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AfricaFocus Bulletin
 Country-focused BulletinsJanuary 19, 2022   USA/Africa: Bronx Fire Devastates Gambian Community“This is the heart of the problem. If housing vulnerable people is an asset
class – not a social good, or a human right – then generating returns for
investors will always be in a zero-sum relationship with providing safe
housing for those people. Landlords will always be in the middle; and when
they’re taking sides, as they must in housing for profit, investors will
always win.” - Annia Ciezadlo
 
 December 23, 2021   USA/Africa: Pandora Papers Keep Giving
2021 was a banner year for attention to national and international tax reforms to reduce tax evasion and avoidance, with legislation in the United States spearheaded by the FACT Coalition and a global reform deal proposed by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). But the Pandora Papers also demonstrated the pervasive scale of illicit financial flows that siphon off wealth into an “offshore” world of secrecy.
 
 July 27,  2021   USA/Global: Let Cuba Live!
The Biden administration has now been in office for six months,
along with a narrow Democratic majority in Congress. So it seems an
appropriate time for a report card. I offered my evaluation in another AfricaFocus Bulletin sent out today, entitled “Building Back Better? Or Not?” But as I was finalizing that Bulletin, I realized that the rising U.S. attacks on Cuba are a key indicator of how things are going.
 
 
 July 27,  2021   USA/Africa: Building Back Better? Or Not?
June 14, 2021   USA/Global: Bad Days for Big Oil (except in the GOP)
 March  8, 2021   USA/Global: Taxing the Tech Giants
 November 30, 2020   USA/Africa: Build Back Better on Africa Policy
 November 30, 2020   USA/Global: On Climate, How Much Will Be New?
 September 28,  2020   USA/Global: Millions Displaced by US Post-9/11 Wars
 September 23, 2020   USA/Global: Overhauling U.S. Foreign Policy
 August 24, 2020   USA/Global: Divest from Violent Policing and Endless Wars, Part Two
 August 24, 2020   USA/Global: Divest from Violent Policing and Endless Wars, Part One
 June 8, 2020   USA/Global: Racial Pandemic and Viral Pandemic
 May 12, 2020   USA/Global: Contesting Health and Workers' Rights
 March 9, 2020   USA/Africa: Transnational Lives in Kentucky
 February 24, 2020   USA/Global: National and Global Inequalities Are Intertwined
 January 27, 2020   USA/Global: Green New Deal Can and Must Be Global
 January 27, 2020   USA/Global: Beyond Eurocentrism and U.S. Exceptionalism
 November 25, 2019   USA/Africa: At Home in Maine
 February 26, 2019   USA/Africa: From Wakanda to Reparations, Part 2
 February 26, 2019   USA/Africa: From Wakanda to Reparations, Part 1
 January 30, 2019   USA/Africa: Paradigms of Foreign Intervention
 January 30, 2019   USA/Africa: China, Bolton, and Jimmy Carter
 July 18, 2018   Africa/Global: 10 Ways to Misunderstand the Trump Election, and Why They Still Matter
 May   7, 2018   USA/Africa: Achieving 100% Renewable Energy
 May   7, 2018   USA/Africa: Renewable Energy Advances on Many Fronts
 January 15, 2018   South Africa/USA: Inequality is Extreme and Still Rising
 November 13, 2017   USA/Sahel: Questions Asked, Unasked, Half-Answered
 August 23, 2017   USA/Africa: No Policy? Bad Policy? Or Both?
 May 30, 2017   USA/Africa: "Pro-Death" Health Agendas Advance
 October 11, 2016   USA/Africa: The State of Black Immigrants
 September 21, 2016   USA/Africa: From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopTheBleeding Africa
 Apr   5, 2016   USA/Global: When Elephants Fight
 February 29, 2016   USA/Africa: Rising Opposition to Tax Evasion
 July 29, 2015   USA/Africa: Obama Visit Roundup
 February 24, 2015   USA/Somalia: Rising Threat to Remittances
 December 1, 2014   USA/Nigeria: Uneasy Alliance
 October 20, 2014   USA/Africa: Decent Work Agenda
 October 14, 2014   USA/Africa: New Statistics on Immigrant Communities
 August 11, 2014   Africa: Investment for Whom?
 July 29, 2014   USA/Africa: A Dubious Summit
 March 13, 2014   USA/Africa: Military Perspectives
 January 27, 2014   USA/Africa: Exporting Homophobia
 May   8, 2013   USA/Africa: Immigration Reform Needs Fixing
 Nov 15, 2012   USA/Africa: A Rare Policy Success
 Jun 20, 2012   USA/Africa: Reject "Terrorist" Designation for Boko Haram
 Jun   1, 2012   USA/Africa: Rising Pressures for Militarization
 Aug 18, 2011   USA/Africa: Wage Penalties for Black Immigrants
 Aug 18, 2011   USA/Africa: New Data on African Immigrants
 Jun 30, 2011   USA/Gabon: Blind Eye for Corruption
 Dec 14, 2010   USA/Africa: Wikileaks Highlights, 2
 Dec 14, 2010   USA/Africa: Wikileaks Highlights, 1
 Aug   2, 2010   USA/Africa: New Evidence on Lumumba Death
 Aug   2, 2010   USA/Congo (Kinshasa): Conflict Minerals Law
 Jul   9, 2010   USA/Africa: Detroit to Dakar
 Jun   5, 2010   USA/Nigeria: By Way of Comparison
 Mar   30 2010   USA/Somalia: Engage or Disengage?
 Feb   8, 2010   USA/Africa: Two to Tango
 Dec   6, 2009   USA/Africa: AIDS - Yes, We Can?
 Dec   6, 2009   USA/Africa: AIDS - No We Can't?
 Nov   6, 2009   USA/Africa: Supporting Global Health
 Sep 15, 2009   USA/Somalia: Slippery Slope
 Aug   4, 2009   USA/Kenya: What Kind of Partnership?
 Jul 21, 2009   USA/Africa: Trade Profile
 Jul 21, 2009   USA/Africa: After the Speech
 Jul 10, 2009   USA/Africa: Obama in Ghana, What Kind of Change?
 Jun 24, 2009   USA/Uganda: Recovery from Conflict?
 May 10, 2009   USA/Africa: Underfunding Global Health
 Apr 14, 2009   USA/Nigeria: Halliburton Fallout
 Mar 18, 2009   USA/Africa: Making Peace or Fueling War
 Mar   1, 2009   USA/Africa: Waiting for Change
 Feb 25, 2009   USA/Africa: Global Health Policy
 Dec 18, 2008   USA/Africa: Global Health Commitment
 Dec 14, 2008   USA/Somalia: Obama's First Africa Test
 Nov 18, 2008   USA/Africa: Reflections on the Transition
 Oct 31, 2008   USA/Nigeria: Chevron on Trial
 Sep 13, 2008   USA/Africa: New Policy Prospects?
 Aug   2, 2008   USA: AIDS & Black America
 Mar 14, 2008   USA/Africa: Africom vs. Peacekeeping
 Mar   3, 2008   USA/Africa: Health Policy Updates
 Feb 21, 2008   USA/Africa: Images and Issues
 Feb   5, 2008   USA/Africa: Health Budget Falls Short
 Aug   1, 2007   USA/Africa: Questioning AFRICOM, 2
 Aug   1, 2007   USA/Africa: Questioning AFRICOM, 1
 May   7, 2007   USA/Africa: More than Just a Mvule Tree
 Jan 16, 2007   USA/Africa: Constructing a Terror Front
 Nov 28, 2005   USA/Africa: Global Gag Rule Expands
 Sep   6, 2005   USA/Africa: Call for Food Aid Reform
 Mar   23 2005   USA/Africa: Cotton Dumping
 Feb   1, 2005   USA/Africa: Textile Meltdown?
 Oct 26, 2004   USA/Africa: Fair Elections?
 Jul 28, 2004   USA/Africa: Oil and Transparency
 Jun 10, 2004   USA/Africa: Peacekeeping Repackaged
 Apr   5, 2004   USA/Africa: Policy Prospects
 Mar 31, 2004   Rwanda/USA: "The System Worked"
 Jan   6, 2004   USA/Africa: Health Unilateralism
 
 
 Recent Bulletins on Continent-Wide IssuesJanuary 23, 2023   Update from Editor on Future PlansNovember 15, 2022   Africa/Global: "Daughter of Africa" Steps Up to Lead on Global Crises
 October 25, 2022   Africa/Global: Remembering Valeriano Ferrão and Charles Sherrod
 October 10, 2022   AfricaFocus 3.0: Not ´A Nation of Immigrants´
 July 20, 2022   Africa/Global: Oligarchs of All Nations
 June 9, 2022   Africa/Global: Ukraine, Africa, and Our Planet
 
 
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 Africa Policy E-Journal (1995-2003)2003-09-20 USA/Africa: Broken Promises & Betrayals2003-07-19 USA/Africa: When Mr. President Came Shopping
 2003-07-09 USA/Africa: Show Us the Money!
 2003-07-07 USA/Africa: Still Waffling on Generics
 2003-07-03 USA/Africa: More than a Trip?
 2003-06-29 USA/Africa: Trade Wars, 1
 2003-06-29 USA/Africa: Trade Wars, 2
 2003-03-07 USA/Africa: Anti-War Statements, 1
 2003-03-07 USA/Africa: Military Programs
 2003-03-07 USA/Africa: Anti-War Statements, 2
 2003-01-29 USA/Africa: AIDS Initiative, Famine Update
 2003-01-23 USA/Africa: Malign Neglect
 2003-01-14 USA/Africa: Trade Meeting, 1
 2003-01-14 USA/Africa: Trade Meeting, 2
 2002-11-20 USA/Africa: Mobilizing for the Right to Health
 2002-10-04 USA/Africa: Questions for Candidates
 2002-08-01 USA/Africa: New Data on Murder of Lumumba
 2002-07-25 USA/Africa: Anthrax, History and Security
 2002-05-13 USA/Africa: Sign-On Letter to Treasury Secretary
 2002-01-13 USA/Africa: Organizing on Africa in the USA
 2001-10-29 USA/Africa: Economic Policy, 2
 2001-10-29 USA/Africa: Economic Policy, 1
 2001-10-15 USA: Global Health Fund Alert
 2001-07-09 USA/Africa: Urgent Senate Action
 2001-06-08 USA: AID Chief Displays Racism, Ignorance
 2001-05-10 USA: Action Alert / Failing the Test on Global AIDS
 2000-12-13 USA: Color of Election 2000
 2000-12-13 USA: Bush and Africa, the Coming Apathy
 2000-09-26 USA/Africa: UN Funding
 2000-08-22 USA: Nigeria Policy, Letters
 2000-08-21 USA: Nigeria Policy, Statement
 2000-05-05 USA: Global Infectious Disease Threat
 2000-03-23 USA: Summit Documents, 5
 2000-03-23 USA: Summit Documents, 4
 2000-02-28 USA: Summit Documents, 3
 2000-02-27 USA: Summit Documents, 2
 2000-02-27 USA: Summit Documents, 1
 1999-12-06 USA: Trade and Globalization Opinion
 1999-10-16 USA: Africa Trade Bills
 1999-07-31 USA: Africa Economy Updates
 1999-06-01 USA: Africa Policy On-Line Poll
 1999-03-22 USA: Africa Conference, Clinton Speech
 1999-03-22 USA: Africa Conference, Amoako Speech
 1999-03-07 USA: Africa Trade Documents, 2
 1999-03-07 USA: Africa Trade Documents, 1
 1999-02-05 USA: Africa Seeds of Hope Act
 1998-10-22 USA: Questions for Congress
 1998-09-19 USA: Africa Funding
 1998-06-11 USA: Changes in Landmine Policy
 1998-04-18 USA: Comments after Clinton Trip
 1998-03-17 USA: Africa Trade Bill, 2
 1998-03-17 USA: Africa Trade Bill, 1
 1997-10-27 USA: Letter on Africa Trade
 1997-07-09 USA: UN Arrears
 1997-06-02 USA: CFR Task Force Statement
 1997-04-26 USA: Africa Fund Consultation
 1996-10-16 USA: Questions for Candidates, 2
 1996-10-16 USA: Questions for Candidates, 1
 1996-09-10 USA: African Immigrant on Trial
 
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