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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?
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
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…
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.
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.…
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,…
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…