Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa Program, was quoted by the Washington Post, "No Bases Planned for Africa, Bush Says."
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Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa Program, was quoted by the Washington Post, "No Bases Planned for Africa, Bush Says."
ACCRA, Ghana, Feb. 20 -- President Bush on Wednesday tried to calm deep fears about expanding U.S. strategic ambitions in Africa, dismissing speculation that he wants to build military bases on the continent as just "baloney."
Talk of an Africa headquarters, however, "ignited a very negative and strong reaction across the continent," J. Stephen Morrison, co-director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said at a briefing before Bush's departure. "They've walked back from that," he said of the administration. "They're now in a quiet phase where they're trying to build up their credibility and their consultations."
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