Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa Program, and Jennifer Cooke, co-director of the CSIS Africa Project, were quoted by the Associated Press, "Bush to Visit Six Countries in Africa."
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Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa Program, and Jennifer Cooke, co-director of the CSIS Africa Project, were quoted by the Associated Press, "Bush to Visit Six Countries in Africa."
WASHINGTON - President Bush will find violent conflicts threatening nearly every corner of Africa when he begins a six-day visit on Saturday. But the continent's turmoil and trouble are not expected to be Topic A for the president.
"There's a preference in these trips ... to put the emphasis on things that make you happy and to avoid talking about things that make you sad," said Stephen Morrison, the co-director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Africa program. "This is not a conflict-resolution trip."
There's fodder there. Bush gets kudos from Africa experts for surprising them with his anti-disease largesse, which is starting to pay some dividends. Said Jennifer Cooke, Morrison's Africa program co-director at CSIS, "This is something of a victory lap."
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