{"id":1034634,"date":"2026-09-12T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034634"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:27:46","slug":"trump-administration-to-lend-100-million-to-africell-countering-huawei-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/trump-administration-to-lend-100-million-to-africell-countering-huawei-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration to lend $100 million to Africell, countering Huawei in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Trump administration will lend nearly $100 million to Africell, Africa&#8217;s only American-owned telecoms firm, as it seeks to counter the expansion of China&#8217;s Huawei in Africa, according to a person familiar with the matter and a draft press release reviewed by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The loan from the Export-Import Bank to Africell will &#8220;enable Africell to invest in the latest mobile network \u200ctechnology from American \u2060and \u2060allied suppliers,&#8221; according to the draft release, which is due to be issued later on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Trump administration will lend nearly $100 million to Africell, Africa&#8217;s only American-owned telecoms firm, as it seeks to counter the expansion of China&#8217;s Huawei in Africa, according to a person familiar with the matter and a draft press release reviewed by Reuters. The loan from the Export-Import Bank to Africell will &#8220;enable Africell to invest in the latest mobile network \u200ctechnology from American \u2060and \u2060allied suppliers,&#8221; according to the draft release, which is due to be issued later on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034635,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034634\/revisions\/1034635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}