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The last four years have seen Donald Trump show disinterest, if not disdain for the continent. Also, a referendum on constitutional reform in Algeria sees record low turnout. And the daughter of a Rwandan once hailed as a hero of his country&#8217;s 1994 genocide says the international community is overlooking the shady circumstances that saw her father snatched from his life in the US and thrown into jail back in his homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1535,1076],"tags":[57,292,1003],"class_list":["post-72917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","tag-africa","tag-donald-trump","tag-us","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>African stakes in US polls - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/african-stakes-in-us-polls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"African stakes in US polls - GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With votes still being counted from the US presidential election, we take a look at the stakes for Africa. 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