“We are actually selling directly on Russian marketplaces ourselves,” a sales manager at BMG International, a company registered in Dubai, told Al Jazeera.
so far, which, according to the American Presidency Project, is more than any other US president in their first 100 days in office.An executive order is a directive issued by the president to federal agencies that has the force of law but does not require congressional approval.
On January 20, his first day in office, Trump signed 26 orders, which included pardoning more than 1,500 people convicted on January 6, 2021, Capitol riot charges; withdrawing from the World Health Organization; and renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.The majority of Trump’s executive orders have focused on immigration and border security as well as energy and trade.How many people were pardoned?
Since returning to office, Trump hasmore than 1,500 people, including his supporters convicted in connection with the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot after he lost the 2020 presidential election. Other notable pardons include Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, who was serving a sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
DOGE cuts and layoffs
Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created by Trump through an executive order on January 20, in which he gave DOGE a mandate to slash government spending., saying that the justice system was “an instrument of oppression for a dictatorship desperately trying to survive”.
The 53-year-old, who denies supporting the Rwanda-backed rebels who have seized two major cities in the country’s conflict-battered east, has been in self-imposed exile since 2023.The former president, who has repeatedly said he was returning from exile to help find a solution to the crisis, accused Kinshasa of taking “arbitrary decisions with disconcerting levity”.
Congo’s Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to grant the government’s request to lift theKabila – leader of the country from 2001 to 2019 – had enjoyed because of his honorific title as “senator for life”.