{"id":202032,"date":"2025-07-09T20:49:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-all-of-africa-today-july-9-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:49:34","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-july-9-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-all-of-africa-today-july-9-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; July 9, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><strong>Ramaphosa Slams Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Unilateral&#8217; 30% Tariff on\u00a0South African Goods<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"154\">South African President Cyril Ramaphosa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cpqn4w45dj3o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposed<\/a> the 30% tariff imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, calling it a &#8220;unilateral&#8221; move not supported by trade data.\u00a0Trump announced the new tariff, effective from August 1. It is the only country from sub-Saharan Africa that Trump singled out in his announcement, reflecting his strained relationship with Ramaphosa&#8217;s government.\u00a0 In a letter to Ramaphosa, Trump said South&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507090107.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Ramaphosa Slams Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Unilateral&#8217; 30% Tariff on\u00a0South African Goods South African President Cyril Ramaphosa opposed the 30% tariff imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, calling it a &#8220;unilateral&#8221; move not supported by trade data.\u00a0Trump announced the new tariff, effective from August 1. It is the only country from sub-Saharan Africa that Trump singled out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,11170,257,1135,254,6637],"class_list":["post-202032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-july","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}