France has expressed confidence in the transition but keeps a low profile while the United States has sent its West Africa representative Peter Pham to Bamako with a message of support...

Peter Pham met with Tshisekedi on February 12 and expressed disappointment with the DRC government's anti-corruption efforts to date...

Peter Pham a scholar at the think-tank the Atlantic Council who had been vetted for appointment to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs before being ruled out because of an association with Morocco's stance on the Western Sahara issue was thought to be angling for Sartor's job...

'Kenya is certainly on the shortlist' (for a US trade deal) says Peter Pham head of the Africa programme at Washington's Atlantic Council think-tank and a well-connected Republican party insider...

Significantly Peter Pham who is Trump's choice for Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs co-chaired the Atlantic Council Task Force with Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates who was Chargé d'Affaires to Sudan in 2011-12 and former Deputy Commander for Civil-Military Activities of the US Africa Command...

Peter Pham who is likely to be the next Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (see Box Roll call of the Trumpeteers) is outside these discussions despite his deep interest in security...

After which the name of Peter Pham Director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council would invariably come up as the most likely choice as the next Assistant Secretary for African Affairs...

Also important will be Peter Pham a Republican supporter and head of Africa policy at the Atlantic Centre: he wants a much better coordinated policy on Islamism in Sudan and Somalia (AC Vol 51 No 22 Jarch Capital has friends in the South)...

Johnson (appointed in January 2008; counter-terrorism expert and businessman; ex-Pentagon ex-United States Department of State ex-Central Intelligence Agency) Ambassador Joseph Wilson (Africanist; ex-Pentagon ex-US National Security Council of Nigerien uranium fame AC Vol 46 No 22) and Peter Pham (a former African Advisor to the Republican Party Foreign Policy specialist ex-US government)...