With 20% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population and its largest economy, Nigeria is critical for any continent-wide strategy and successive US administrations have courted Nigerian leaders since the restoration of civilian rule in 1999.
The United States is negotiating with African countries that will see them exchange Palestinian people’s rights for improved economic and trade conditions
Top US official is lobbying multinational firms to invest in South Africa
During his African tour this past week, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked up Washington’s ability to stimulate growth and entrepreneurship on the continent.
Ties have deteriorated after an American precision drone strike killed Iran’s Major General Qasem Soleimani
Trump faces the possibility of becoming only the third US president ever impeached by Congress
Opposition leader Juan Guaido will make a fresh bid on Saturday to rally Venezuela’s armed forces behind him with protests at military bases
Tensions in Venezuela have been ratcheted up after Juan Guaido announced on January 23 that he was the acting president under the constitution.
Volodymyr Zelensky, whose only previous political role was playing the president in a TV show, trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko
US policymakers have grown exasperated with Pakistan for not doing more against Islamist extremists
Humanitarian aid, much of it from the United States, has become the centrepiece of the standoff between Maduro and Guaido
The top US diplomat held talks with King Salman and his son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
The US Secretary of State walks a diplomatic tightrope amid pressure from American lawmakers for a tough response on Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
The initial pullout promise sparked outspoken opposition from within Trump’s Republican party
The world’s biggest hotel chain revealed its network had been hacked in November, affecting 500-million people
The two countries are grappling with how to handle the thousands of Central American migrants who are camped at the common border
Turkish police on Monday searched the Saudi consulate in Istanbul for the first time since Khashoggi went missing
Mike Pompeo departed from Tokyo, where he spent the first leg of a tour that will include stops in Pyongyang, South Korea and China
The high-stakes verbal sparring is reminiscent of the exchanges Trump had last year with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
The US is seeking to tighten the economic screws on Iran, abandoning a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and reimposing stringent sanctions
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed the threats, saying the rest of the world no longer accepts Washington making decisions on their behalf