Barack Hussein Obama

Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken was Biden's National Security Advisor when he was Vice-President under Barack Obama and both men supported the US invasion of Iraq...

Rabat's initial response to Antony Blinken being named Secretary of State was relief as his rival for the job Susan Rice had ruffled Moroccan feathers when she was Barack Obama's UN ambassador – another example of how in Morocco the Sahara trumps everything...

However pending a change of policy that a shooting war could force the Democrat administration is thought likely to continue support for Morocco's autonomy proposal for the region with Rabat maintaining sovereignty – a position also held by Biden's old boss Barack Obama...

In Nigeria the chief of staff's role is to ensure the head of state's agenda wins the day – Rahm Emmanuel to Barack Obama or perhaps Thomas Cromwell to Henry VIII...

The law which was extended for 10 years by President Barack Obama looked to be on life-support at this week's annual AGOA Forum in Abidjan...

Swan a veteran US State Department career officer who served as ambassador in Djibouti Somalia and Congo-Kinshasa during Barack Obama's presidency has been pushed forward by Donald Yamamoto the current US ambassador in Mogadishu and a mentor of Swan's diplomats and UN insiders told Africa Confidential...

He was brought back into government for a few months in August 2016 during Barack Obama's administration to head the US Embassy in Nigeria...

Bush and the Barack Obama administrations through her relationships with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Susan Rice Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was able to benefit from great largesse as well as extraordinary goodwill...

Just days before US President Barack Obama left office in January he signed an Executive Order suspending the trade sanctions on Sudan setting a deadline of 12 July for the incoming government to decide on whether to make the decision permanent...

Though he has not yet unpicked any of Barack Obama's Africa-related policies key government posts connected to Africa remain unfilled six months into his term...