Bloomberg US President Donald Trump offered praise for outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and both leaders may speak by phone next week. Abe is arranging to talk with Trump on Monday, and plans to convey directly his plans to step down as prime minister as well as stress the importance of the US-Japan alliance under a new leader, Kyodo ...

Bloomberg Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye’s pledge to undertake wholesale reform has raised hopes the East African nation is emerging from the turmoil of his late predecessor’s authoritarian rule. Ndayishimiye has spoken of overhauling the economic and political landscape and opening up the landlocked country that was reduced to an international pariah during Pierre Nkurunziza’s 15-year stranglehold on power. Unlike the ...

Bloomberg South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is considering making changes to his cabinet after he meets the ruling party’s leadership, people familiar with the deliberations said. The meeting could be a showdown between the president and his rivals within the African National Congress (ANC), the people said, asking not to be identified as a public statement hasn’t been made. Ramaphosa ...