Africa: Twenty African Countries, Including Poorest, Hit with High Trump Tarrifs

The country that President Donald Trump declared “nobody’s ever heard of” during his 4 March address to Congress has been hit with the highest U.S. tariffs in the world. Lesotho tops the list of 20 African nations upon which the White House has announced what it calls “reciprocal” tariffs, which add to the baseline imposed on every country.

The executive order Trump signed yesterday lists levies applied to African nations, showing the worst-affected, after Lesotho’s 50 percent, are…