Trumps Approach To Africa: More Trade Deals, Less Democracy And Human Rights

From Christmas strikes in Nigeria to peace deals and talks of trade, the US presidents diplomatic approach to the continent has been all over the place When he convened the leaders of and the to sign a peace deal in early December, promised an end to decades of fighting in the latter nations , and open up opportunities for businesses in all three countries to make a lot of money. But Trump took a wildly different approach to conflict resolution weeks later, when he announced that the US military had carried out Christmas Day on targets he said were linked to the Islamic State IS in north-west Nigeria. I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was, the president wrote in a social media post that warned of further attacks to come.