The United States continues to encourage countries in Africa and elsewhere to respect executive term limits.

Today the LRA consists of only a few hundred people, most likely. But it continues to inflict a level of pain and suffering far greater than its actual size.

there remains a broad, bipartisan consensus in the Senate in support of the administration's action to deploy these 100 U.S. Special Forces troops

Thank you very much, Ambassador Carson, both for your testimony and for your leadership regionally on these important issues.

For the average Cameroonian, they look at Senegal, and they realize in the last 30 years, Senegal has had four heads of state.

Entrenched African leaders contribute to corruption, to economic stagnation, to a lack of accountability, and an inability of government to effectively represent and respond to the needs of people.

I have laid out some of our concerns in a letter this month to President Biya, as Cameroon's National Assembly considers the revised electoral code.

George Washington gave us a huge gift by, at the moment that he could have made himself President for life or king, handing back the reins of power.

Both of you have pointed out the very constructive role that ECOWAS has played.

I think the last thing we need on our hands is another incident of violence and instability on the African Continent.

We talked about a variety of different tools available to the AU, to the African community, to civil society, and to the United States.