Tag: Africa

For weeks now, egged on by his South African-born mega-billionaire advisor Elon Musk, U.S. President Donald Trump has been ratcheting up a campaign to inflict damage on South Africa, a ...

On Wednesday in the Oval Office, U.S. President Donald Trump received South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa. Their initially friendly banter quickly gave way as Trump levied false claims over a ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa goes to the White House, Sudan’s army chief appoints the country’s first prime minister since ...

The Trump administration’s first 100 days in power signaled a sharp and dramatic reorientation of the U.S. relationship with Africa. Public health forecasting models estimate that that the administration’s grave ...

Amid the shock, condemnation, and derision that have met the Trump administration’s early steps on the international stage, a moment of rare cheer came during a speech by U.S. Energy ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Afrikaners touch down in Virginia as refugees, a federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deporting migrants to Libya, ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: A hospital bombing raises fears that South Sudan has returned to civil war, Morocco tries to woo its junta-led neighbors ...

Massad Boulos, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for Africa policy, told Reuters on Thursday that the administration wants the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to sign a ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: The Trump administration oversees a peace plan between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Turkey sends troops to ...

Before the 2024 U.S. election, some African leaders privately rooted for the transactional, business-friendly environment that they envisioned under U.S. President Donald Trump in a second term. They expected that ...