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It’s Crunch Time for Africa in Trump’s Trade War

US President Donald Trump.

Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

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With just days to go until the US is due to impose punishing new tariffs on imports, not a single African nation has clinched a deal with Washington to soften the impact.