Candidates in the running so far all have US citizenship and include: Rajiv Shah head of the Rockefeller Foundation and former head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID); Samantha Power former US ambassador to the United Nations current head of USAID; Chief executive of the One campaign and former aide to President Barack Obama Gayle Smith; Mafalda Duarte chief executive officer of the $11 billion Climate Investment Funds; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala former finance minister of Nigeria and current director-general of the World Trade Organization (Dispatches 9/2/21 Okonjo-Iweala to take over as WTO chief within days)...

At a meeting in mid-August Samantha Power Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Mostafa Terrab Chairman and CEO of OCP Group discussed how the company would continue to channel discounted fertiliser to smallholder farmers across Africa...

Underlining the centrality of the grain crisis to Africa Samantha Power Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) pledged on 22 July to give Kenya about $225 million in emergency aid to relieve the drought in its northern provinces (Dispatches 15/7/22 Drought and fall-out from Moscow's war may trigger catastrophic famine)...

Macron's message is likely to be echoed by Samantha Power the head of the United States Agency for International Development who is visiting Khartoum and Addis Ababa between 31 July and 5 August...

On 15 April the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously backed Biden's nomination of Samantha Power as Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) opening the path to a vote by the full Senate...