The Official Blog of Amb. David H. Shinn

  The Diplomat published on 4 May 2026 a commentary titled " What China's AI Push Can Teach Africa about the Future of Labor ...

 The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), the organization that represents personnel in the State Department and other international...

  The Foreign Service Journal published in its April/May 2025 edition an article titled " Lives Upended: The Impact of USAID's Dis...

Politico published on 11 March 2025 an article titled " How Americans May Feel the Slashing of USAID " by Nahal Toosi and Krystal...

 The UK-based Centre for African Conflict and Development posted on 22 July 2024 a 44-minute podcast with me titled " Austerity Measure...

  Aljazeera posted on 8 March 2024 a 20-minute podcast titled " The Take: Sudan's New Normal " with Hiba Morgan, Aljazeera...

 Ethiopia Insight published on 30 January 2024 a commentary titled " Four Years Later, Tigray Is Unrecognizable " by an anonymous...

Ethiopia Insight posted on 4 May 2020 a story titled " Amid Lockdown Fears, COVID-19 Threatens Ethiopia's Urban Poor " by Yar...

The Washington Post Monkey Cage published on 16 October 2018 a commentary titled " African Countries Have Started To Push Back against...

The Royal United Services Institute posted on 5 June 2018 a commentary titled " Ethiopia's New Leader: So Far So Good, But Mountain...

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) published on 1 December 2017 an account titled " Path of Insecurity for Migrants Leaving the H...

The BBC ran a story on 24 August 2017 titled " Can Ethiopia Be Africa's Leading Manufacturing Hub? " Drawing heavily on the...

The New York Times published on 22 July 2017 an article titled " For Ethiopia's Underemployed Youth, Life Can Center on a Leaf ...

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) published on 20 June 2017 a commentary titled " As Doors Close To Refugees, Ethiopia's Sta...

Quartz Africa published on 30 April 2017 a story titled " Chinese Migrants Have Changed the Face of South Africa. Now They're Leav...

The Mogadishu-based Heritage Institute for Policy Studies recently published a public opinion survey titled " A Memo for Somalia's ...

The Sustainable Development Solutions Network has posted online its World Happiness Report 2017 . It contains a chapter titled " '...

The African Studies Association annual conference took place in Washington and included a panel session on 3 December 2016 concerning the cu...

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) reprinted on 28 June 2016 an analysis that was originally published by the World Economic Forum tit...

Afrobarometer published in June 2016 a study titled " Violent Extremism in Africa: Public Opinion from the Sahel, Lake Chad, and the H...