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)...
Earlier this year President Joe Biden's administration confirmed that it would not break with Trump's policy on Western Sahara (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend)...
A picture purporting to show Ruto shaking hands with President Joe Biden did the rounds on social media prompting further ridicule...
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Rabat has stepped up its lobbying efforts in the United States in recent months to persuade President Joe Biden's administration that it should not unpick the Trump administration's position on Western Sahara...
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US Democratic Party Congressman Chris Coons a close ally of President Joe Biden is mobilising opinion to back a swingeing package of sanctions against the generals...
Ruto spent his first day in the US with Steve Sisolak the Democrat governor of Nevada State who has won endorsements from both Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden...
He is now set to return to the US becoming President Joe Biden's new head of PEPFAR – the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief...
PREMIER ABIY JUGGLES FOREIGN INTERESTS The visit of the new United States Envoy to the Horn of Africa David Satterfield and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee to Addis Ababa on 19 January will attempt to build on US President Joe Biden's call with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on 10 January following the release of some political prisoners in the previous week...
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Kholood Khair managing partner of Insight Strategies and Cameron Hudson a former chief of staff to the US envoy to Sudan wrote in the Washington-based Foreign Policy that US President Joe Biden's administration should find ways '… for democracy and governance funding all of which is now frozen to be channelled through pro-democracy groups and other civilian structures that will not legitimise the coup...
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United States President Joe Biden didn't reverse Donald Trump's recognition of Morocco's disputed territory in Western Sahara while Rabat deepened ties with Israel and other ‘Abraham Accords' signatories led by the wealthy and powerfully armed United Arab Emirates (AC Vol 61 No 25 King reaps Saharan dividend)...