Reed Kramer

Frank W. Garcia Jr., a veteran Republican Congressional aide with limited Africa experience, has been nominated by President Trump to lead the Africa Bureau at the State Department.

The Africa Bureau at the State Department has a new top official, Nick Checker. Unlike his recent predecessors who were career diplomats, he has been at State for only four months, having served for the previous decade as a military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He spent part of 2025 working in the White House as deputy executive secretary on the National Security Council (NSC) staff.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary in Sudan released a statement Thursday announcing acceptance of a proposal for a humanitarian ceasefire on terms drafted by the U.S.-led initiative called the Quad that includes Egypt, Saudi Arabi and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

"No one can say they didn't know."

The Trump administration is adopting a new commercial diplomacy strategy for sub-Saharan Africa "based on what we've seen that actually works," the acting head of the Africa Bureau at the U.S. State Department, Ambassador Troy Fitrell, said in a briefing on Tuesday.

"Africa can expect substantial changes from the United States over the next four years," Rama Yade, director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, wrote in a pre-Inauguration analysis. While Donald Trump in his first term pursued an "America first" foreign policy, as he has committed to do again, the "new centrality" that Africa enjoys on the world stage will necessitate adaptations to the U.S. approach, Rama predicted.

AllAfrica Executive Chair Amadou Mahtar Ba addressing the 2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit in Nairobi Misperceptions and miscommunication have driven centuries of media coverage of Africa. Historical records recount the first meeting between an…

Nearly 26 million people in war-torn Sudan are not getting enough to eat, according to the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA. Washington, DC — As starvation and desperation in Sudan continues to escalate after a year of conflict, U.S. Secretary of…

18 March 2024 Washington, DC — The military regime in Niger on Saturday revoked "with immediate effect" the military cooperation agreement with the United States dating from 2012. The decision followed several days of tense discussions involving a…

Carlos 'Kent' Campbell, a respected public health physician and global health champion who died on February 20, 2024, is being celebrated by colleagues and coworkers for his pivotal role in fight to eliminate malaria in Africa. "Kent was a true force…

Washington, DC — Mauritius, the Indian Ocean island-nation located off the southeast coast of continental Africa - known for powder-white beaches and luxury tourist attractions - has one of Africa's strongest economies. The World Bank ranks the…

When Elizabeth Migwalla chose electrical engineering as her major at Nairobi University in the mid-1970s, “women didn't do that,” she recalled in a recent interview. After more than three decades in the telecommunications field, she is currently the…

Washington, DC — Trip to Ethiopia and Niger is latest top-level administration Africa foray, with VP Harris expected to be next Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will visit Addis Ababa on March 14 and 15 to hold talks with the Ethiopian government…

Washington, DC — When President Joe Biden, addressing the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in December, thanked major American corporations like Microsoft, General Electric and Visa for announcing some $15 billion in new deals, he included mention of "a…

New York — The African Finance Corporation (AFC), has a mission even more critical today than when it was created in 2007 - mobilizing private sector-led infrastructure investment needed to drive the continent's economic growth. Younger and perhaps…

Washington, DC — U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to three African countries from August 7 to 12 with visits to South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda. These stops will follow visits to Cambodia and the…

The U.S. Senate moved a bit closer to confirmation of President Biden’s nominees for six key ambassadorial posts in Africa with a hearing on Tuesday. [Watch] The three political nominees who testified during the first panel convened by the Foreign…

African economies, already battling to recover from a Covid-induced recession, face major obstacles as they manage "spillover" effects from the war in Ukraine, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told a media roundtable with global reporters…

Leaders from 17 African nations will this week join a 'Summit for Democracy' organized by an American administration clearly aware that the United States is itself under scrutiny over its own commitment to the democratic process. The two-day summit,…

The fast-growing San Francisco-based payment processing company Stripe is buying Nigeria's Paystack, a leading African fintech firm, in an acquisition that signals growing interest in Africa's tech startups. This is "the biggest startup acquisition…