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  • 3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Ruth Maclean |Saikou Jammeh

    Seven of the 12 countries on President Trump's new list are on the continent, where some said the policy was discriminatory and would unfairly affect their future. When Africans woke up to the news this week that seven of the 12 countries on President Trump's new travel ban list were African nations, the response, for many, was a mix of resignation and anger.

  • 3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Ruth Maclean |Saikou Jammeh

    Not much links the nations. What did the nations of Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, the Republic of Congo and Sudan have in common, until they were all put on President Trump's travel ban list Wednesday night? They are all African countries. But beyond that, not much links them. They are scattered across the continent, spanning desert and tropical forest. Some are democracies (in name at least) and some are under military rule, some have a heavy terrorist presence and others do not.

  • 3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Saikou Jammeh |Ruth Maclean

    After slashing foreign assistance and introducing steep tariffs, the Trump administration is proposing a new tax on remittances. African nations would be among the hardest hit. The Trump administration's "One Big, Beautiful Bill" could make the United States the most expensive of the Group of 7 countries from which to send money, dealing another blow to poor nations already reeling from recent aid cuts.

  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Ruth Maclean

    President Trump claimed on Wednesday that his administration was close to brokering peace in the war between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, two African nations with a long history of conflict. He made the remarks at an Oval Office meeting with South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa. Mr. Trump said that Massad Boulos, the State Department's senior adviser for Africa and the father-in-law to Tiffany Trump, had helped settle the war.

  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Ruth Maclean |Saikou Jammeh

    A former prime minister and presidential candidate, Succès Masra, was detained by a government that has used the security forces and judiciary to quash opposition. A major opposition leader and former prime minister of Chad was arrested early Friday, fueling fears of another crackdown on dissent in a country that has repeatedly used state power to silence critics.

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