US-Africa Summit: Much Fanfare, but Measuring Its Success Will Take TimePresident Obama's unprecedented US-Africa Leaders Summit wrappedup Wednesday night with pledges...LaFranchi, Howard
Some Western media have characterized this visit as fulfilling an earlier promise - Biden's commitment to visit Africa in 2023 made at the US-Africa Leaders Summit in 2022. However, this promise has not been genuinely realized. Although figures such as Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury...
The first US-Africa summit was held in Washington D.C. from August 4 to 6. With nearly 50 African heads of state invited to the gathering, and the ambitious plans for economy and trade as well as security cooperation, the summit has not only added an African edge to Barack Obama’s di...
Eleven heads of state and government and more than 1 000 business leaders are meeting in Mozambique this week for the US-Africa Business Summit ahead of the launch of a new, ambitious $60 billion United States investment agency that some analysts are calling a “once-in-a-generational opportun...
In the upcoming BRICS 2023 summit scheduled from August 22 to 24 in South Africa, discussion of financial cooperation including the use of more local currencies for trade settlements, exploration of a parallel payment system to counter the dollar's hegemony and a common currency is highly ...
Analysis At Vilnius summit, Ukraine hopes for more than vague assurances of eventual NATO membership Marek Grzegorczyk Ukraine will in Vilnius once again be looking for a clear pathway towards NATO membership. It will certainly want more than vague assurances of eventual membership... ...
as opposed to common interests, effectively challenging its broader support for "freedom, justice, and democracy." Harris' endorsement of America's divisive Summit for Democracy ignored Washington's own role in aggravating Africa's food insecurity, hunger, and adaptation challenges through undemocratic ...
These commitments must now be backed up with concrete plans and actions, starting now, to achieve these goals, and the summit delivered a surge in progress on this front. The number of countries coming forward with strengthened national climate plans (NDCs) grew significantly today, with commitmen...
An impassioned case was made at the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Botswana for funding Total’s East Africa pipeline despite the environmental row.
“We are engaging with the region in ways consistent with our laws so that we can continue to make sure that the region is safe,” Judd Devermont, senior director for African Affairs at the National Security Council, told theFinancial Times Africa Summit. ...