U.S. Leadership approval in the world slips to unprecedented low
BY WILLIAM J. FIGHTER Worldwide approval of the United States role has slipped to a new low, a Gallup poll published today says. U.S. approval rate is now below that … Read More
Tag: Trump and Africa
Pushing Donald Trump back in his hole
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Ever since our democracy tripped on 9 November 2016 and a racist, insecure, vulgar and ignorant bigot, after bleeding from self-inflicted wounds of proven women’s groping and … Read More
Trump hosts African leaders during U.N. session, makes a fool of himself
BY JIBRIL TURE President Trump threw a luncheon today, September 20, for a select few African heads of state and their foreign ministers at the Palace Hotel in New York … Read More
Look to China for the main beneficiary of America’s likely retreat from Africa
BY PETER VALE Anti-terrorism and transactional relationships are likely to be the main features of US President Donald Trump’s Africa policy. But if Trump’s proposed cuts to the state department … Read More
Trump’s US still lacks an Africa policy – but that might be about to change
BY STEPHEN CHAN When Donald Trump was elected, almost no one in the US was thinking about Africa. People knew the swingeing State Department and foreign aid cuts the new … Read More
Africa is high on the G20 summit agenda. But will Trump do what thwart progress?
BY JOHN J. TREMLAU When G20 leaders meet in Hamburg in early July they face a problem not on their formal agenda: how to work around Donald Trump. The US president disdains … Read More
African leaders at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit call for U.S. investment
BY ALAN GREEN With an estimated 800 participants in attendance, including U.S. commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, Mozambique’s president Felipe Nyusi, and the president of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi … Read More
U.S.-Africa Business Summit to be held in Washington June 13-16
BY ALAN GREEN The Washington-based Corporate Council on Africa, C.C.A., the largest association of American corporations involved in Africa, will hold its 11th U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Washington, June 13 … Read More
Trump to sell war planes to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram—Despite Human rights violations
BY ALAN GREEN The Trump administration is poised to sell 12 Super Tucano aircraft worth almost $600 million to Nigeria in support of the Buhari government’s fight against the terrorist … Read More
Responding to Trump’s ‘discoarse’? An African humanist philosophy may be the way
BY LEYLA TAVERNARO-HAIDARIAN US President Donald Trump is easily the most controversial person on Twitter. He thrives on the medium and has been exploiting it effectively. The tone of many of Trump’s … Read More