Susan Elizabeth Rice

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...

The policy shift towards more US engagement on Sudan was designed by Susan Rice, National Security Council Director and long-time critic of the Khartoum regime, and it appalled US rights activists and Sudanese oppositionists...

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...

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...

The US National Security Advisor, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice, issued a routine statement about the coup on Friday and left it at that...

In February 2014, Guelleh signed a military pact with China, which earned him a visit from US National Security Advisor Susan Rice in March...

Irish-born Power has taken a keen interest in Liberia as an unfinished international human rights case since replacing Susan Rice at the US mission in 2012...

Obama's National Security Advisor, the former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice, last year insisted on easing the United Nation' arms embargo on Hassan Sheikh's government, effectively allowing it to import weapons without the need for UN Security Council authorisation...

• The United States Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Reuben Brigety: there should be credible elections by April 2013 or at least before a full-scale foreign-backed intervention...

The Executive Director of New York-based Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, has claimed US Ambassador Susan Rice was at odds with her State Department colleagues over the UN report...