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Africa’s dictators looking at Trump missteps and smiling

The internet has made it possible that we get news from across the world in real time and wherever we are. But nothing beats being in the country where it is all happening as it happens, for perspective.

It is one thing to follow news of Donald Trump (pictured) and his antics from afar, and another to see it up close, as I do currently from Washington DC. It is even far scarier as one flips through TV channels and reads newspapers.

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