African leaders welcomed Donald Trump’s election with hopes for fruitful partnerships, yet expectations remain low. U.S. policy has long sidelined Africa, focusing mainly on countering Russia and China, said Charles Ray, Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Africa Program chair. Ray noted that while President Biden called Africa a key partner, little action followed. Trump's “transactional, ego-driven” approach will likely deprioritize Africa, leaving it at the “very bottom” of his agenda, Ray added.
Samih Sawiris, the Egyptian billionaire and CEO of Orascom, a Cairo-based infrastructure and construction giant, is pursuing a $400 million
Egypt’s Foreign Minister has criticized Israel’s seizure of Syrian territory on the Israeli border after the fall of
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Doctors Without Borders, known also as MSF, has warned of a ‘rapidly escalating’ outbreak of cholera; a total of 737
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