Africa

The 64th UN General Assembly meeting is under way in New York, with its centerpiece event, the ministerial session, due to begin on Wednesday, September 23. African leaders are filing into Washington, D.C., and New York City over the coming days in preparation for the annual flurry of diplomatic activity and their chance to address world leaders at UN headquarters.

On Wednesday, September 16, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) concluded a five-year, $540-million compact with Senegal. The agreement was signed at a meeting in Washington, D.C., between the U.S. secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton—who chairs the MCC—and the Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Africa trip, August 3 to 14, features a tough and demanding agenda: she will be visiting dangerously conflicted Kenya, Congo, and Nigeria; holding a brief exchange with a Somali transition government close to succumbing to a radical Islamist movement affiliated with al Qaeda; reassuring unsteady postwar Liberia; and opening a dialogue with a newly

This study argues that the future security environment will be dominated by unconventional threats and challenges that lie outside the boundaries of traditional warfighting. This is the new defense and national security status quo. And the dominant demand on key defense actors in this new status quo will be the active management of persistent unconventional conflict.

Nowhere are global public health challenges more acute than in sub-Saharan Africa. With just 13 percent of the world’s population, this region carries 24 percent of the global burden of disease. The continent’s immense disease burden and frail health systems are embedded in a broader context of poverty, underdevelopment, conflict, and weak or ill-managed government institutions.

U.S. policy toward Africa underwent a dramatic expansion under the tenure of President George W. Bush, marked by unprecedented resource flows, a major diplomatic effort in Sudan, and the establishment of historic initiatives in health, development, and security.

Chapter 3 from Chinese Soft Power and Its Implications for the United States.

There is no military balance in North Africa in the classic sense of the term. Although rivalries and tensions persist among Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, no state in the Maghreb now actively prepares for war with its neighbors, and the prospects of such conflicts are limited at best.