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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 ...

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

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’

August 3, 2022

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

Former Africa CDC director John Nkengasong sworn in Monday, June 13, 2022, as ambassador-at-large and coordinator of the U.S. global HIV/AIDS fight

John Nkengasong says 5.5 million babies have been born HIV-free because of PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

August 2, 2022

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is showing its impact with 5.5 million babies born HIV-free due ...

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/

Why Secretary Blinken is traveling to South Africa, DRC and Rwanda from August 7 through 12

August 1, 2022

The United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Mary Catherine Phee has explained in details why Secretary of ...

Mohamed Ould El-Ghazaouani, President of Mauritania

United States provides $11 million in humanitarian and economic assistance to Mauritania

July 29, 2022

The United States government announced on Thursday that it will be providing $6 million in new humanitarian assistance and $5 ...

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power

U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Africa has requested $7.767 billion in foreign assistance for Africa for fiscal year 2023 but many Africans say they have no idea what USAID is, does or spends its billions on

July 28, 2022

To some, it seems like a waste, money badly spent, the billions of dollars approved by the United States government ...

44-year-old Emmanuel Macron is visiting Cameroon and many hope he encourages 89-year-old President Paul Biya in power for 40 years to retire

July 26, 2022

French President Emmanuel Macron is in Cameroon for a three-day visit, the first leg of his three-nation African tour that ...

Former White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds her first press briefing as Press Secretary, Monday, May 16, 2022, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Hannah Foslien)

White House blasts Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s Africa tour: He’s ‘attempting to stem the onslaught of outrage against Russia’ after invading Ukraine and causing a global food crisis

July 25, 2022

The White House on Monday blasted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's African tour, asserting that he is "attempting to stem the ...

Lance Cpls. Chris C. Holloway and Dominic D. Walicki, and Pfc. Kenneth T. Martin, assistant crowd control instructors with 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, simulate a riot for the Burkina Faso partners they are training with during Exercise Western Accord 2012.

Amnesty International launches global campaign to confront unprecedented worldwide threat to the right to protest

July 18, 2022

Amnesty International lamented on Monday that the right to protest is under unprecedented and growing threat across all regions of ...

President Joe Biden holds a bilateral meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and his delegation, Thursday, October 14, 2021, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

United States and Kenya launch strategic trade and investment partnership

by Noah Pitcher

July 15, 2022