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The Southern Times
April 13, 2018
Historically, America's real influence and presence in southern Africa might be scanty but it has always had serious vested interest in Zimbabwe. As recently remarked by the US acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Donald Yamamoto, in a Reuters interview, Zimbabwe has always been onÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 13, 2018
The U.S. has no ambassadors to 15 African countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt and South Africa. No permanent successor to Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Donald Yamamoto has been named. And former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's firing immediatelyÃâà...
Black Star News
April 13, 2018
However, US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazier over-ruled him, probably because the Bush II administration was preparing to invade Somalia and needed Museveni's military help. VM: By writing your book, you are making a major contribution to the struggle for freedom in Uganda.
LobeLog
April 13, 2018
What is more, even as it pursues a militarised strategy, the administration has neglected diplomacy. A year into the administration, there is no confirmed assistant secretary for African affairs, eleven African ambassadorships are unfilled, and there is too little evidence that the U.S. government has a strategicÃâà...
Voice of America
April 12, 2018
The U.S. has no ambassadors to 15 African countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt and South Africa. No permanent successor to Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Donald Yamamoto has been named. And former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's firing immediatelyÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 11, 2018
Tillerson enforced hiring freezes that made it very difficult for the department to bring in new talent or even rotate and promote employees on a regular schedule. He failed to fill many critical positions that make the department tick, especially at the assistant secretary, undersecretary, and ambassador levels.
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 30, 2018
Forty-one U.S. embassies and missions lack leaders, including 11 embassies in Africa, while the State Department still does not have a permanent assistant secretary for African affairs. Worse still, U.S. President Donald Trump is openly disparaging: His recent derogatory comments about Africa play to theÃâà...
Defense One
March 28, 2018
The Africa-sized gap in U.S. strategic thinking must be closed with comprehensive policy before it threatens the interests of Americans and Africans alike. Unfortunately, U.S. foreign policy toward Africa has stalled. No appointed official has filled the post of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs sinceÃâà...
Face2Face Africa
March 22, 2018
President Donald Trump has his eyes set on the African diaspora after recalling former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – from his administration's first top diplomatic tour of Africa – to fire him. A statement by the State Department issued last week (March 19) disclosed that Ambassador Donald Y.
African Arguments
March 19, 2018
Even now, key Africa posts in the State Department remain unfilled, including that of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Pompeo's nomination to replace Tillerson is probably bad news for those who want to see the US energise its engagement and lay out a comprehensive set of policies andÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 19, 2018
“To a person, we felt the department was in need of reform,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a 35-year veteran diplomat and former assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told Bloomberg in the fall. They withdrew their welcome, however, when, in Thomas-Greenfield's words, they came to “understand” thatÃâà...
NPR
March 11, 2018
MARTIN: Over the next few minutes, we'll take on each of these threats and we're going to start with Linda Thomas-Greenfield. She served as ambassador to Liberia and as assistant secretary of state for African affairs under Presidents Obama and Trump. Ambassador, welcome. Thank you so much forÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
March 9, 2018
Major cuts in the U.S. budget to both aid and diplomacy threaten important economic and social programs supported by the U.S. In addition, important diplomatic posts, such as the ambassador to South Africa and the assistant secretary of State for African Affairs remain unfilled. The administration's decisionÃâà...
University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 8, 2018
Her career in the U.S. foreign service spanned 35 years, most recently as assistant secretary for African affairs in the Obama administration. Thomas-Greenfield was nominated jointly by the Department of Political Science and the African Studies Program. “She began her career as a scholar of Africa at theÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 7, 2018
But as Rex Tillerson departs for his first trip to Africa as secretary of state, Trump is eyeing appointing a retired career diplomat to be next assistant secretary of state for African affairs, four sources close to the administration and former State Department officials tell Foreign Policy. Tibor Nagy, a retired foreignÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 5, 2018
"Three of the countries house three of the four largest US embassies in Africa," explained Yamamoto, acting assistant secretary of state for African affairs, during a press briefing ahead of the trip. Those countries — Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria — already have strong ties to the US, and as Yamamoto pointedÃâà...
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
December 31, 1999
There has not been a permanent Secretary of State for African Affairs since January 2017, but in December, the Defense Department named Alan Patterson its new Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs. Patterson is another CIA alum, who was previously in charge of clandestine operations in Africa.
550 KTSA
December 31, 1999
He asked Trump who is responsible for not filling the posts of Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Ambassador to UN Mission to Geneva, Ambassador to Human Rights Council, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Ambassador to ASEAN, Ambassador to Jordan, Turkey,Ãâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
"Where is the nominee for Ambassador to South Korea? Where is the nominee for Assistant Secretary for African Affairs? Where is the nominee for Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs?" Menendez blitzed out in a tweet storm that challenged the President on multiple empty slots at State and inÃâà...
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