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We look at what will a second Trump term means for Africa - a continent the President has never visited and has openly denigrated.
Ivanka Trump visited Ethiopia in 2019 to promote the Trump administration’s $50 million Women’s Global Development and Prosperity initiative, funded through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She also met with women working in textiles and coffee, and headed to Côte d’Ivoire to meet with women working in the cocoa and coffee industries.
"We care," Melania Trump declared in 2018 during a visit to Egypt as first lady to promote her partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
"We care, and we want to show the world that we care, and I've partnered and am working with USAID," she continued. "And that's what I want to share -- that we care."
The first lady, Melania Trump’s visited Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Egypt in 2018. Both trips were seen as positive signs for U.S.-Africa relations.
On her four-country jaunt through Africa in 2018-- her first major solo international trip as first lady -- Melania Trump offered praise for what she described as "successful" USAID programs as she observed them up close.
In Malawi, for example, she handed out bags, school supplies and soccer balls as part of her "BeBest" initiative as part of a collaboration with a USAID literacy program.
Six years later, her husband, President Donald Trump, is working to dismantle the very programs his wife celebrated – and denigrating the aid agency that supported those initiatives as a "tremendous fraud."
Ivanka Trump visited Ethiopia in 2019 to promote the Trump administration’s $50 million Women’s Global Development and Prosperity initiative, funded through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She also met with women working in textiles and coffee, and headed to Côte d’Ivoire to meet with women working in the cocoa and coffee industries.
"We care," Melania Trump declared in 2018 during a visit to Egypt as first lady to promote her partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
"We care, and we want to show the world that we care, and I've partnered and am working with USAID," she continued. "And that's what I want to share -- that we care."
The first lady, Melania Trump’s visited Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Egypt in 2018. Both trips were seen as positive signs for U.S.-Africa relations.
On her four-country jaunt through Africa in 2018-- her first major solo international trip as first lady -- Melania Trump offered praise for what she described as "successful" USAID programs as she observed them up close.
In Malawi, for example, she handed out bags, school supplies and soccer balls as part of her "BeBest" initiative as part of a collaboration with a USAID literacy program.
Six years later, her husband, President Donald Trump, is working to dismantle the very programs his wife celebrated – and denigrating the aid agency that supported those initiatives as a "tremendous fraud."
