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Bureau of African Affairs Officials Continue Their Quest to Help Foster Enduring Peace, Reconciliation, and Economic Development in Africa



Assistant Secretary Kansteiner, left at podium, and Minister of Trade and Industry Jacob Nkate, right at podium, at dedication of Southern Africa Trade Hub for Global Competitiveness Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Walter H. Kansteiner III speaks at dedication of the Southern Africa Trade Hub for Global Competitiveness


Then-Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Walter H. Kansteiner III visited Gaborone, Botswana on May 8 to help dedicate the Southern Africa Trade Hub for Global Competitiveness, one of three such centers in sub-Saharan Africa. Then-Assistant Secretary Kansteiner (left photo, left at podium) joins Botswana's Minister of Trade and Industry Jacob Nkate (left photo, right at podium) at a press conference following the dedication. During his dedication remarks, Then-Assistant Kansteiner said that in October 2001, President Bush at the African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum announced the U.S. would open trade centers to encourage Africa to export goods all over the world. Joining the other two Competitiveness Hubs in Ghana and Kenya, the new Hub in Botswana would help get all of sub-Saharan Africa to better prepare its goods and services to compete in world markets: Europe, Intra-Africa, North America, and the Far East. (Photo by U.S. Embassy Gaborone, May 8, 2003)  

       

Assistant Secretary Kansteiner, second from left, and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Dr. Peter Watson, second from right, during visit to Sierra Rutile Ltd. Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Walter H. Kansteiner III, center, tours Sierra Rutile Ltd. in anticipation of its planned reopening.


Then-Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Walter H. Kansteiner III and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Dr. Peter Watson, visited Sierra Leone during March 31-April 1, 2003. In addition to meeting with President Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone about peace and security issues, the team was in country to explore the planned reopening of Sierra Rutile Ltd., a rutile mine that was the country's largest tax payer, private sector employer, and foreign export earner prior to its closing in 1995 during the war.  (Photos by U.S. Embassy Freetown, April 2003)  

  

President Omar Hassan El-Bashir of Sudan, at right, greets the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army leader John Garang, at left, after they issued a joint communiqué following their meeting at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 2, 2003. The talks were chaired by President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, at center.

The United States is assisting both parties to the Sudanese conflict in a peace process underway in Kenya. President Omar Hassan El-Bashir of Sudan (right) greets the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army leader John Garang (left) after they issued a joint communiqué following their meeting at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 2, 2003. The talks were chaired by President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki (center). The meeting of the two leaders may signal a lasting peace following a tragic, 20-year civil war in Sudan. (AP photo, April 2003)

  


(From left to right) Ambassador Robert V. Royall, Then-Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Walter H. Kansteiner III, Under Secretary for Management Grant S. Green, Jr., and Tanzanian Vice President Ali Mohammed Shein do the honors of cutting the ceremonial ribbon and officially opening the new U.S. Embassy office building in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on March 4, 2003.  The former Embassy building was destroyed in a terrorist attack on August 7, 1998, killing 11 Tanzanians, including eight Embassy employees, and injuring 72 Americans and Tanzanians. (Photo by U.S. Embassy Dar es Salaam, March 4, 2003) From left to right, Ambassador Robert V. Royall, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Walter H. Kansteiner III, Under Secretary for Management Grant S. Green, Jr., and Tanzanian Vice President Ali Mohammed Shein do the honors of cutting the ceremonial ribbon and officially opening the new U.S. Embassy office building in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on March 4, 2003.

 


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