
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is scheduled to visit Africa, but as Okoye writes, "the US may say it cares about Africa, but words are cheap." (Photo: Getty)
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link\">\"pilotless plane and a family boutique\"--and it is the people who are suffering. In the province of Kasai alone, for example, more than one million people have been uprooted from their homes in the wake of anti-government revolts. Katumbi has also threatened to call for street protests unless Kabila leaves the presidential palace by the end of the year. The DRC is a pressure cooker and Trump's measures are eroding the integrity of its already weakened gasket. The situation in another of Haley's destinations, South Sudan, is not much better. The country may have recently marked the sixth anniversary of its independence but there was very little to celebrate. It is, according to the UN, facing its \"highest ever level of food insecurity.\" Around two thirds of the population, 7.5 million people, are in need of humanitarian assistance and in some places, half the population is malnourished. This is in part due to what Oxfam calls the \"hostage situation,\" that sees the wider population at the mercy of the havoc wreaked by the government of the newest nation on earth and rebel forces. And, as Trump's administration slashes funding for Africa, this havoc is unlikely to end any time soon. For the US may say it cares about Africa, but words are cheap (and in Trump's case, often not even accurate). It's actions that matter and the actions of the current administration show they do not really care; they are happy to sit back while countries like the DRC burn. We can no doubt look forward to more mealy-mouthed sentiment when the consequences of this begin to reverberate around the continent.","author":{"@type":"Person","description":"Uju Okoye is a Toronto-based researcher focused on African politics.","identifier":"25375979","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMTk4MjYyMi9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc2Njg3NzE5MH0.HRwMYNNWHSKEV7RD9NfFzVNRttthTA86-az4gFAXOMY/image.png?width=210"},"name":"uju-okoye","url":"https://www.commondreams.org/author/uju-okoye"},"dateModified":"2017-10-04T15:30:00Z","datePublished":"2017-10-04T15:30:00Z","description":"Trump's aim of "reducing costs at any cost" leaves Africa's myriad hotspots even more vulnerable than they already are","headline":"Nikki Haley's Trip to Africa Will Be Exercise in Hypocrisy","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","height":"600","representativeOfPage":"True","url":"https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/united-states-ambassador-to-the-united-nations-nikki-haley-is-scheduled-to-visit-africa-but-as-okoye-writes-the-us-may-say-it.jpg?id=32269660&width=1200&height=600&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C31","width":"1200"},"isAccessibleForFree":"True","mainEntityOfPage":"https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/10/04/nikki-haleys-trip-africa-will-be-exercise-hypocrisy","publisher":{"@id":"https://www.commondreams.org/","@type":"Organization","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","height":"511","url":"https://assets.rbl.ms/32373543/origin.png","width":"1501"},"name":"Common Dreams","sameAs":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Dreams","https://www.facebook.com/commondreams.org","https://twitter.com/commondreams"],"url":"https://www.commondreams.org/"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":["h1",".widget__subheadline",".social-author",".body-description"]}},{"@id":"https://www.commondreams.org/","@type":"Organization","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressCountry":"USA","addressLocality":"Portland","addressRegion":"Maine","postalCode":"04112","streetAddress":"PO Box 443"},"alternateName":"CommonDreams.org","contactPoint":{"@type":"ContactPoint","availableLanguage":"English","email":"info@commondreams.org","telephone":"+1-207-775-0488","url":"https://www.commondreams.org"},"ethicsPolicy":"https://www.commondreams.org/ethics-policy","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","height":"511","representativeOfPage":"True","url":"https://assets.rbl.ms/32373543/origin.png","width":"1501"},"name":"Common Dreams","nonprofitStatus":"Nonprofit501c3","publishingPrinciples":"https://www.commondreams.org/publishing-principles","sameAs":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Dreams","https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0010146/","https://www.facebook.com/commondreams.org","https://twitter.com/commondreams","https://www.instagram.com/commondreams/"],"telephone":"207-775-0488","url":"https://www.commondreams.org/"}]}
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