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South Africa accounts for 54% of all exports to the US under Agoa — a trade law which gives eligible African countries duty-free access to the US market for thousands of products including clothing, agricultural goods, crafts and manufactured items.
SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE

Understanding the first 160 days of Senate Foreign Relations Committee on African affairs and global health policy

Is there partisan agreement on the strategic priorities for African affairs and global health policy among the majority members?

  • Michael Walsh & Charles Ray
12 min read
There is strong bipartisan and beneficiary support for making improvements to Agoa.
AFRICA S BETTER FUTURE

African Growth and Opportunity Act: Early extension or substantive improvements?

There is good and bad news – strong bipartisan support for improving Agoa and little consensus on what improvements should be made to the Act

  • Michael Walsh
3 min read
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (Photo by Ting Shen-Pool/Getty Images)
ANTONY BLINKEN

Blinken heads to Nigeria facing calls to rethink ties

With 20% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population and its largest economy, Nigeria is critical for any continent-wide strategy and successive US administrations have courted Nigerian…

  • Shaun Tandon
3 min read
JESSE HELMS

Former US senator Jesse Helms dies at 86

Jesse Helms, an anti-communist firebrand who championed a wide range of conservative causes in his 30 years in the US Senate, died early on Friday.

  • Tom Ferraro
3 min read
BARACK OBAMA

Iraq testimony ignites new White House campaign spats

Hillary Clinton hit out at Democratic White House rival Barack Obama over Iraq on Wednesday, as a report by war commander General David Petraeus ignited new campaign brush fires.…

  • Stephen Collinson
3 min read
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

True to form, Bush refuses to budge on Iran

United States President George Bush is not known for changing his mind. Unmoved by the collective wisdom of the US intelligence community, he still insists that Iran is a threat,…

  • Tabassum Zakaria
3 min read
BUSH ADMINISTRATION

Surge is a failure, Democrats tell Petraeus

Anti-war Senate Democrats bluntly told Iraq commander General David Petraeus on Tuesday his troop surge strategy was an abject failure in its prime objective — forcing a…

  • Stephen Collinson
4 min read