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Showing posts with label MCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MCC. Show all posts
Friday, October 31, 2025

Africa and the Trump Administration

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  AllAfrica.com posted on 23 October 2025 a commentary titled " Africa Should Not Expect Much from Donald Trump " by Johnnie Cars...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Trump Administration's Africa Policy: Filled with Challenges

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  Semafor posted on 21 May 2025 a commentary titled " Analysis: The Challenge with Trump's 'Trade Not Aid' African Strateg...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

DOGE Targets First Trump Administration's International Development Finance Corporation

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 Politico published on 28 April 2025 an article titled " DOGE Targets US Foreign Aid Agency Created under First Trump Administration ...
Monday, April 28, 2025

State Department Reorganization: For Efficiency or Kneecapping Foreign Policy?

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  The Hill published on 27 April 2025 an article titled " Rubio's State Department Scale-down: Efficiency or Global Retreat? ...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

How Dismantling U.S. Foreign Policy Institutions Appeases Russia (and China)

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  The New York Times published on 26 April 2025 an article titled " How Trump Plays into Putin's Hands from Ukraine to Slashing U....
Friday, April 25, 2025

Elon Musk Shuts Down Millennium Challenge Corporation

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  Politico published on 23 April 2025 an article titled " DOGE Is Shutting Down Foreign Aid Agency Millennium Challenge Corporation ...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Can the Remnants of USAID Be Merged Successfully into the State Department?

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 The Center for Strategic and International Studies published on 25 March 2025 an analysis titled " How to Successfully Merge USAID and...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Great Power Competition in Africa

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 This is the opening statement on 11 September 2024 of Acting Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, John Bass, on " Great Pow...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Trump Administration and Africa Policy

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Newsweek published on 22 February 2019 a commentary titled " Trump May Be About To Undermine Obama's Africa Policy " by Herma...
Friday, December 14, 2018

US Policy in Africa

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Tibor Nagy, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, testified on 12 December 2018 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on U...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Trump's Africa Policy

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Lobelog posted on 23 April 2018 a commentary titled " Trump's Africa Policy Is a Continuation of Clinton's, Bush's, and Ob...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Competing in Africa: China, EU and US

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Brookings published on 16 April 2018 an analysis titled " Competing in Africa: China, the European Union and the United States " b...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

How US Companies Can Compete with China in Africa

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The Atlantic Council in Washington released on 7 September 2017 two issue briefs concerning possibilities for doing business in Africa, espe...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Africa: The Obama Legacy and Prospects for the Trump Administration

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The VOA Encounter program with Carol Castiel ran over the weekend of 25 November 2016 a half-hour discussion of President Obama's legacy...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Africa and the Trump Administration: A Clean Slate

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The Hill published on 21 November 2016 a commentary titled " A Consensus Play: The Opportunity of Africa for a Trump Administration ...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

US Trade and Investment with Africa

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The White House published on 21 September 2016 a fact sheet titled " U.S.-Africa Cooperation on Trade and Investment Under the Obama Ad...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

China and the US in Africa

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The Biz Asia America program at CCTV asked me to comment on 6 August 2014 on the US-Africa Summit.  Most of the five minute program dealt w...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

New Initiatives During Obama Trip to Africa

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During his trip to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania from 26 June 2013 until 3 July 2013, President Barack Obama announced three key initia...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

"What Obama Needs to Do to Effectively Engage with Africa"

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I'm quoted in Brittany Hutson 's Atlanta Post article on President Obama and Africa. Here is the full text of the responses I sent...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

BBC Focus on Africa asks for analysis of Western relations with Ethiopia

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As the election approaches in Ethiopia on 23 May, the BBC Focus on Africa program asked on May 17 for my views on why the United States and ...