Category: Donald Trump

By Juan Jose Rodriguez Panama on Tuesday marked the 25th anniversary of the United States handover of its interoceanic canal, a milestone overshadowed by President-elect Donald Trump's threat to demand control be returned to Washington. ...

By Juan Jose Rodriguez Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino ruled out negotiations with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump over control of the Panama Canal on Thursday, denying that China was interfering in its operation. Mulino also ...

Incoming U.S. president Donald Trump on Saturday slammed what he called unfair fees for U.S. ships passing through the Panama Canal and threatened to demand control of the waterway be returned to Washington. He also hinted at China's growing influence around ...

The foreign policy and national security teams that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated are far more hawkish towards China than his previous administration was, prompting speculation by leading experts that Washington's approach to Africa will focus primarily on countering Beijing's influence on the continent.

Donald Trump will be back in the Oval Office in just over a month after he is inaugurated for his second term as U.S. president on January 20th. While there's concern in some African capitals that Trump may scale back U.S. ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on the BRICS group nations if they undercut the U.S. dollar. "We require a commitment... that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency ...

By Dave Clark What does U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's imminent return to the White House mean for Africa, a continent that he largely dismissed in insulting terms during his first presidency? Despite the undiplomatic rhetoric, ...

Pity poor Angola. President João Lourenço placed a multimillion-dollar bet on hiring expensive Washington, D.C. lobbying firms to put his southern African country on the U.S. agenda. Whatever they did worked because, over the past several years, Angola seemingly became the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion to the Sudanese and Israeli prime ministers in a call last weekend that Egypt might "blow up" the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam if Cairo and Addis Ababa can't reach a settlement, is not sitting well at all in Ethiopia. ...

When U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began his Africa trip in mid-February, it was clear that countering China's influence on the continent was at the top of his agenda. Yet from Senegal to Angola, he restrained himself from the hard-hitting ...

While Donald Trump may not be very popular in most parts of the world, not so in several of Africa's largest countries, according to new survey data from the Pew Research Center. Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa all recorded much higher levels of ...

What little Donald Trump has said about Africa during his first year in office as U.S. president has not exactly been very positive. Comments about Nigerians living “huts,” making up a