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CGD in the News
September 17, 2014
"I think the Ebola crisis highlights how some fragile countries that are close US allies are going to continue to need US assistance, but also that Americans’ lives that sometimes seem very far away from Africa; we’re much more intertwined with Africa than we think. It’s not only for bad reasons, a ...
CGD in the News
September 04, 2014
In the first week of August, official delegations from 50 African countries came to Washington to attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. The meeting was typical in its extraordinary pageantry, overzealous security, and relative lack of tangible accomplishments. [...]
Yet there was one outcome with ...
CGD in the News
August 06, 2014
“[Power Africa] was always designed as something that the administration could do without Congress,” said Todd Moss, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. It makes sense in the short term as a way to get it off the ground, Moss said.
“I think it was a long-term mista...
CGD in the News
August 04, 2014
For many Americans, Africa is a continent far away, full of images like these: poverty, hunger, political refugees - and a need for foreign aid.
But former U.S. diplomat to Africa, Todd Moss, warns those are the pictures of the past.
"US now has greater national security interest in Africa th...
CGD in the News
July 31, 2014
President Barack Obama will host the first ever U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., from Aug. 4 to 6. The event will showcase Africa’s impressive economic rise and the Obama administration’s policy initiatives as the U.S. plays catch-up with Europe, China and other parts of t...
CGD in the News
July 31, 2014
Africa is no longer the backwater of U.S. foreign policy. President Obama will host the first-ever African heads of state summit with 47 leaders in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 4-6. The top agenda items are security and private investment, areas where both Americans and Africans have growing shared inte...
CGD in the News
July 29, 2014
“We build airplanes and the Chinese do road construction,” said Todd Moss, a former State Department official who is a senior fellow specializing in U.S.-Africa relations at the Center for Global Development in Washington. “It’s not like we’re regularly going head-to-he...
CGD in the News
July 10, 2014
Todd Moss, chief operating officer of the Center for Global Development in Washington, said he thinks the [Africa Summit] is a good idea that could improve key bilateral relationships across the continent even if the event could have had a broader focus to appeal to African leaders.
"If the...