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Sep 20, 2017

Roundtable with H.E. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta

By Africa Center

On Wednesday, September 20, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted a roundtable discussion with His Excellency Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, President of the Republic of Mali. Atlantic Council Board Treasurer Mr. Brian C. McK. Henderson and Atlantic Council Vice President and Africa Center Director Dr. J. Peter Pham welcomed distinguished guests and introduced the president. In […]

Africa
Economy & Business

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Sep 18, 2017

Roundtable with H.E. Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

By Africa Center

On Monday, September 18, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, in partnership with the US Chamber of Commerce, hosted a roundtable discussion with H.E. Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, President of Burkina Faso. Atlantic Council Vice President and Africa Center Director Dr. J. Peter Pham and Mr. Scott Eisner, President of the US-Africa Business Center at the […]

Africa
Economy & Business

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Sep 7, 2017

Double issue brief launch: consumers and competition

By Africa Center

On September 7, 2017, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center launched two new issue briefs that tackle the complexities of investing in Africa. The first, titled Escaping China’s Shadow: Finding America’s Competitive Edge in Africa, was written by senior fellow Aubrey Hruby, and the second, Capturing the African Consumer Market: Truths, Trends, and Strategies for the […]

Africa
Economy & Business

Issue Brief

Sep 7, 2017

Capturing the African consumer market

By Aleksandra W. Gadzala

For America’s consumer goods companies, the latest shifts in African consumer trends hold much promise. Africa’s population is growing at an outstanding rate and spending by consumers and businesses on the continent is forecast to grow significantly over the next decade.

Africa
East Africa

Issue Brief

Sep 7, 2017

Capturing the African consumer market

By Aleksandra W. Gadzala

For America’s consumer goods companies, the latest shifts in African consumer trends hold much promise. Africa’s population is growing at an outstanding rate and spending by consumers and businesses on the continent is forecast to grow significantly over the next decade. However, US investors often oversimplify and misunderstand African markets, which remain highly segmented, fluid, […]

Africa
East Africa

AfricaSource

Sep 6, 2017

Germany’s compact with Africa

By Xaviera Gitau

Over the past three years, as thousands of refugees drowned off Europe’s coasts, Germany’s open-door policy towards asylum seekers propelled the country to a position of global humanitarian leadership, and turned its chancellor, Angela Merkel, into a global icon for human rights advocates. As of 2016, the nation of 82.5 million absorbed 890,000 refugees, and […]

Africa
East Africa

AfricaSource

Aug 24, 2017

What South Sudan’s war means for northern Uganda’s “relative peace”

By Kyra Fox

Ten years after the guns of the three-decade-long Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency went silent, northern Uganda’s local leaders are concerned that the deadly war raging across the South Sudanese border could disturb the fragile region. As Uganda’s poorest region, the north is hardly unused to conflict. Decades of economic and political marginalization dating back […]

Africa
East Africa

In the News

Aug 20, 2017

Southeast Asia grapples with extremism resurgence

By John T. Watts

English
Extremism

AfricaSource

Aug 17, 2017

Doubling down on Africa’s trafficking problem

By Liviya David

Across Africa, trafficking is on the rise. Boko Haram’s kidnapping and sale of some of the 276 Chibok schoolgirls into slavery, Guinea-Bissau regressing into a “narco state,” and rebels loyal to the Mozambican National Resistance using poaching to sustain their fledgling movement are several examples in recent memory. These crimes are not isolated incidents. Rather, […]

Africa
English

AfricaSource

Jul 19, 2017

Anthrax to Zika: The lurking threat of outbreaks and bioterrorism in Africa

By Liviya David

The global HIV/AIDS epidemic and the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak varied in length, number of lives lost, and geographic areas affected. However, both posed national security risks to the United States, and both therefore prompted large-scale US government responses: the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and Operation United Assistance in Liberia, respectively. […]

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East Africa
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Experts

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David M. Cattler

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Defense Industry English

Fellow

Samuel Denney

Nonresident Fellow

Transatlantic Security Initiative

English Europe & Eurasia

Fellow

Andrei Covatariu

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Global Energy Center

Eastern Europe Energy & Environment

Fellow

Jonathan Moore

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Europe Center

Bosnian Croatian

Fellow

Amir Hayek

Nonresident Senior Fellow, N7 Initiative

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Arabic English

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Katherine Spencer

Program Assistant

Eurasia Center

Central Asia Conflict
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