President Donald Trump shortly after assuming office halted the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ...

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Trump slammed South Africa’s new Expropriation Bill and said minority groups are treated very badly in the country. He signed an executive order halting United States foreign assistance to South ...

US-South Africa relations have been tense and difficult for several years, but with the advent of the Trump administration they have reached a critical ...

“There are lots of countries that have lots ... the core national interests of the United States.” About a quarter of USAID’s budget was devoted to Africa. A vast majority of the agency ...

The UAE rejects the charges. Reem Ketait, a foreign-ministry official, calls them a “cynical and baseless PR stunt” and ...