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U.S. President Donald Trump is in Biarritz, France, for the G-7 summit, where he will be meeting world leaders who oppose his stances on many issues, including tariffs, Brexit, climate protection, China, Iran and Russia.<\/p>\n
But in this meeting of the leaders of the world\u2019s major industrialized countries, there could be areas of cooperation where Trump is willing to offer support, or at least not resist: women\u2019s empowerment and Africa.<\/p>\n
French President Emmanuel Macron, as the G-7 2019 president and summit host, has chosen combating inequality as the theme, with gender equality and partnership with Africa as key issues. He will be pushing several initiatives, including the Biarritz Partnership for Gender Equality and Partnership for the African Sahel. Macron also will be calling for renewed support for Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa.<\/p>\n
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Despite Trump\u2019s skepticism of foreign aid and his rejection of globalism, including his famous statement in front of the 2018 U.N. General Assembly that the U.S. \u201cwill not tell you how to live or work or worship,\u201d his administration has indicated it may support at least some of these initiatives, noting that the White House has launched similar efforts.<\/p>\n
On Sunday Trump will participate in a G-7 working lunch on inequality and a session on the partnership with Africa later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
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Biarritz partnership for gender equality<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier this year, Macron formed a G-7 Gender Equality Advisory Council whose members include Executive Director of U.N. Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and gender equality activist and actor Emma Watson. The council is tasked with identifying legislative measures worldwide to combat gender violence and discrimination, as well as to improve girls\u2019 access to education and support women\u2019s economic empowerment.<\/p>\n
Macron is pushing countries to join the partnership and adopt the laws and public policies identified by the council.<\/p>\n
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He also will call for renewed support for African women\u2019s credit financing through the Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa initiative, a pan-African mechanism to reduce the cost of accessing credit and bridge the $42 billion financing gap being faced by women on the continent.<\/p>\n
The White House has not announced whether it will sign on to any of the G-7 initiatives on gender equality. But a senior administration official told reporters that global women\u2019s empowerment is a \u201chuge priority for this administration\u201d and a message \u201cwe really want to drive home this weekend in France,\u201d citing the launch of the Women\u2019s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) initiative and commitment as a founding member to We-Fi, a partnership hosted by the World Bank Group to finance women entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n
W-GDP was launched by the White House in February 2019, and it is billed as \u201cthe first whole-of-government effort to advance global women\u2019s economic empowerment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president\u2019s daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, is leading the administration\u2019s efforts on global women\u2019s empowerment.<\/p>\n
Renewed focus on Africa<\/strong><\/p>\nAfrica is Europe’s immediate neighbor, and instability on the southern side of the Mediterranean has an impact on the northern side, with the migrant crisis being the most visible example.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, Germany and France are proposing a new partnership with Africa, including an initiative to enhance international commitment for the Sahel, a region facing multiple challenges ranging from the impact of climate change to the threat of terrorism.<\/p>\n
The G-5 Sahel countries are Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.<\/p>\n
Macron also has invited Senegal, Egypt, Burkina Faso, South Africa and Rwanda to join the G-7 countries in discussions about issues important to the continent.<\/p>\n
The formal invitation of African partners to the G-7 \u201copens an opportunity to drive forward key items on the African agenda, where priorities should be placed, how they should be financed, what the necessary coalitions for success are,\u201d Yvonne Mburu told VOA. Mburu is founder and CEO of Nexakli, a global network of African health professionals and member of Macron\u2019s Presidential Council of Africa.<\/p>\n
Mburu said the litmus test would be whether there will be measurable outcomes from the G-7 deliberations, and whether there is an accompanying mobilization of financial resources.<\/p>\n
Sahel Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\nAt the summit, G-7 leaders will be encouraged to join the Sahel Alliance, which seeks to economically develop the region and strengthen support for members\u2019 national security.<\/p>\n
The U.S. government has already expressed doubts about financing a new U.N.-backed mission in the Sahel, but it might be open to the new format of cooperation that the French team wants to discuss, said Karoline Postel-Vinay, a research professor at the Paris-based institute Sciences Po. \u201cHowever, as we now know, American foreign strategy seems predictably unpredictable,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Despite not outwardly obstructing the G-7 agenda on Africa, it\u2019s unclear how much substantive support the administration would provide.<\/p>\n
A White House statement ahead of the summit applauded the efforts of partners and the international community to promote peace and stability in Africa but did not mention whether the U.S. would provide additional economic or security assistance in the Sahel as called for by Macron.<\/p>\n
The White House instead pointed to its Prosper Africa private-financing initiative and the BUILD Act as proof of the administration\u2019s commitment. The law was passed in 2018 and aims to facilitate private capital in developing low-income economies.<\/p>\n
Analysts say the administration\u2019s policy on Africa is focused more on investment, in particular in the context of countering China.<\/p>\n
While it hasn\u2019t abandoned any of the pillars of focus that previous administrations have had on the continent, the Trump administration is \u201cdoing less with less,\u201d said Judd Devermont, director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe administration is running the traps on some of the security stuff,\u201d said Devermont, \u201cbut without the same robustness of previous administrations and certainly not anywhere near where we were in democracy and governance.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that Trump does not have the personal connection that President Barack Obama had with the continent, nor the interest in development that President George W. Bush had.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Trump scrapped a proposal to freeze more than $4 billion in foreign aid after objections from lawmakers of both parties and his own Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.<\/p>\n
Divisions elsewhere<\/strong><\/p>\nWhile there may be some consensus on gender equality and Africa, there clearly are deep divisions between members.<\/p>\n
For the first time in its history, this summit will not produce a joint communique amid deepening divisions between leaders over myriad issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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