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African policymakers are bracing themselves for the return of Donald Trump. Having swept the Republican primaries, polls consistently put the former US leader neck-and-neck with incumbent Joe Biden in a presidential rematch. Yet, a Trump victory could end up guaranteeing climate disaster for Africa and the world, and Europe must take note. Of course, at the forefront of most African leaders’ minds is Trump’s undisguised racism, embodied in his expletive-filled rant denigrating African nations back in 2018. He had also gutted practically all climate funding for dedicated USAID programmes in Africa — programmes initiated under Barack Obama that were crucial...

Wim Duisenberg, the former head of the European Central Bank, has been found dead in a pool at his villa in south-east France, French police say. Police have not yet given a cause for his death, but say he was found on Sunday morning in the town of Faucon. The former Dutch finance minister was the ECB's first president, and oversaw the introduction of the single European currency, the euro. The 70-year-old had stepped down in 2003 after five years in the job. Under Mr Duisenberg, the euro moved from a market-traded currency to coins and notes in the pockets...