In a meeting with Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (left) at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton pledges continued U.S. support for Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government and calls on Eritrea to halt interference in Somalia.
“I am just absolutely convinced Africa’s best days can be ahead,” Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton tells students at a town hall meeting at the University of Nairobi. Clinton appeared in the same university hall in which Barack Obama (above) spoke in 2006 as a U.S. senator.
Find out why Africa needs its scientists and how the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is helping to nurture the next generation of African scientists. Above, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton tours a laboratory at the Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute near Nairobi on August 5.
The United States and Mauritius will negotiate a treaty to strengthen investor protections in Mauritius and encourage the continuation of market-oriented economic reforms.
President Obama will chair a high-level meeting of the U.N. Security Council on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament at the U.N. General Assembly in September.
Since the end of apartheid, non-whites in South Africa have taken leading roles in the economy.
In his first trip to Africa as President, Barack Obama visits Ghana.
Democracy Video Challenge Winners Discuss Their Films, July 24-Aug. 28, 8 a.m. EDT (12:00 GMT) Chansa Tembo of Zambia will chat Aug. 21.
Caregivers at South Africa's Soweto Hospice provide HIV/AIDS care, treatment and prevention.
Land O' Lakes Inc. has been helping poor countries develop their farm economies since 1981.
The MCC reduces poverty through partnerships led by local business people.
America.gov bloggers examine the day-to-day actions that create a democratic way of life.
USAID partners with organizations around the world in order to help fix systemic problems.
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