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That tension hung over a major trade conference between the U.S. and African countries that started in Johannesburg this week, after President Biden announced that he was suspending four nations from a critical trade program that aims to promote economic development in Africa.

A bipartisan group of American lawmakers has asked the Biden administration to punish South Africa for what they see as the country’s support of Russia’s war in Ukraine by moving a major trade conference scheduled to be held in South Africa this year to another country.

At the weeklong trade conference, major Hollywood studios put on splashy presentations to assure the people who play their movies, from the biggest chains like AMC to single-screen independent theaters, that they have the content to keep audiences buying movie tickets.

The trade conference went well enough that Clinton coaxed Mitchell into taking on a more direct role, as his envoy to the region.

When the inaugural Good Food Connections trade conference kicks off Monday, more than 250 farmers, fishermen, ranchers, restaurant owners, food producers, chefs and buyers from the Seattle area will gather in one location for the first time to network and exchange ideas about how to strengthen the local food economy.