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Bureau of African Affairs
	Remarks                                              Reports/Fact Sheets            Visits       2000 1999 1998 ||| Economic Policy ||| 2000 1999 1998 ||| 2000 1999 1998
Niamey: Woman vendor Djibouti: Melon vendors Ouagadougou: Residents from Lokosso village     Country Web Sites Angola | Benin | Botswana | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Cameroon | Cape Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | Comoros | Congo, Dem. Rep. of | Congo, Rep. of | Cote d'Ivoire | Djibouti | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Gabon | Gambia, The | Ghana | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Kenya | Lesotho | Liberia | Madagascar | Malawi | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Mozambique | Namibia | Niger | Nigeria | Rwanda | San Tome and Principe | Senegal | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Somalia | South Africa | Sudan | Swaziland | Tanzania | Togo | Uganda | Zambia | Zimbabwe	Remarks December 2000 12/12/00: Anthony Lake, Special Envoy for Ethiopia and Eritrea, Press Briefing at the Presidential Palace, Algiers, Algeria 12/12/00: Secretary Albright, Press Briefing Aboard Plane En Route Budapest, Hungary (Africa trip) 12/12/00: Secretary Albright, Remarks Following Meeting with Algerian President Bouteflika, Algiers, Algeria (Ethiopia/Eritrea) 12/12/00: Secretary Albright, Remarks at Ethiopia/Eritrea Peace Agreement Ceremony, Algiers, Algeria 12/11/00: Secretary Albright, Press Remarks with Foreign Minister Mompati Merafhe, Gaborone, Botswana 12/11/00: Secretary Albright, Remarks Remarks at Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Clinic, Gaborone, Botswana 12/11/00: Secretary Albright, Remarks at Signing of Education for Development and Democracy Initiative, Gaborone, Botswana 12/10/00: Secretary Albright, Remarks at Business Roundtable Port Louis, Mauritius 12/10/00: Secretary Albright, Press Remarks with Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth, Port Louis, Mauritius 12/10/00: Brooks Yeager, Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Negotiations, INC-5, Johannesburg, South Africa (Closing Statement) 12/09/00: Secretary Albright, Press Remarks with Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma, Pretoria, South Africa 12/08/00: Secretary Albright, Press Briefing at Sheraton Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa 12/08/00: Secretary Albright, Press Remarks Following Visit to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa 12/08/00: Secretary Albright, Remarks at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa 12/08/00: Secretary Albright, Remarks to Women's Roundtable, Cape Town, South Africa 12/04/00: Brooks Yeager, United States Delegation to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Negotiations, Opening Statement, Johannesburg, South Africa 12/04/00: Harold Hongju Koh, Fourth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies, Cotonou, Benin (Democracy and Globalization) November 2000 11/21/00: Susan E. Rice, "Africa at the Crossroads: The Challenge for the Future" Nairobi, Kenya 11/13/00: Ambassador Susan G. Esserman, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, WTO Libreville 2000, Meeting of African Trade Ministers, Libreville, Gabon 11/11/00: James Schroeder, Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, USDA Remarks, Strategic Alliance for Biotechnology Research in African Development (SABRAD), Workshop on Biotechnology Accra, Ghana October 2000 10/11/00: Susan E. Rice, Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on African Affairs, Washington, DC (U.S. Policy Towards Sierra Leone) Daily Press Briefings Previous: Jan 00 || Feb 00 || Mar 00 || Apr 00 || May 00 || Jun 00 || Jul 00 || Aug 00 || Sep 00 || 1999 || 1994-1998 Economic Policy Africa Growth and Opportunity Act Fact Sheet: Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (10/02/00) Public Law No: 106-200 (Trade and investment policy for Sub-Sahara Africa) Text of Letter From President on Nigeria and GSP (08/27/00) The United States and Nigeria: Expanding Trade and Investment (08/27/00) Fact Sheet: Strengthening Our Economic Partnership With Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean Basin (05/18/00) Reports and Fact Sheets 2000 Communiqué of the U.S.-Angola Bilateral Consultative Commission (10/13/00) Fact Sheet: Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (10/02/00) U.S.-Tanzania Bilateral Relations (08/28/00) Nigeria: Bridging the Digital Divide and Improving Access to Education (08/27/00) Text of Letter From President on Nigeria and GSP (08/27/00) The United States and Nigeria: Expanding Trade and Investment (08/27/00) The United States and Nigeria: Joining Forces to Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases (08/27/00) Nigeria (08/26/00) Nigeria: The Challenging Transition to Democracy (08/26/00) The United States and Nigeria: Energy, Labor, Law Enforcement, Environment, Democracy and Biotechnology (08/26/00) United States-Nigeria Open Skies Agreement and Other Transportation Initiatives (08/26/00) U.S.-Nigerian Cooperation on Peacekeeping and Military Reform (08/26/00) The Brahimi Report on UN Peacekeeping Reform (08/23/00) U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Since the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings (08/07/00) Overseas Security Improvements (08/07/00) Domestic Security Improvements (08/07/00) Horn of Africa: U.S. Response to Drought (08/01/00) U.S. Initiatives on Conflict Diamonds (07/28/00) Illicit Diamonds and Conflicts: G-8 Economic Summit 2000 (07/21/00) U.S. Initiatives on "Conflict Diamonds" (05/23/00) Fact Sheet: Strengthening Our Economic Partnership With Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean Basin (05/18/00) UN Resolution 1295, Sanctions Against UNITA (04/18/00) Peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (03/30/00) Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone (03/30/00) Background to the Burundi Peace Process (02/22/00) Solidifying our Partnership With Africa (02/17/00) National Summit on Africa (02/00) International Religious Freedom (2000) Previous: 1999-1996 Official Visits 2000 December 6-12, 2000: Secretary Albright's Trip to South Africa, Mauritius, and Botswana August 26-28, 2000: President Clinton's Visit to Nigeria and Tanzania 1999 October 17-23, 1999: Secretary Albright's Trip to Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali, Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania 1998 August 17-19, 1998: Secretary Albright's Trip to Kenya and Tanzania March 23-April 2, 1998: President Clinton's Trip to Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Botswana, Senegal [end of document] Country Information || Official Texts || Press Statements || Related Links || African Affairs || Department of State || Secretary of State