{"id":36869,"date":"2018-01-26T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T10:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trump-and-kagame-are-going-to-get-along-great-usa\/"},"modified":"2018-01-29T17:51:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:51:24","slug":"trump-and-kagame-are-going-to-get-along-great-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-and-kagame-are-going-to-get-along-great-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Kagame are going to \u2018get along great\u2019-USA senator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inhofe believes the meeting could be a landmark event. The intersection of Trump and Kagame represents a once-in-a-generation chance to realize Inhofe\u2019s decades-long vision for wholesale changes in the way the United States deals with Africa, he told me in an interview.<\/p>\n

The idea that Trump might succeed in building new strategic ties with Africa where others have failed might seem unlikely. The president reportedly used an expletive to disparage the continent. He is skeptical of foreign aid and U.S. involvement abroad. But Inhofe argues that Kagame\u2019s drive for African self-reliance meshes well with Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d ideology.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really fits perfectly together with President Trump\u2019s agenda, and he has an opportunity to be a real hero here in an area that I don\u2019t think many people are aware of \u2014 but more people are becoming aware of it,\u201d Inhofe told me. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis meeting is significant, and I think they\u2019ll get along great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inhofe told Trump that Kagame represents the type of African leader the president can do business with. If Trump and Kagame use their time together to get on the same page, he said, big things could happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe timing is right. We have a new administration that\u2019s got a totally different attitude,\u201d Inhofe said. \u201cIn Africa, they have this reputation of asking for handouts. Kagame wants to end that. And I think that\u2019s just great. So I wanted to make sure the president was aware of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inhofe envisions new relationships between the United States and sub-Saharan African countries that move away from a donor-recipient model toward peer-to-peer partnerships. That would mean rethinking foreign aid, focusing on big trade deals and deepening ties to African leaders who are in a position to deliver, despite human rights concerns and other worries.<\/p>\n

Inhofe gave a long speech on the Senate floor Tuesday praising Kagame and explaining Kagame\u2019s vision for Africa and African relations with the world. Kagame \u201cwants to end the days of reliance upon foreign governments to solve their problems,\u201d Inhofe said in the speech.<\/p>\n

That message could not be better tailored for Trump.<\/p>\n

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This Friday in Davos, President Trump will meet Rwandan president and African Union chairman Paul Kagame, an encounter with potentially huge consequences for the U.S.-Africa relationship. On Wednesday, Trump prepped for the meeting by speaking with the Senate\u2019s self-described \u201cpoint man for Africa,\u201d who happens to be Kagame\u2019s close friend \u2014 Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[2899],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-josh-rogin"],"bylines":[{"id":2899,"name":"Josh Rogin","slug":"josh-rogin","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2899,"name":"Josh Rogin","slug":"josh-rogin","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36869"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36869"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}