Team of rivals Subscriber Meet the lawmakers handling Trump’s US Africa policy While President Donald Trump is unilaterally transforming America’s foreign policy with his blustery threats and chaotic unravelling of the $40bn-a-year US aid agency, the divided and diminished Congress still plays a major role in shaping Africa policy.

strategic expansion. CFAO Kenya to invest $7.7m in Kenya Vehicle Manufacturers to boost local assembly The motor dealer increased its stake in KVM to 98% following the divestment of Chinese company CMC Holdings and the Kenya Treasury.

1 day ago · “What president Trump said is not true. There’s no expropriation taking place,” Steenhuisen told The Africa Report in Cape Town just before President Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation address Thursday.. Steenhuisen wanted to distance his party from the Trump administration’s blunderbuss condemnation of the government and its freeze on funding.

Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and the UAE expand their footprints Leveraging their vast resources, the oil-rich Gulf Arab states and Ankara have been making inroads in Africa, boosting investments and spreading polit...

Africa: Latest articles on The Africa Report.com. Changing guard. Trump’s State Department pick Marco Rubio lays out vision for Africa From countering China to investing in fossil fuels, the US senator from Florida offered insights into the incoming administration’s priorities for the...

5 days ago · The capture of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, by the M23 is widely seen as the most significant escalation in the conflict in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2012 when the group last seized Goma.. The UN at the time said Rwanda was helping create, arm and support the M23. That triggered international reactions as Kigali’s donor partners including the ...

concrete, roads and grids. We are still stuck with borders carved at the Berlin Conference, says Otchere-Darko As delegates gather in Accra for the African Prosperity Dialogues (APD) 2025, attention is fixed on whether the continent’s threadbare infrastructure ...

Jan 30, 2025 · “South Africa’s military presence in the eastern DRC is not a declaration of war against any country or state,” Cyril Ramaphosa insisted in a statement Wednesday. Yet, in that same note, he accused the M23 rebels and the Rwandan army — dismissed as a “militia” — of attacking the peacekeepers sent by SAMIDRC.

Jan 28, 2025 · “[Energy and energy access] isn’t traditionally a sector where the private sector invests, so we have to find financial models that make commercial investment viable, and I think this is entirely possible [because] renewable energy is a valuable resource,” says William Asiko, vice president for Africa at the Rockefeller Foundation. “Everybody agrees that …

Jan 2, 2025 · Will ADO contest again? The guessing game has been going on for at least 18 months, since Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara joked in August 2023 at the opening of the fifth Abidjan bridge: “This bridge is worth several more terms.”. In power since 2010, Quattara, 82, was reelected for a third term in the contested 2020 polls, after saying months earlier he would not run.