The country's relatively cool response to last year's knife-edge national elections and United States President Barack Obama's visit in June reinforced its status (AC Vol 50 No 17)...
The USA's 'global gag rule' (now lifted by President Barack Obama see Box) banned funding reproductive health providers that even discuss abortion...
Its work was hampered by the global gag rule until as one of his first acts in office President Barack Obama abolished it...
Kibaki has written to President Barack Obama complaining about a breach of diplomatic protocol...
Washington's diplomats went to extraordinary lengths to prevent any chance encounter between President Barack Obama and Gadaffi whose association with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 still provokes furious protests in the USA...
American engagement Much will depend on the expected new policies of United States President Barack Obama's government...
Referring to United States President Barack Obama's calls in Accra Ghana for more democracy and accountability MEND's ubiquitous spokesman Jomo Gbomo justified the Lagos attack in an email to journalists: 'Because our fight is happening in a country with a fraudulent electoral process and corrupt leadership we feel vindicated...
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- MAURITANIA
AQIM's implication in the June murder of an American teacher in Nouakchott has forced a rethink in Washington where Barack Obama's administration had taken a lead in calling for Mauritania's isolation while coup-maker Aziz was at the helm...
As in so many areas the expectations are that President Barack Obama's Africa policy will be a break with the past...
The spur is Barack Obama's election and the expectation that he will launch important policy initiatives in Africa – and that for the first time the US has a president with a clear commitment to the continent...
A retired Air Force General who accompanied then-Senator Barack Obama on a six-nation African tour in 2006 Gration is the type of cerebral military officer that Obama has drawn into his policy orbit...