Reed authored legislation creating a pathway to US citizenship for thousands of Liberians. Amo’s connection is personal: his parents immigrated to Rhode Island from Liberia and Ghana.

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Trump’s tariff campaign of tariff hikes, aid cuts, boycotted meetings and repeated criticism has triggered turmoil in South Africa

A mining deal in the Congo could put the United States on the hook for security without a corresponding payoff in the long run.

Donald Trump has criticised the Smithsonian Institution. He claims its exhibits focus on negative US history, like slavery. Trump believes museums are too "woke". His administration is reviewing museum content.

A mother shares a video of her son showing a picture of Donald Trump saying that he is his father leaving the internet amused.

Rwanda, Eswatini, and South Sudan are among the poorest nations in the world, with per capita incomes just a tiny fraction of their former colonial rulers in Europe. Expecting them to carry the burden of America’s deportees is not only unjust – it is absurd.

Trump's focus on resettling Afrikaners could upend the precedent around the refugee program, which for decades had bipartisan support.