Africa Policy after President Bush - Related In the News

Mugabe-Tsvangirai Power Share Yet To Be Realized.

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The Southern African Development Community met this weekend, but failed to secure a power-sharing deal between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Joel Barkan, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, offers details on Zimbabwe's political crisis.

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ICC Charges.

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

On this edition of Encounter, Jennifer Cooke, co-director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Colin Thomas-Jenson, policy advisor with the non-profit organization, ENOUGH, talk with host Carol Castiel about significance and implications of the move by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to bring charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity against Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir.

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Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa Program, was quoted by the Washington Post, "U.S. Scrambles to Address Intern

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The Bush administration and Congress have been caught flat-footed by rapidly escalating global food prices and are scrambling to respond to a crisis that they increasingly view as a threat to U.S. national security, according to government officials, congressional staffers and human rights experts. [ . . .]

J. Stephen Morrison, head of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the United States deserves credit for its generosity but should do far more in the current crisis. He and other experts said an outpouring of assistance could help repair the country's image in the wake of the Iraq war and other international controversies.

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