on Vekselberg during Donald Trump's presidency when UMK's ownership structure changed and Renova's stake in it fell below 50% the threshold above which US sanctions kick in...
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That proposal had already won support from President Donald Trump's outgoing administration in the United States (Dispatches 14/3/22 Rabat's lobbying of Washington on Western Sahara has paid off)...
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Talks on a US-Kenya trade deal started under former President Donald Trump but have since stalled...
Arguments over the role of US troops in Somalia date back to President Donald Trump's administration and beyond...
The US is debating whether or not to send the forces that President Donald Trump withdrew from Baledogle back there...
For Morocco it is sovereignty over the former Spanish colony – as recognised in December 2020 by then United States President Donald Trump and not gainsaid by his successor Joe Biden even if the Ukraine war is forcing a rethink (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend & Dispatches 21/4/22 Washington and Brussels edge back on Western Sahara)...
The Palace was concerned about a potential popular backlash when it signed up for former United States President Donald Trump's Abraham Accords formally recognising Israel...