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January 6, 2022

Top Biden officials say former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo may soon announce new date and place for direct talks between Ethiopian warriors to resolve Tigray crisis, highlight key areas in new U.S. strategy for Africa

August 11, 2022

Blinken wraps up second African trip with very difficult conversation in Rwanda over wrongful detention of U.S. resident Paul Rusesabagina who inspired the film ‘Hotel Rwanda’

August 13, 2022

Demonstrators storm Trump Tower in New York City, want former president arrested immediately for allegedly concealing classified documents that prompted an F.B.I. raid: ‘No one is above the law’

Few people may know his name in the United States but Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Gregory Obi has set off a real movement in Africa’s most populous nation

August 15, 2022

Peter Gregory Obi

THE GROWING MOVEMENT

Few people may know his name in the United States but Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Gregory Obi has set off a real movement in Africa’s most populous nation

August 15, 2022

Peter Gregory Obi was only six years old on July 6, 1967, when a devastating civil war between the government of Nigeria and...

Blinken wraps up second African trip with very difficult conversation in Rwanda over wrongful detention of U.S. resident Paul Rusesabagina who inspired the film ‘Hotel Rwanda’

August 13, 2022

President Donald J. Trump disembarks Marine One at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, and boards Air Force One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

Judge unseals search warrant and inventory showing F.B.I. recovered 11 sets of classified documents from Trump’s home with some marked as “top secret”, materials only meant to be kept in secure government facilities and containing identities of sources

August 12, 2022

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanmon Ghebreyesus speaks during the Strategic Roundtable discussion "A Healthy Return: investing in a sustainably financed WHO" on 23 May 2022 at the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Expert reports have highlighted the mismatch between what the world needs from WHO and, in particular, its role leading the multilateral response to health emergencies, and the way it is currently funded. In January 2021 the Working Group on Sustainable Financing was set up to look afresh at the issue and it makes substantive recommendations in a report to be discussed at this Assembly. The discussion included the formal launch of A Healthy Return: investing in a sustainably financed WHO, the new WHO investment case. It also spotlighted the Results Report 2020-2021 For a Safer, Healthier and Fairer world as an example of the commitment of the Secretariat to enhanced accountability, transparency and reporting on results. https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2022/05/23/default-calendar/strategic-roundtables-seventy-fifth-world-health-assembly

Monkeypox: experts give virus variants new names

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August 12, 2022

President Donald J. Trump joins U.S. Army Cadets during the 121st Army-Navy football game Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, at Michie Stadium at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

F.B.I. was reportedly looking for nuclear documents in Trump’s home, shocking report says

August 11, 2022

President Donald J. Trump walks with Presidential Advisor Ivanka Trump and his son Donald J. Trump Jr. to board Air Force One at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Ga. Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2021, for their return flight to Joint Base Andrews, Md. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)

Outraged U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says U.S. Justice Department has filed motion to unseal search warrant following raid on Donald Trump’s home amid wild claims and outright misinformation

August 11, 2022

Left to Right: Mary Catherine Phee, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and Judd Devermont, the U.S. Special Assistant to President Biden and Senior Director for African Affairs at the White House National Security Council

Top Biden officials say former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo may soon announce new date and place for direct talks between Ethiopian warriors to resolve Tigray crisis, highlight key areas in new U.S. strategy for Africa

August 11, 2022

Paul Biya

Human Rights Watch accuses Cameroonian soldiers of killing 10 civilians, detaining 26, forcibly disappearing 17, burning 12 homes and looting health facilities in troubled northwest region

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August 11, 2022

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (right) with General Michael Langley, the commander of the U.S. Africa Command, in Stuttgart, Germany, on August 9, 2022.

Peace and Security

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warns China attempting to undermine America in Africa while Russia is ‘peddling cheap weapons backing mercenary forces’ to ‘sow chaos’ and destroy ‘the rules-based international order’

August 10, 2022

General Stephen Townsend (right), outgoing commander, U.S. Africa Command, hails General Michael Langley, incoming commander, U.S. Africa Command, during a change of command in Stuttgart, Germany, on August 9, 2022. Townsend who led U.S. Africa Command since July 2019, retired following the ceremony after a U.S. Army career spanning four decades. Photo: Staff Sgt. Breanne Donnell.

U.S. Africa Command conducts three airstrikes against al-Shabaab in Somalia, four terrorists dead

August 10, 2022

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on August 9, 2022. [State Department Photo by Freddie Everett/

In Kinshasa, Blinken emphasizes longstanding U.S.-DRC ties, peace with Rwanda, human rights and need for free and fair elections in 2023

August 10, 2022

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk across the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, before boarding Marine One to begin their trip to Florida. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

Trump pleads the Fifth, refuses to answer questions in deposition with New York Attorney General on alleged fraud as his problems multiply

August 10, 2022

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Margaret C. Whitman

U.S. Ambassadors to Africa

Billionaire businesswoman Margaret Cushing Whitman assumes office as U.S. Ambassador to Kenya amid political transition

João Lourenço of MPLA (left) and Adalberto Costa Júnior of UNITA (right)

African Presidents

Top U.S. Senators call for free, fair and peaceful election in Angola on August 24, urge all political parties not to use violence ‘whatever the outcome of the vote’

Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi, President of Botswana, speaking in the Press Conference: Launch of Davos Friends of Africa Growth Platform at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 21st January. Media Centre - in the Press Conference Room. Copyright by World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek

African Presidents

Antony Blinken discusses U.S.-Botswana ties in phone call with President Mokgweetsi Masisi ahead of U.S.-Africa summit in December

José Eduardo dos Santos with George W Bush at the White House in 2004. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

African Presidents

Late Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos leaves behind mixed legacy of peace, poverty and corruption

President Buhari with R-L: President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Sierra Leone Julius Bio, DG Ops World Bank Alex Van Trotsenburg, President of Senegal Macky Sall, President of Congo Denis Sassou-Nguesso, President of Liberia George Weah and President of Guinea Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo at the Programme of International Development Association (IDA) Summit for Africa in Dakar, Senegal on July 7, 2022. Bayo Omoboriowo/State House.

African Presidents

In Senegal, African leaders vow to respond to multiple crises to achieve continent’s economic transformation in partnership with World Bank

Colonel Mamady Doumbouya

African Presidents

After 10 months of military control, Guinean acting president Colonel Mamady Doumbouya still expected to transition nation toward democracy

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U.S. commends Chad over signing of peace agreement in Doha

Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno has been functioning as Chad’s head of state since leading a coup d’etat in April of 2021....

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visits the Hector Pieterson Memorial with YALI Alumni in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 7, 2022. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett

Blinken says the new U.S. strategy is ‘rooted in the recognition that sub-Saharan Africa is a major geopolitical force’ that ‘will shape our future’

United States Secretary Antony J. Blinken on Monday unveiled the Biden administration's new strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa in a speech...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an art and cultural engagement at Victoria Yards in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 7, 2022. [State Department Photo by Freddie Everett /

Blinken says he’s not in Africa to counter Russia or China or start a new Cold War but to strengthen U.S.-Africa ties

United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken says he is not in Africa to counter Russia or China or...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visits the Hector Pieterson Memorial with YALI Alumni in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 7, 2022. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett/

Biden administration unveils new U.S. strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa focused on four main objectives but no concrete steps to counter Russia and China

The United States will pursue four main objectives in Africa, the Biden administration said on Monday while unveiling a new...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an art and cultural engagement at Victoria Yards in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 7, 2022. [State Department Photo by Freddie Everett

U.S. details how it is fighting food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa as Blinken visits continent to win hearts and minds and counter China and Russia

The United States government on Monday detailed the steps it has taken so far to combat food insecurity in Sub-Saharan...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visits the Hector Pieterson Memorial with YALI Alumni in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 7, 2022. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett

17 U.S. and Congolese organizations and experts say Blinken’s visit to DRC will test America’s support for democracy and human rights

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At least 17 U.S. and Congolese organizations and experts on Monday called on United States Secretary of State Antony J....

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visits the Hector Pieterson Memorial with YALI Alumni in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 7, 2022. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett

Antony Blinken arrives in Africa on a three-nation tour to strengthen ties, counter Russia and China and confront human rights abuses and global food crisis

United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has arrived in South Africa on a three-nation tour to strengthen ties...

Lt. Gen. Michael E. Langley, the head of Marine Forces Command and Marine Forces Northern Command, and commanding general of Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, takes notes while touring the dock landing ship Gunston Hall March 25 prior to its deployment. (Casey Price/Marine Corps)

Marine Corps Lieutenant General Michael E. Langley to lead U.S. forces in Africa starting this week

Marine Corps Lieutenant General Michael E. Langley will begin leading U.S. forces in Africa starting this week. He is replacing Army General Stephen Townsend...

Approximately 690,000 flags are seen on the National Mall as part of an art installation to honor American lives lost to COVID-19, Wednesday, September 29, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Yash Mori)

It’s 24 years today since al Qaeda bombed two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 Americans and Africans on August 7, 1998

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It is 24 years today since Al Qaeda bombed two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people and...

Antony Blinken (Left) and Linda Thomas-Greenfield (Right)

Top Biden officials Antony Blinken and Linda Thomas-Greenfield begin Africa tour to strengthen ties, counter Russia and China and confront global food crisis and human rights abuses

Blinken will travel to South Africa August 7-9, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on August 9-10 and Rwanda on August 10-12. It will...

John Kirby and Simon Ateba

Law firm representing hundreds of Kenyan victims of the 1998 terrorist bombing by Al Qaeda writes White House spokesman John Kirby over heated exchange with journalist Simon Ateba: ‘Your remarks have been interpreted to reflect a lack of American interest in the losses suffered by our Kenyan friends and allies’

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A law firm representing hundreds of Kenyan victims of the 1998 terrorist bombing of the American embassy in Nairobi by...

President Joe Biden boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, May 11, 2022, en route to Joint Base Andrews. (Official White House Photo by Carlos Fyfe)

U.S.-Africa ties: Biden names team to lead monkeypox response as U.S. provides $88 million in humanitarian assistance to Sudan and Samantha Power discusses crises across Africa

Ties and interactions between the United States and Africa strengthened again in the past few days. On August 1, Billionaire...

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President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai attend the Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month Reception Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai to host sub-Saharan African trade ministers during US-Africa Leaders’ Summit in December

U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) CEO Scott Nathan (left) with Access Bank Managing Director Roosevelt Ogbonna during a ceremony to commemorate the signing of a commitment letter for $280 million in financing for Access Bank Plc in Lagos on Monday.

US DOLLARS FOR NIGERIA

U.S. International Development Finance Corporation boosts small businesses in Nigeria with $280 million loan to Access Bank

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Senegalese Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 2022. [State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha/

Alice Albright to lead U.S. Prosper Africa delegation to the U.S.-Africa Business Summit

Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo hold a press briefing Monday, November 9, 2021, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Erin Scott)

THEIR FACES, THEIR NAMES

Here are the 24 members appointed to President Biden’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa

David Malpass, under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs, smiles as President Donald Trump announces his nomination to head the World Bank, during an event in the Rosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Free trade pact could help lift up to 50 million Africans from extreme poverty with women seeing the biggest gain, new World Bank report says

João Lourenço of MPLA (left) and Adalberto Costa Júnior of UNITA (right)

African Presidents

Top U.S. Senators call for free, fair and peaceful election in Angola on August 24, urge all political parties not to use violence ‘whatever the outcome of the vote’

Top United States Senators on Tuesday introduced a Senate resolution calling for free, fair, and peaceful elections in Angola on...

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U.S. Ambassadors to Africa

Billionaire businesswoman Margaret Cushing Whitman assumes office as U.S. Ambassador to Kenya amid political transition

Billionaire businesswoman Margaret Cushing Whitman assumed office as the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya on August 1, 2022, as the East...

José Eduardo dos Santos with George W Bush at the White House in 2004. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

MIXED LEGACY

African Presidents

Late Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos leaves behind mixed legacy of peace, poverty and corruption

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Former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos passed away Friday at the age of 79, leaving behind a mixed and...

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