African Issues
- Sudan Strategy Aimed at Saving Lives, Ensuring Durable Peace
The United States strategy for Sudan has three major goals: saving lives and ensuring a durable peace, implementing a long-standing peace agreement, and preventing Sudan from becoming a terrorist safe haven, a senior U.S. diplomat tells a House of Representatives subcommittee.
- Maritime Pirates Threaten Everyone, Especially Africa’s Hungry
Oceangoing ships are responsible for moving at least 80 percent of all commerce worldwide, so maritime pirates are a threat to everyone, especially those who are starving in Somalia and East Africa and rely on ships to deliver emergency shipments of food aid.
- Secretary Clinton on Kenyan Consideration of a New Constitution
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton makes remarks on the new draft constitution by Kenya’s Committee of Experts.
- Clinton Cites AIDS as Defining Health Challenge of Today
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calls HIV/AIDS “the defining health challenge of our time.” She also mentions a new five-year global AIDS strategy to be unveiled later in the week and that Washington will host the 2012 International AIDS conference.
- Q&A with Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS
Coordinator
U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby answers questions from the Facebook community. The PEPFAR program, which he oversees, is a worldwide effort greater in scope and funding than the Marshall Plan that helped post-World War II Europe get back on its feet.