African Businesses Plot Trump-Proof Path as Confidence Builds

WATCH: South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana discusses trade negotiations with the US and the impact of President Donald Trump’s false claims that White Afrikaner farmers are being subjected to a genocide.Source: Bloomberg

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By Alexander Parker

November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM UTC

African nations are starting to adjust to Donald Trump’s new world order and investors are taking notice.

Since returning to the White House in January, the US president has halted most aid to the world’s least-developed continent and imposed hefty import tariffs on a range of its products.