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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)...
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Vol 63 No 18 |
- MOROCCO
- AFRICA
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...
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On her swing through the Horn in the week ending 30 July Samantha Power Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) pledged $476m but Britain and the EU are giving much less as they shift resources to help Ukraine and Eastern Europe...
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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)...
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The delegations met with American officials including USAID Administrator Samantha Power and David Satterfield the US's outgoing Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa...
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Last month Samantha Power Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development accused the Federal government of blocking aid to Tigray but also called on the Tigray Amhara and Eritrean forces to withdraw from newly occupied areas...
This laid the ground for a difficult visit by Samantha Power Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Addis Ababa and Khartoum between 31 July and 5 August...
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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...
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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...
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Also in the frame for the top Africa job at the State Department are: veteran military intelligence officer and specialist on international crime syndicates Charles Snyder (AC Vol 45 No 23); Kate Almquist Knopf Director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in the Department of Defense with strong academic credentials but with a brand of Republicanism including friendships with Democrats such as the outgoing US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice which might be too liberal for the current zeitgeist (AC Blog AFRICA/UNITED STATES: Tussling for influence in Trumplandia); and Jeffrey Krilla former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy Human Rights and Labor...
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