Swan a veteran US State Department career officer who served as ambassador in Djibouti Somalia and Congo-Kinshasa during Barack Obama's presidency has been pushed forward by Donald Yamamoto the current US ambassador in Mogadishu and a mentor of Swan's diplomats and UN insiders told Africa Confidential...
He was brought back into government for a few months in August 2016 during Barack Obama's administration to head the US Embassy in Nigeria...
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...
Just days before US President Barack Obama left office in January he signed an Executive Order suspending the trade sanctions on Sudan setting a deadline of 12 July for the incoming government to decide on whether to make the decision permanent...
Though he has not yet unpicked any of Barack Obama's Africa-related policies key government posts connected to Africa remain unfilled six months into his term...
Vol 58 No 12 |
- KENYA
- ELECTIONS
United States former President Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns used sophisticated data crunching as have the Labour and Conservative parties during the last two British elections...
Vol 58 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The United States' anti-Kabila policy has lost its momentum since former President Barack Obama's Great Lakes envoy Tom Perriello left the State Department though it will probably follow the EU's lead...
It was illegal for US firms to lobby for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's Islamist regime but since outgoing US President Barack Obama eased sanctions in January Khartoum has extended lobbying beyond its debt issues...
The decision follows the change of designation of the Islamist militia Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen which is affiliated to Al Qaida as an 'enemy combatant' organisation last December by the then President Barack Obama's government (AC Vol 57 No 25 Electoral process stumbles but stays on track)...
One of Barack Obama's last acts as US President was to approve a mid-January air strike by B-2 stealth bombers which flew from Missouri against two Islamist training camps 45 kilometres south-west of Sirte...