Webinar

Transition 2021 Series: How to Approach Sub-Saharan Africa

Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Benoit Tessier/Reuters
Speakers

Senior Advisor, United States Institute of Peace; Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, U.S. Department of State (20092013); CFR Member

Senior Fellow for Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Former United States Ambassador to Botswana (2011—2014)

Director, Africa Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Presider

Vice Chancellor and President, The University of the South; Adjunct Senior Fellow for African Peace and Security Issues, Council on Foreign Relations

from Transition 2021 Series, Transition 2021, and Africa Program

Panelists discuss U.S. policy priorities in Sub-Saharan Africa and what changes to expect from the Biden administration.

The Transition 2021 series examines the major foreign policy issues confronting the Biden administration.
 

Top Stories on CFR

Economics

There is too much talk about the dollar’s role as a reserve currency and too little talk about expectations of exceptional returns. Reserve accumulation hasn’t driven the financing of the U.S. current account deficit in recent years.

Europe

On the eighty-first anniversary of D-Day, CFR President Michael Froman and senior fellows discuss the Trump administration’s diminished appetite for engagement in European security affairs—even as the Russia-Ukraine war drags on.

Ukraine

The Sanctioning Russia Act would impose history’s highest tariffs and tank the global economy. Congress needs a better approach, one that strengthens existing sanctions and adds new measures the current bill ignores.