The U.S. Agency for International Development will be experiencing in 1994 the most far-reaching changes since its creation in 1961. These changes will affect...

Over the past 18 months, the political, economic, and diplomatic trends noted in my previous CSIS Africa Notes briefing paper about Zimbabwe ("Zimbabwe at...

A Guide to Key Personnel in U.S.-African Relations

We live in a world where the walls are coming down, opening up nations and societies to new forces and new opportunities. At one level, this is a liberating process. It makes possible previously unimagined levels of growth and freedom.

While the Gulf is of critical importance in terms of oil supplies, and the Red Sea can be bypassed by sailing around the Cape, the Red Sea is still of potential strategic importance.

During the cold war, the one emphasis in news coverage and even the scholarly literature about the independent island nations of the southwestern Indian...

Since 1988, the World Bank and other donors have invested millions of dollars in the form of technical assistance and lines of credit to bring about...

Despite its small size and limited resources, Senegal has been influential in its region and beyond. Contributing to this high profile is the fact that Dakar, the capital, was the administrative center of French West Africa in the colonial era; as a result, Senegal inherited...

U.S. policy toward Africa is undergoing substantial change. The need for new directions was already evident in the mid-1980s.

The end of the cold war...

This CSIS Africa Notes Interview with Ambassador Herman J. Cohen took place In early April 1993, shortly after he concluded his four-year assignment as...

The durability of the Soviet Union is only one of the prevailing assumptions of the 1980s that have not stood the test of time. Two hypotheses about AIDS...