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NDI Gives Preliminary Critique of Nigerian Vote Voice of America The co-leaders of the observer mission were Johnnie Carson, a member of the NDI board of directors, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and senior advisor at the U.S. Institute of Peace; Mahamadou Danda, former prime minister ...
Ambassador Johnnie Carson, who served as assistant secretary of State for Africa during President Obama's first term and as U.S. ambassador to Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe, currently is a senior adviser at the United States Institute of Peace and a ...
Ambassador Johnnie Carson, who served as assistant secretary of State for Africa during President Obama's first term and as U.S. ambassador to Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe, currently is a senior adviser at the United States Institute of Peace ...
Ugandans faced a stark choice at the ballot box Thursday between strongman Yoweri Museveni and singer-turned-opposition icon Bobi Wine, who was just 3 years old when Museveni took power 35 years ago. Why it matters: Wine has tapped into the discontent and aspirations of young people, particularly...
Although Ugandans voted in presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday, the refusal by President Yoweri Museveni’s government to allow most election observers and the media to monitor the vote has had many democracy advocates deeply concerned. There have also been several incidents of violence against...
By 2050, one in four people on earth will be from Africa, a continent of vast natural resources and precious metal reserves but also great foreign and national security challenges for Washington.
Longtime U.S. diplomat Johnnie Carson at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) recently told Threat Status that China’s infrastructure projects in Africa have “largely been negotiated in opaque fashion.”