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Date: 01/20/2009 Description: Blue envelope icon, used for email subscriptions. State Dept Photo

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's Travel to Africa
Secretary Clinton began a seven-nation trip to Africa on August 5 at the 8th U.S. – Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum (known as the AGOA Forum) in Nairobi, Kenya.  View Trip Page

U.S. Department of State Surpasses Target of 75,000 Trained Peacekeepers by 2010
(July 23): As of this month, the Department of State’s Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) has succeeded in training and equipping more than 81,000 new peacekeepers, and has facilitated the deployment of nearly 50,000 peacekeepers to 20 United Nations and regional peace support operations to secure the peace and protect at-risk populations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Lebanon, Somalia and Sudan.  Full Text