UNITED STATES / AFRICA: PEOPLE IN POWER

As Washington sees it, Africa will be crisscrossed by oil pipelines and bulging with strategic reserves. But the continent will also harbor dangers that can range from terrorism to epidemics. To gain sway in a competitive, high-risk environment the Bush administration has called upon people to deal with Africa: hardened diplomats, experts in security and energy. In this special issue, "The Indian Ocean Newsletter"'s editorial team has examined the credentials of officials with real clout on African issues. A unique Who's Who.

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DIPLOMACY
American women have the power in Africa

The United States African policy is, for the most part, in the hands of women. President George Bush is advised by Cindy Courville who monitors African affairs on behalf of the National Security Council (NSC). (...) [342 words] [$5.4]

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Bobby J. Pittman Jr

Bobby J. Pittman Jr has been the new Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs of the State Department since February 2006. (...) [87 words] [$5.4]

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Carol Thompson

Carol Thompson is the latest arrival at the Bureau of African Affairs. A Californian in her forties, she is a specialist in HIV/AIDS and comes from the White House where she headed the White House Office of National AIDS Policy since 2004. (...) [98 words] [$5.4]

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
AGOA and MCA reward those who toe the line

The United States is dangling two carrots in front of African leaders for them to respect good governance and democracy: (...) [285 words] [$5.4]

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Charles Snyder

Charles Snyder, the United States Special Representative for Sudan is one of the most eminent Africa specialists in the State Department. (...) [176 words] [$5.4]

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The majors’ "Mr Africa"

ExxonMobil and Chevron Texaco are the two American oil companies which are the most active on the African continent, where they operate in some tens of countries. (...) [409 words] [$5.4]

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Stephen Hayes

Stephen Hayes was appointed chief executive director of the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) directly replacing David Miller in September 1999. (...) [152 words] [$5.4]

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David Goldwyn

David Goldwyn heads a firm centred on the African oil sector, Goldwyn International Strategies. Successively Chief of Staff of the Office of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs of the US State Department, international affairs advisor to Bill Richardson at the Department of Energy and then at the American mission to the UN, David Goldwyn has sat on numerous commissions on African oil set up by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. (...) [100 words] [$5.4]

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Herman Cohen

Herman Cohen, joint founder of Cohen & Woods, is one of the best known Americans in French speaking Africa. A former Africa advisor in the National Security Council under Ronald Reagan, and former Assistant Secretary for African Affairs for George Bush senior, he has an invaluable network of contacts. (...) [55 words] [FREE]

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Robert Cabelly

Robert Cabelly, a career diplomat, has worked for three Assistant Secretaries for African Affairs - Chester Crocker (during the presidency of Ronald Reagan), Herman Cohen (during the presidency of Georges Bush senior) and George Moose (during the presidency of Bill Clinton) - before leaving the State Department in 1994. (...) [141 words] [$5.4]

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Frank B. Atkinson

Frank B. Atkinson and L. F. Payne Jr head McGuireWoods Consulting. This firm won a contract in 2006 to promote relations between Ethiopia and the United States at a time when the repression of the opposition in Ethiopia is beginning to provoke negative reaction as far as certain members of the US Congress. (...) [57 words] [FREE]

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CSIS

The reputation of the Africa programme of the Center for Strategic And International Studies (CSIS) has been made in particular by its director, Stephen Morrison, the former Africa director of the State department Policy Planning Staff during the administration of Bill Clinton. (...) [68 words] [FREE]

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Universities

Georgetown has an Africa department in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, headed by Gwendolyn Mikell. Florida University’s Center for African Studies is the most highly reputed on the East coast, as is the African Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania, headed by Lydie Moudileno. (...) [51 words] [FREE]

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DIPLOMACY
High powered ambassadors

The majority of ambassadors on post in Africa have passed through the Bureau of African Affairs. Scott DeLisi was director of Southern Africa before being appointed to Eritrea in August 2004. (...) [372 words] [$5.4]

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Donald Yamamoto

Donald Yamamoto, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State For African Affairs is in particular a specialist in East Africa. A former chargé d’affaires in Eritrea and later Ambassador to Djibouti, today Yamamoto is involved in settling the conflicts in Ethiopia and the Great Lakes region which he visits regularly. (...) [75 words] [FREE]

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POLITICS & POWER
Djibouti, advanced anti-Al-Qaeda base

Ever since the Somalia trauma in 1993, the United States have balked at sending their "boys" into Africa. The fight against terrorism has pushed them into taking a foothold, initially in Djibouti where the headquarters of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) are located, comprising an 1800-strong force including 700 soldiers based in the Lemonier camp. (...) [464 words] [$5.4]

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William Stoakley

Since the emblematic William Thom retired in 2002, the Africa office of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has been run by his number two, William Stoakley. (...) [112 words] [$5.4]

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Ned Cabot

Ned Cabot has been directing the Africa department of the USTDA since October 2004, after spending five yeas at the head of the Europe department of the same organisation. (...) [74 words] [FREE]

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John Richter

John Richter replaced Annmarie Emmet at the head of the Ex-Im Bank Africa Business Development Group during the summer of 2000, and was confirmed in this post by the Republican administration in January 2001. (...) [124 words] [$5.4]

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Paul V. Applegarth

The chairman of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) since May 2004 has been Paul Applegarth. This development specialist has spent nine years at the World Bank, before becoming the Chief Operating Officer of the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, a public and private initiative for the development of infrastructure in Africa. (...) [92 words] [$5.4]

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Jack Kemp

Jack Kemp, an American football ex-champion and former Representative for New York, created Kemp Partners in 2001. His company is at the service of Laurent Gbagbo and has joined the long list of Ivory Coast lobbyists in the USA. (...) [59 words] [FREE]

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Rosa Whitaker

Rosa Whitaker, a career diplo-mat, has made her reputation and that of her lobby firm, the Whitaker Group founded in 2003, on her knowledge of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the American act on trade with Africa. (...) [134 words] [$5.4]

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Joseph J. Szlavik

Joseph J. Szlavik, a former advisor to President Georges Bush at the beginning of the 1990s and a lobbyist for the President of Congo Pascal Lissouba and the President of Gabon Omar Bongo, now heads the public relations firm Scribe Strategies & Advisors. (...) [103 words] [$5.4]

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ACSS

The African Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), one of the think tanks of the National Defense University (NDU) based in Arlington (Virginia) is an authority on Africa. (...) [100 words] [$5.4]

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SAIS

The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University does not have an Africa programme proper, but William Zartman, the director of the Conflict Management Program, is a very good specialist on the African continent. (...) [69 words] [FREE]

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