Africa Program Updates

Webinar Panel: Zimbabwe Elections Impact on US Foreign Policy

Walking in Stephen King's footsteps

 

Symposium on Zimbabwe Elections and US Africa Policy

 

Jim Jordan finally humiliated TO HIS FACE at hearing

Politics, lies, and freedom of speech

 

Who Holds Russia Accountable for its Disinformation Campaign in Africa?

Electrical Power Distribution and its Impact on African Development

The US-Vietnam Relationship

 

On September 13, I was a guest at a luncheon at the US Institute for Peace (USIP) kicking off the US-Vietnam technical talks relating to the mission of accounting of US missing from the Vietnam War. This was the first time these talks were held in the United States, and they came on the heels of the president's visit to Vietnam and the establishment of a US-VN strategic partnership. I was reminded of my last meeting with Mr. Kelly McKeague, director of the Defense Personnel Accounting Agency (DPAA) when he was still Lt. Gen. McKeague, director of DPAA's predecessor, the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) which I led from 2006 to 2009 to do one of the General and the Ambassador podcasts. Listen to that episode below:

Global Energy Crisis - Report from Interuniversity Consortium on Counter-Terrorism Studies

Click on the link below to read the report on dealing with the Global Energy Crisis. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j7WZ_PMNsA2nCpHdToczWgaiyUEISZxf/view?usp=sharing

The ’Coup’ in Niger and its Impact on Long-term Policy Towards the Sahel

'Dark Brandon'

 

A Dictator, An Election, and US Interests

 

Cambodia just "elected" another term for the ruling party, allowing the 38-year dictator Hun Sen to maintain dynastic rule for many years to come. The West does not like this. But what really are our economic, security, and even humanitarian interests in the region? How might we reframe our thinking to best promote them? Amb. Charlie Ray is back to discuss. And here's our previous episode with him, Golf with a Dictator, which gives a real-life story of a time he was right. Click HERE to listen.

BREAKING: Top Trump ally moves to throw him UNDER THE BUS in court

American justice system

 

DS Monthly Report - August 2023