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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...

Political sources in Washington downplayed such a possibility citing strong criticism of Khartoum's record from outgoing US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power...

On 2-5 September the US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power led a delegation of ambassadors from the 15 UNSC member states to South Sudan...

'On the brink' The United States Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said 'we all need to support' regional proposals to bolster peacekeepers who 'offer a basis to re-establish a secure environment' when the country is 'on the brink of an abyss'...

The visiting United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power publicly raised the issue but also praised Chad's support in tackling Boko Haram...

Also important is Enough's network of friends in government such as National Security Advisor Susan Rice; the Ambassador to the United Nations and former genocide activist Samantha Power; and the Administrator of the US Agency for International Development Gayle Smith who worked in Sudan in the 1980s...

He followed up with another mission on 21 January accompanied by the United States Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power and other UN envoys to urge the President to negotiate with the opposition...

' Another memo from the United States' Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said: 'We are leaving Burundi...

Earlier the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski urged Nkurunziza to allow peaceful criticism while the US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said that Nkurunziza had violated the Arusha Agreement...

The cerebral United States Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power spoke of a 'surprisingly positive' situation in Ghana Guinea Liberia and Sierra Leone after visiting the region at the end of October (AC Vol 50 No 14 Washington's Africa team takes shape)...