Source: SFGate
“During a White House meeting Wednesday, President Donald Trump promised West African leaders a pivot from aid to trade, as the region reels from the impact of sweeping U.S. aid cuts. Trump said he sees ‘great economic potential in Africa’ as the leaders of Liberia, Senegal, Gabon, Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau boasted of their countries’ natural resources and heaped praise on the U.S. president, including their thanks for his help in settling a long-running conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Trump described the nations represented at the meeting as ‘all very vibrant places with very valuable land, great minerals, and great oil deposits, and wonderful people’ — a definite shift from his first term, when he used a vulgar term to describe African nations. The meeting comes amid a shift in U.S. global and domestic priorities under Trump’s leadership.” (07/09/25)