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President Obama’s troubling dinner party
By Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times The Obama administration erred on the side of inclusion in deciding which leaders to invite to its ambitious U.S.-Africa summit this week — at least in the view of human rights advocates.. The guest list featured some of Africa’s nastiest tyrants, including autocrats such as Angola’s Jose Eduardo dos
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Murderer’s Row: Why this week’s Africa Summit needs to pay more than just lip service to human rights and good governance
Human Rights Watch By Daniel Bekele Three notorious African leaders – Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, Eritrea’s Isaias Afewerki, and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir – are not invited to this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. But a number of other long-ruling African strongmen, like Angola’s José Eduardo dos Santos, Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, will be there. In fact, over a dozen African countries which will be
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US-Africa: Make Human Rights Central to Summit
Human Rights Watch Obama Should Press African Leaders to End Repression (Washington, DC) – US President Barack Obama should ensure that human rights concerns are a major focus of the US-Africa Leaders Summit, Human Rights Watch said today. Rights concerns should not be relegated to meetings in the margins of the summit. The theme of
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Is the US still giving aid money to Africa’s dictators?
Devex By Lorenzo Piccio Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and U.S. President Barack Obama converse at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland. While Addis Ababa remains one of the largest U.S. aid recipients in sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. aid flows to Ethiopia have fallen sharply over the course of the Obama administration. Photo by: Pete Souza Five years
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Billions of dollars in deals and funding to be announced at Africa Summit
Reuters By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will announce nearly $1 billion in business deals, increase funding for peacekeeping and commit billions of dollars to expanding food and power programs in Africa during a summit this week, U.S. and development officials say. U.S. officials said the Aug. 4 to 6 summit in
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Bill Clinton, Michael Bloomberg at Africa summit
Politico By MIKE ALLEN Bill Clinton will moderate the opening session of the U.S.-Africa Business Forum, which Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Commerce Department are co-sponsoring in Washington on Aug. 5 — the middle day of a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit hosted by President Barack Obama. The summit is expected to draw more than 40 African heads
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Why is Obama hosting African dictators?
By Dula Abdu About to become a lame duck President, Obama is holding a roundtable discussion on Africa with African leaders. I guess better late than never. It is scheduled to be held on August 5-6 in Washington, D.C. Many of the African leaders bring lots of baggage of crony capitalism, anti-Gay legislation, corruption, abuse
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U.S. Policy Today For Africa Tomorrow: A Conversation With Ambassadors Carson, Lyman And Moose – Video
USIP hosted a conversation with Ambassadors Carson, Lyman, and Moose on U.S.-Africa Engagement on July 22, 2014.
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MAP: The U.S. military currently has troops in these African countries
BY ADAM TAYLOR President Obama’s announcement that United States has deployed 80 troops to Chad came as a surprise to many. But as my colleague Craig Whitlock points out, the United States already has boots on the ground in a surprising number of African countries. This map shows what sub-Saharan nations currently have a U.S. military presence engaged
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