Unfortunately, thereвЂ™s a problem - good healthcare or not, Nambia doesnвЂ™t exist. вЂњNambiaвЂ™s health system is increasingly self-sufficient,вЂќ Trump said approvingly at one point. In 2017, Trump displayed his ignorance or lack of interest in African countries when he spoke to African leaders at the United Nations and made not one but two references to a country called Nambia. The compact sought to improve the quality of education and training for underserved populations, and attempted to capitalise on NamibiaвЂ™s comparative advantages to increase the incomes of poor Namibians in the northern areas of the country. In July 2008, the Millennium Challenge Corporation signed a five-year, N$5.3 billion ($304.5 million) compact with Government to reduce poverty and accelerate economic growth. TrumpвЂ™s predecessorsвЂ™ (George W Bush and Obama) highlights during their tenure was a combined estimated investment of N$30 billion to the Namibian economy in contrast to TrumpвЂ™s N$1.5 billion ($89 million) in October to fight HIV/AIDS under the US PresidentвЂ™s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar).

Regardless of who wins the presidential race, the US foreign policy implications on Africa and Namibia in particular will be widely impacted. The controversial Gupta brothers, who migrated from India, have allegedly taken huge profits from South Africa in covert deals with politically connected officials at state-owned enterprises.V OTERS in America will decide on November 3 whether Donald Trump remains in the White House for another four years or his challenger Joe Biden, who is best known as Barack ObamaвЂ™s vice-president, will lead the Democratic Party as the next President. This perception is compounded in countries like South Africa and Tanzania, where foreign investors have been accused of looting. They are perceived as reaping profits without paying sufficient taxes or royalties, leaving Africans still struggling in poverty. Even the more recent Western investments in the African mining and oil sector are often resented. Since the beginning of the colonial era, they've seen Western companies journeying to Africa to exploit its resources and labour. It has a tremendous business potential and representing huge amounts of different markets.' 'I have so many friends going to your countries, trying to get rich,' Mr. He also praised Guinea and Nigeria for their response to the recent Ebola outbreak, apparently unaware that the main countries affected by the outbreak were actually Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.Д«ut his most controversial comments were on Africa as a potential source of wealth for Americans. Then he praised 'Nambia' for its 'increasingly self-sufficient' health system. He referred twice to the non-existent country of 'Nambia.' He mentioned it in his introductory greeting to the leaders. Trump held his first formal meeting with a wide range of leaders from every African region, including nine presidents. On Tuesday, as leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. In his first telephone calls with the presidents of Nigeria and South Africa, he spoke mostly about the fight against terrorism and offered weapons to Nigeria. Trump's few comments on Africa in the past eight months have suggested that he sees the continent mainly through the prism of terrorism. State Department, senior posts on Africa have sat vacant, while many ambassadorial jobs are still empty. His comments were significant, because he has said so little about Africa so far in his presidency. And it was a reminder that foreigners, for centuries, have become wealthy on the backs of impoverished Africans. Trump's words evoked a long history of colonialism and exploitation in Africa, still a raw subject here. One commentator, a South African named Mfanelo, said the comment was 'embarrassingly tone-deaf.' A man from Tanzania, Paul Mwasya, said Americans were 'using dubious one-sided contracts' to 'rob' the continent. It sparked an angry backlash on social media across the continent. Read also: Trump's UN speech a throwback to a darker world Trump's boast that his friends were rushing to Africa 'to get rich.'

What really bothered them, however, was Mr. (The White House later clarified that he had meant Namibia.) Trump's repeated references to the imaginary country of 'Nambia' вЂ“ apparently his muddled conflation of the countries of Namibia, Zambia and Gambia. They are accustomed to American ignorance of their continent, and so they chuckled wearily at Mr.

President Donald Trump accidentally invented a fictitious African country at his luncheon with African leaders this week, many ordinary Africans were amused but unsurprised.

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