I'm pleased to chair this hearing of the African Affairs Subcommittee.
Thank you very much, Senator Isakson, for that update, for your leadership on this issue, for your personal commitment a...
I think it's important that we now turn to our main focus today, which is U.S. policy options in response to entrenched ...
How do we ensure the successful implementation of democracy and governance initiatives?
Senator Isakson has just returned from a trip to Uganda.
We talked about a variety of different tools available to the AU, to the African community, to civil society, and to the...
I think the last thing we need on our hands is another incident of violence and instability on the African Continent.
Both of you have pointed out the very constructive role that ECOWAS has played.
I also want us to have the opportunity today to take advantage of some insights and some opportunities.
The United States continues to encourage countries in Africa and elsewhere to respect executive term limits.
For the average Cameroonian, they look at Senegal, and they realize in the last 30 years, Senegal has had four heads of ...
there remains a broad, bipartisan consensus in the Senate in support of the administration's action to deploy these 100 ...
George Washington gave us a huge gift by, at the moment that he could have made himself President for life or king, hand...
Thank you very much, Ambassador Carson, both for your testimony and for your leadership regionally on these important is...
Entrenched African leaders contribute to corruption, to economic stagnation, to a lack of accountability, and an inabili...
Today the LRA consists of only a few hundred people, most likely. But it continues to inflict a level of pain and suffer...
People may not believe what we say, they will believe what we do.
The system that is designed to uncover such wrongdoing actually worked as it is intended.