The Official Blog of Amb. David H. Shinn

The Washington Post published on 21 September 2026 an exclusive analysis titled " How Trump Turned a Refugee Bureau into a $410 Millio...

  Radar Africa published on 10 September 2026 an article titled " Russia to Open Eight New Cultural Centres across Africa ." Russ...

 The BBC posted on 5 July 2026 an article titled " The African Fishermen Who Blame Chinese Trawlers for Their Woes " by Ed Butler...

 The Africa Center for Strategic Studies published on 17 March 2026 an analysis titled " Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Market Cap...

 Gallup just released its " World Happiness Report 2026 " that assesses 147 countries from 2023 through 2025.  The 2026 edition hi...

 The Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford published the World Happiness Report 2025 .  The focus of this year's report ...

  The Calabash Newspaper published on 24 October 2025 an article titled " To Boost Sierra Leone-China Trade Relations . . . Vice Presi...

  China-Africa Security Radar posted on 24 August 2025 an article titled " China's Recasting of Safe Cities in Africa ." A Ch...

 The White House published on 4 June 2025 a fact sheet titled " President Donald J. Trump Restricts the Entry of Foreign Nationals to P...

  Reuters published on 18 November 2024 an article titled " Russia Vetoes UN Security Council Action on Sudan War " by Daphne Psa...

 The massive World Happiness Report 2024 is now available online, published in partnership with Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centr...

 The South China Morning Post published on 2 March 2024 an article titled " Sierra Leone Leader's Visit to China Shines a Light on...

 The China Global South Project published on 15 December 2023 an article titled " The Chinese on the Lion Mountain: Peering into China...

 The Centre for International Governance Innovation published in October 2023 a study titled " Navigating Africa's Digital Partners...

 Doublethink Lab and the China in the World network have published a cross-regional ranking to measure China's overseas influence throug...

 The South China Morning Post published on 30 April 2023 an article titled " China Donates Patrol Boat to Sierra Leone to Tackle Illeg...

 Afrobarometer has just published changes in perceived influence of the United States and China in 27 African countries from 2019 until 2022...

 The Foreign Policy Research Institute published on 29 August 2022 an analysis titled " Political Training Under the Belt and Road Init...

 India's Economic Times published on 12 May 2022 an article titled " China Expands Defence Supplies with African States " by ...

 The UN General Assembly voted on 7 April 2022 to expel Russia from the UN Human Rights Council because of its human rights abuses in Ukrai...