US-Africa Week Ahead: America in Nairobi, Somaliland in Washington

Kenya President William Ruto and US Assistant Secretary of State Frank Garcia are both expected at this week’s US-East Africa business summit.

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US extends AGOA trade deal as Washington seeks to counter China in Africa

The House followed the Senate’s lead by extending the African Growth and Opportunity Act until near the end of Trump’s term.

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US pressed from all sides as Sudan conflict spreads far and wide

Rival Sudanese factions are scrambling to win over Washington ahead of this month’s UN General Assembly.

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Trump’s UN cuts hasten new regional scramble for Somalia

Neighbouring powers are vying for influence as the unravelling AU peacekeeping mission further fractures Africa’s most fragile state.

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US draws Sudanese army’s ire with talk of UN weapons embargo

US Trump envoy Massad Boulos goes after drone warfare that has given the Sudanese Armed Forces a battlefield edge against the Rapid Support Forces.

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US-Africa Week Ahead: Nigeria next steps, Iran sanctions and Ghana investment summit

US Christian activists make the case for maintaining pressure on the Tinubu administration in Nigeria. Washington is set to announce ‘tougher’ sanctions on Iran, and in New York, the UN Security Counc...

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Christian killings in Nigeria ignite push for continued CPC blacklisting despite military gains

US advocates are clamouring for Trump to renew his Country of Particular Concern designation, notwithstanding improved security cooperation.

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DRC: Joseph Kabila hits back at Washington after US Treasury sanctions

Targeted in April by the US Treasury, which accuses him of backing CRA/M23 rebels, the former Congolese president has hired a lawyer in the US.

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Release of US missionary seized in Niger follows re-engagement with Sahel juntas

With US-Sahel joint intelligence services closing in, Kevin Rideout’s abductors were looking for a way out.

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US Senate discreetly moves to renew AGOA through to end of Trump’s term

Trade lobbyists think the House is likely to adopt the two-year extension, as priorities turn to a full slate of election-year issues to address and just eight weeks in session before the end of the y...

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Poll: US lags behind China in African hearts and minds

The latest Afrobarometer survey of 38 countries reveals mixed perceptions of American economic and political influence even before the Trump administration’s aid cuts and visa bans.

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Massad Boulos courts Egypt’s anti-Ethiopian alliance in the Horn of Africa

The US Trump administration risks getting caught between an Egypt-Somalia-Eritrea axis on one side and an Ethiopia-Somaliland-Israel partnership on the other.

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US industry lobbies for South Africa and Ethiopia to stay in crucial trade deal

Fearing supply chain disruption and lost export markets, US trade associations demand a truce on political sanctions ahead of Agoa’s 2027 reauthorisation deadline.

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US cotton exports: Trump-proof solution or poison pill for AGOA?

The ‘America First’ push to replace Chinese-made fabrics presents a challenge and an opportunity for Africa’s textile industry.

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US-Africa Week Ahead: DRC’s Tshisekedi takes minerals fight with Rwanda to UN

The Congolese head of state is expected to preside over a high-level debate on the control and management of natural resources.

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Africans favour China over Trump’s US in latest Pew poll

Chinese leader Xi Jinping also outperforms his American counterpart on an individual level.

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Trump’s African witch hunt in the heartland of America

The Trump administration has unleashed a crackdown, rounding up immigrants, especially its African diaspora. The Africa Report speaks to Africans in Minnesota as well as those living in the shadow of ...

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Trump’s incoming Africa hand Frank Garcia inherits gutted diplomatic corps

Thirty-seven US missions across the continent are without an ambassador as Congress confirms Frank Garcia to be Assistant Secretary of State.

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People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S.

Views of China have improved recently while views of the U.S. have worsened, to the point where China is now seen more positively than the U.S. in most countries surveyed.

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US-Africa Week Ahead: Trump’s Africa envoy heads to West Africa as Washington courts Sahel juntas

Assistant Secretary of State Frank Garcia is travelling to Nigeria, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire for his inaugural trip to the continent, as the United States seeks to rebuild ties with the Alliance of Sahe...

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US-Africa Week Ahead: Trump’s Africa envoy heads to West Africa as Washington courts Sahel juntas

Assistant Secretary of State Frank Garcia is travelling to Nigeria, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire for his inaugural trip to the continent, as the United States seeks to rebuild ties with the Alliance of Sahe...

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South Sudan at 15: US decries ‘farcical’ process ahead of December elections

Fifteen years after independence, the world’s youngest nation is marking the anniversary with little to celebrate and dwindling international goodwill amid rising infighting between SPLM and SPLM-IO.

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Musk under fire as Lancet links USAID cuts to 14 million deaths

The world’s first trillionaire once bragged about feeding America’s aid apparatus ‘into the woodchipper’. Then the children started dying.

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From Libya to Ethiopia, Trump sides with Sudan’s genocidal RSF

The US says it wants to be an honest broker in the Horn of Africa. Its actions tell a different story.

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Ghana sued over Trump deportation deal in ECOWAS court case

A coalition of organisations has filed a landmark lawsuit before the ECOWAS Court over Accra’s role in a secret US deportation deal that could set new legal limits on Africa’s migration cooperation wi...

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DRC-Rwanda conflict: Tshisekedi to push UN resolution on mineral rights

Kinshasa will use its July UN Security Council presidency to advocate for an international legal framework as Kigali stands accused of pilfering its neighbours’ natural resources.

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DRC-Rwanda conflict: Tshisekedi to push UN resolution on mineral rights

Kinshasa will use its July UN Security Council presidency to advocate for an international legal framework as Kigali stands accused of pilfering its neighbours’ natural resources.

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