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South African Exports to Face 30% US Tariff as Trump Targets African Trade The United States has announced a significant increase in tariffs on imports from 20 African countries, with South African products facing the highest tarrifs of 30%. The new tariffs, which take effect on August 7, were revealed by President Donald Trump in a statement on Thursday. South Africa, the only country from sub-Saharan Africa to be singled out for the top-tier tariff rate, is expected to be severely impacted. The United States is South Africa’s second-largest trading partner, and the move threatens to disrupt key export sectors including automotive, agriculture, and mining. Neighboring countries Lesotho and Zimbabwe were also affected, though at a lower rate of 15%. Other African nations not included in the list will continue to face the 10% baseline tariff introduced in April. Side note: It's high time Africa starts to trade within, and stop waiting for western validation. It's time to have a single trade currency for the whole of Africa, just like the Euro which is used by European countries to trade. Africa should not wait for the West to dictate its future, Africa should decide its own future. Let's create a single African currency which we can use to trade within. It's time. #TheAfricanDream

The United States President Donald Trump has asked some African countries to accept deported migrants who are not Africans. According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States sent proposals to five West African presidents, asking them to take in migrants whose home countries won’t accept them. Nigeria has rejected the United States request, citing they have bigger problems at home. These are not citizens of those African nations, but people the U.S. wants to offload because their home countries have refused to take them back. Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar made the country’s position crystal clear: “We have enough problems of our own… We cannot accept Venezuelan deportees to Nigeria, for crying out loud,” he said. #TheAfricanDream #JTT #Jaconnaafrica #jagajagafrica #jajiotheteacher #Donaldtrumph #africaunit

Trump says any country that follows BRICS' "anti-American policies" will face an extra 10% tariff.

South Africa is not "anti-American" and still hopes to finalize a trade deal with the US, a trade ministry spokesman said. Kaamil Ali has told Reuters that the country's negotiations with the US remain "constructive and fruitful" and formal communication is pending. Ali's comments come after US President Donald Trump called BRICS, of which South Africa is a member, "anti-American" and threatened to impose a 10% tariff on nations aligned to the grouping. BRICS leaders are currently meeting in Brazil. South Africa has been in negotiationg for a trade deal with the US since May when President Cyril Ramaphosa visited Trump. According to the US president, several trade deals are in final stages and higher tariffs that will come into effect on August 1 will be announced this week. #DWafricaSocialMedia

USA - Africa : Trump to gost 5 African leaders U.S. President Donald Trump will host African heads of state for three-day summit in Washington, D.C., from July 9 to 11, 2025. The 5 countries invited are : 🇸🇳 Senegal 🇬🇦 Gabon 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau 🇱🇷 Liberia 🇲🇷 Mauritania A statement from a White House official stated that the goal of the summit is to explore business opportunities that would benefit both the United States and selected African nations. “President Trump believes African countries offer incredible commercial opportunities which benefit both the American people and our African partners,” the official said. Your thoughts about this ? #Africa #USA #TrumpAfricaSummit #jaconnaafrica #JTT #Jajiotheteacher

FBI goes after Nigerian scammers for defrauding U.S. President Donald Trump of 2025 inauguration funds The Federal Bureau of Investigation has filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize property belonging to Lagos-based fraudster Ehiremen Aigbokhan for stealing more than $300,000 in funds meant for U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration. The FBI is also actively pursuing an arrest warrant for Mr Aigbokhan in connection with a cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering scheme that targeted a donor intending to contribute to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee. According to legal filings, Mr Aigbokhan and his co-conspirators carried out a sophisticated fraudulent operation using the notorious Business Email Compromise scheme to trick their victims into sending money to cryptocurrency accounts belonging to them. #JTT #Jaconnaafrica #jajiotheteacher #jagajagafrica

US President Donald Trump has once again taken aim at Elon Musk, suggesting the billionaire would "head back to South Africa" if federal subsidies for electric vehicles (EVs) are cut. Trump’s jab follows Musk’s sharp criticism of the sweeping tax and spending bill known as the "Big Beautiful Bill," which includes proposed cuts to clean energy support. Musk has referred to it as "political suicide for the Republican Party." Trump has also threatened to investigate the subsidies received by Musk’s companies using the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—an agency Musk once led before stepping down in May. As senators push ahead with the bill, Musk has hinted he may launch his new political party, the so-called "America Party," the day after it passes. #DWAfrica

Iran Admits Nuclear Facilities ‘Badly Damaged’ By US Strikes Iran yesterday said its nuclear installations were “badly damaged” by US airstrikes, the first such comments by Tehran as debate grows over how much the bombardment managed to dent the Islamic Republic’s atomic programme. “Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that’s for sure,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told Al Jazeera TV in an interview, quoted by Bloomberg. Baghaei did not give further details and said authorities were still assessing the situation on the ground. He added that the US attacks were a “detrimental blow” to international law and the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to which Iran is a signatory. The comments are the first time an Iranian official has addressed the scope of damage caused by the June 22 strikes which involved US attacks on three nuclear facilities in Iran using more than a dozen 30,000-pound bombs. The comments came hours after US President Donald Trump disputed a US intelligence report that said the attacks had limited impact on Iran’s nuclear programme below ground. An assessment from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency said the bombing likely didn’t cripple the core components stored underground including centrifuges, according to people familiar with its contents. Commenting on the intelligence leak, Trump said the report was “very inconclusive” but that he still believed the sites were demolished, the Bloomberg report added. “The intelligence says we don’t know,” he told reporters at a NATO summit in the Hague. “It could have been very severe. That’s what the intelligence says. So I guess that’s correct, but I think we can take that we don’t know. It was very severe. It was obliteration,” he added. But International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said “very significant damage is expected to have occurred” at Fordow, Iran’s main uranium enrichment site which is built under a mountain. The IAEA has not had access to Iran since Israel started attacking Iran on June 13. Satellite images showed that US military planners were careful not to hit reactors at the Isfahan research facility which appeared to have been intentionally left untouched, according to four senior officials in Vienna. The Israel Atomic Energy Commission said the US strikes on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. It said both Israeli and US attacks set back the country’s ability to develop its nuclear weapons by “many years.” Trump brokered a ceasefire to end the 12-day war between Israel and Iran that appeared to be holding on Wednesday. The president had lashed out at both countries a day earlier, and particularly Israel, over what he said were early violations of the truce. Both nations have said they’ll honour the ceasefire provided their enemy does the same.

Israel-Iran war: Trump provides ceasefire details, as Israel, Iran react Al Jazeera reported that the White House believes negotiations began between Mr Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and after securing Israel’s agreement to halt its strikes, the president turned his attention to Iran. Mr Trump reportedly contacted the Emir of Qatar, requesting assistance in reaching Tehran. “I’ve got the Israelis, but we need the Iranians on side,” Mr Trump is believed to have told the Qatari ruler. The emir, along with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, subsequently engaged in a series of diplomatic efforts that eventually brought Iran to the negotiation table. However, Iran may have a different interpretation of how the ceasefire unfolded. According to Al Jazeera, a local Iranian media outlet reported that Mr Trump called Iranian officials, pleading for a ceasefire. follow us now on all social media #jajiotheteacher #jaconna #jagajagafrica

Iran Brought Israel On Their Knees, Now Begging For Ceasefire - Femi Fani-Kayode 👇👇👇 According to him "I congratulate the Islamic Republic of Iran for standing up to the Zionist bullies and Talmudic troublers of the world, teaching them the lesson of their lives, bringing them to their knees and forcing them to go running to their big brother America for help in the field of battle and to beg for a ceasefire. In its entire 77 year history the Zionist state has never suffered such shock, panic, trepidation, terror, infrastructural damage and shame and their cities have never been so savagely attacked and destroyed. They picked a fight with a strong and proud nation and got not just a bloody nose but a thorough beating. Never will they launch an unprovoked attack on Iran again. I thank God for the ceasefire and for the fact that lives will be saved. I commend the courage of the Armed Forces of Iran who were restrained in their military engagements and operations and who refused to commit atrocities, level Tel Aviv or Jerusalem to the ground or target civilians. Finally I commend the remarkable strength, faith and fortitude of Ayatollah Khameini @fr_Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, who kept his head held high throughout this war and inspired millions of people in Iran and indeed from all over the world with his humility, resilience and courage. He refused to bow to Bibi Netanyahu or Trump and his faith in God shielded him from death, harm and defeat. The Zionists and Americans not only failed in their objective to destroy all of Iran's nuclear enrichment plants and nuclear and ballistic missile threats, despite all pretentions to the contrary, but they also failed to kill Ayatollah Khameini, to effect regime change, to spark off a wider war in the Middle East, to take us one step closer to WW3 and to flatten the cities of Iran and slaughter its people in the same way as they have done in Gaza. I pray the ceasefire holds and I urge the Iranians to continue to be vigilant and to watch and to pray because the Zionists hate peace and cannot be trusted. Permit me to end with the following. I will continue to display and voice my utter and complete contempt and disgust for the child-killing, mass murdering, ethnic cleansing, genocidal, ethno-supremacist, fascist, racist, religiously fanatic, apartheid State of Israel as long as it continues to occupy the land of the Palestinians, to detain and torture the captives, to indulge in abominable and unspeakable practices, to bring turmoil to the Middle East, to bring war and destruction to its neighbours, to call its citizens God's chosen people and members of the master race and to slaughter the people of Gaza. I urge every right-thinking person who has managed to retain his or her humanity, who seeks justice, who cherishes peace, who loves God, who regards the Palestinians as human beings and who has a modicum of decency and compassion to do same. Until they refrain from their wicked ways and horrendous atrocities I shall continue to resist the sons and daughters of perdition, to expose the Ashkazi of Israel and the worshippers of Baal, to spit on their 'Star of Remphan' and to oppose the cult of the Synagogue of satan who falsely claim to be semites and Jews." (Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Sadaukin Shinkafi) -

💥BREAKING: 😳😱 After Assassinating Top Iranian Military and Nuclear Scientists, Israeli PM Netanyahu has accepted US President Trump's ceasefire deal and will be delivering a statement later today, says the PM's office