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African policymakers are scrambling to work out how their countries will be affected by the return of US President Donald Trump to the White House.

South Africa’s central bank governor, speaking in Davos, said Trump’s presidency could threaten the country’s economic recovery by pushing inflation beyond the central bank’s target level.
In Mauritius, a deal for the island-nation to secure control of the nearby Chagos archipelago from the UK needs Trump’s go-ahead because a US military base is located on Chagos’ largest island, Diego Garcia.

Washington may block the agreement due to the base’s strategic importance, according to The Diplomat.
Meanwhile, Trump’s executive orders for the US to withdraw from the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement will “make China more central” in Africa, analyst Cobus Van Staden told Voice of America.
