The US will provide more than $1.6 billion to Kenya’s health system under a new five-year agreement, the first of its kind after Donald Trump’s foreign aid cuts

In September , the US administration announced a new “America First Global Health Strategy” that calls for poorer nations to play a bigger role in fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and polio and eventually transition from aid to self-reliance

The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Kenyan President William Ruto signed an agreement on the bilateral compact in which Kenya pledged to increase its own health spending by $850 million over the 5 years

US officials said, other African countries are expected to sign similar deals

Meanwhile….

President Donald Trump led the signing of a peace deal between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the signing took place yesterday

The Rwandan President Paul Kagame and the Congolese Felix Tshisekedi affirmed commitments to an economic integration compact agreed last month, and to a U.S.-brokered peace deal reached in June