For the APC David Axelrod legendary campaign strategist for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 is working on strategy and messaging...
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Vol 55 No 22 |
- WEST AFRICA
This rash idea was quickly abandoned after US President Barack Obama responding to a letter of appeal from Johnson-Sirleaf of 9 September committed himself to massive support for Liberia including the deployment of 4 000 troops to build 18 Ebola treatment centres...
However by the time his successor Field Marshal Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi received United States Secretary of State John Kerry on 13 October top of the agenda was US President Barack Obama's effort to build a coalition against Islamic State in Iraq and Shams/Levant (ISIS/ISIL also known as Da'ish or IS)...
United States President Barack Obama offered compelling rhetoric: 'Our citizens keep marching...
Failure in MogadishuUS President Barack Obama has promised to 'degrade and defeat' extremist groups from the Middle East to Somalia notably through aerial attacks and providing organisational support to local allied forces...
In particular he would like to stay close to US President Barack Obama whose multi-billion Power Africa programme is another legacy for both of them...
Britain France Germany and Italy joined President Barack Obama's government in warning against foreign interference in Libya and the threat to the democratisation process...
In February Mark Boulware was appointed as President Barack Obama's special envoy to Casamance...
For many the most emblematic moment of Washington's maiden Africa summit on 4-6 August came at the end of an intense day of economic and commercial debate on 5 August when President Barack Obama sat in on a 15-minute discussion with Takunda Chingonzo a 21-year-old internet entrepreneur from Zimbabwe...
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The biggest draw proved to be US President Barack Obama pulling in nearly 50 African heads of state or government in what critics had described as a belated invitation to the continent's leaders...