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...Congress agreed to impose sanctions on Burmese exports, in response to Suu Kyi's May 30 detention and the crackdown on her National League for Democracy. Island Overthrow SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE African leaders led the condemnation of a bloodless military coup while President Fradique deMenezes visited neighboring Nigeria. Coup leader Major Fernando Pereira said he merely wanted to draw international attention to the island nation's continuing poverty, despite recently discovered oil reserves. Pereira agreed to talks with outside mediators. Constitutional Quandary FIJI The Supreme Court ordered Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase to include members of the mainly ethnic-Indian...
...understand this at all. I'm not sure Africa understands this. The African union doesn't understand this. Because these calls, these harsh calls, were not coming from the African continent. So leaving a bloody civil war, leaving a void is not the thing to do. President Obasanjo (of Nigeria) did not take this action (of offering Taylor asylum) alone. This was a decision taken across the continent, and I have received invitations from other countries to come there. But I'll keep those names quiet...
...Nigeria is the most powerful state in a heavily Muslim region, and although the Islam practiced in the Francophone West African countries such as Senegal has typically been far more moderate and tolerant than the model exported by the Saudis, even in these countries anti-American anger reached new peaks with the Iraq war. President Bush is almost certain to face angry demonstrations on a number of stops during his Africa stop, and Al-Qaeda will be hoping to use that same anger to gain a foothold in West Africa...
...Washington, however, the region's importance is not simply that al-Qaeda may be trying to expand there; it's that West Africa is slated to become an important supplier of U.S. energy needs. America already imports about as much oil from Africa - principally Nigeria and Angola - as it does from Saudi Arabia, but the African share of the U.S. market is slated to almost double over the next two decades as U.S. companies move to exploit the high-quality offshore deposits in the Guinea basin. Last year, alone, they invested some $10 billion in the region, and that level...
...Because Africa's wars have a habit of spilling over borders and destabilizing entire regions, peacekeeping will be a hot topic in Administration's discussions over Liberia with Nigeria and in particular South Africa, which boasts the continent's most powerful military. The President will also be looking to greatly expand intelligence cooperation against al-Qaeda with his hosts in Senegal, Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa...