Point One

United States President Donald Trump prides himself as an ace dealmaker. He boasts that with his art of dealing, he could overawe any other world leader into terms that advantage his own country, including juggernauts like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, even enfant teribles  like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Not that he has demonstrated this as a proven fact, though.  He just signed off on a pact to end the war his administration has waged with Iran, and it isn’t so certain he got the best for America and allied interests. Actually, many perceive the pact as tilted in Iran’s favour and not justifying the exertion on a four-month-long war that came out stalemated. Trump signed the 14-point pact dubbed  memorandum of understanding at a post-Group of Seven Industrialised Nations (G7) dinner in France on Wednesday. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed from Tehran, even as a ceremony was fixed for Geneva to formalise the signing at the w...

Kenyan nationals are fighting a defining battle for their dignity, sovereignty and public health concern. They’re up in arms against a decision by President William Ruto to host a quarantine bay in the East African country where the United States could send Americans exposed to Ebola virus for isolation, rather than admit them on American home soil. U.S. President Donald Trump struck a deal with Kenya’s Ruto to open the facility at Laikipia Air Base, a few miles outside Nanyuki in central Kenya and some 150 miles north of the capital city of Nairobi.  The Kenyan citizens’ struggle is instructive because it highlights the question as to what African countries should be willing to give in payback for conditional benefits from Washington. Besides, there is the question of national honour: whether another sovereign country should accept being a dump site for Washington’s rejects. Kenyan President Ruto signed off on such deal, but the citizens are saying no. Hundreds of Kenyans took to ...