{"id":238699,"date":"2026-07-14T18:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-top-us-officials-scheduled-visit-to-nigeria-highlights-trump-administrations-approach-to-west-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:33:05","slug":"africa-top-us-officials-scheduled-visit-to-nigeria-highlights-trump-administrations-approach-to-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-top-us-officials-scheduled-visit-to-nigeria-highlights-trump-administrations-approach-to-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Top US Official&#8217;s Scheduled Visit to Nigeria Highlights Trump Administration&#8217;s Approach to West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nigeria, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Mali show how Washington is navigating security, commerce and sovereignty in a changing West Africa regional order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">For Nigeria, the US Department of State&#8217;s Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Frank Garcia&#8217;s first official trip to Africa is worth watching closely. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AsstSecStateAF\/status\/2075696286523703496\">His planned visits<\/a><\/strong> to Nigeria, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Mali say a great deal about how the Trump administration wants to work with West Africa. It signals working less by preaching, more by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607140472.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Mali show how Washington is navigating security, commerce and sovereignty in a changing West Africa regional order. For Nigeria, the US Department of State&#8217;s Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Frank Garcia&#8217;s first official trip to Africa is worth watching closely. His planned visits to Nigeria, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Mali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[23757,258,256,10111,6183,6555,8250,1218,257,4687,6651,18141,254,7319,6264,6250,4375],"class_list":["post-238699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-administrations","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approach","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-highlights","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-officials","tag-scheduled","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-trump","tag-visit","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238699","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=238699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}