-- Africa

--07/01/08  The 7th AGOA Forum ; Todd J. Moss, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- View Video
--05/20/08  Africa Partnership Station: U.S. Naval Operations in West & Central Africa; Captain John B. Nowell, Jr., Commodore of Africa Partnership Station 2008; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/05/07  Issues Facing AFRICOM and the Unique Nature of Her Diplomatic Role as Deputy to the Commander in a U.S. Military Geographic Command; Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities, U.S. Africa Command; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/09/07  Secretary Paulson's Trip to Africa; Ahmed Saeed, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of the Treasury; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/27/07  U.S. Africa Policy with Focus on Sudan and the Horn of Africa; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--06/22/07  U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Update; Ryan Henry, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/18/07  Scene Setter for the Sixth AGOA Forum; Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC --Official Transcript
--02/09/07  U.S. To Establish New U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM); Theresa Whelan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/05/07  Current Developments in Sudan; Cameron Hume, Charge de'Affaires, U.S. Embassy, Khartoum, Sudan; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/12/06  Conflict Diamonds; Sue Saarnio, Special Advisor for Conflict Diamonds, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/27/06  Upcoming Elections in the Democratic Republic of The Congo; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/21/06  UNGA: Review on Africa; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York City -- Official Transcript
--08/24/06  Stopping Genocide in Darfur: Ongoing U.S. Efforts and Working with the UN Security Council; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/16/06  Upcoming Trip to Kenshasa to Open a Hospital and Participation in the NBA's Basketball Without Borders Africa Program; Dikembe Mutombo, NBA Houston Rockets; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--07/25/06  Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/12/06  Upcoming Annual Meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction in London & the African Development Bank Meetings; Clay Lowery, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--05/11/06  Announcement of AGOA V Forum 2006; Ambassador Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/26/06  USAID Update on Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa; Michael Hess, USAID Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/08/06  Current Allied Command Operations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia; General James Jones, NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) and US European Command (EUCOM) Commander; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/19/05  U.S. and UN Food Relief to Southern Africa; Michael Hess, U.S. Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/05/05  Africa Update: Democracy and Human Rights; Ambassador Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/23/05  Finalization of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Threshold Country Program with Malawi; Goodall Gondwe, Minister of Finance, Republic of Malawi; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC
--09/16/05  Advancing Freedom, Peace and Prosperity in Africa; Jendayi E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtabel Discussion; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--07/13/05  New Millennium Challenge Compact with Cape Verde; Josi Maria Neves, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cape Verde; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--06/03/05  AGOA: Empowering Civil Society Orgnaizations to Build Economic Prosperity: The 2005 U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum in Dakar, Senal, July 18-20, 2005; Constance Berry Newman, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/19/05  The Signing of the First Millennium Challenge Compact; Paul Applegarth, Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/08/05  U.S. Participation in the Sudan Donors' Conference, Oslo, Norway, April 11-12, 2005; Two Senior Government Officials; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/22/05  Developments in West Africa; Mike McGovern, West Africa Project Director, Crisis Group; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York
--03/16/05  Building U.S.- Muslim Understanding and Dialog: Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds; Ambassador William Rugh (retired); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/27/05  Update on Crisis Hot Spots Around the World ; Nancy Soderberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs at the International Crisis Group ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; New York, New York  -- Official Transcript
--01/12/05  A Step Toward Peace: The Sudan Comprehensive Peace Accord; Charles R. Snyder, Senior Representative on Sudan ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/02/04  Discussion on Sudan; John Danforth, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Foreign Press Center DVC Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--11/16/04  Current Situation in Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--11/16/04  Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; New York, New York
--10/05/04  Four G8 Compact Countries Announce their Plans to Combat Corruption; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC  -- Official Transcript
--07/29/04  The Humanitarian Situation in Sudan; Roger Winter, Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. AID; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/26/04  Keeping Up Pressure on Sudan; Kim Holmes, Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/01/04  Humanitarian Crisis in Western Sudan; Andrew Natsios, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/27/04  The G-8 Summit; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/07/04  Making Progress on AIDS in Africa; Ambassador Randall Tobias, Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/08/04  New Initiatives with African Countries; General Charles Wald, Deputy Commander for the European Command (EUCOM), USAF; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/04/04  The International Reconstruction Conference on Liberia; Andrew S. Natsios, Adminstrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/15/04  Update on Sub-Saharan Africa; Charles R. Snyder, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/02/03  President Bush's Trip to Africa; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Unofficial Transcript
--02/04/03  International Reconstruction Conference on Liberia; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator U.S. Agency for International Development; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/07/03  2003 African Growth And Opportunity Act ( AGOA) Forum: Port Louis, Mauritius -- January 13-17, 2003; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary Of State For Economic, Business And Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--11/18/02  Africa: The Road to Conflict Resolution; Walter H. Kansteiner , Assistant Secretary for State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--11/13/02  Drought in the Horn of Africa: What the U.S. Is Doing ; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--11/01/02  Conflict Over Diamonds: The Ministerial Meeting to Launch the Kimberly Process International Scheme for Trade in Rough Diamonds, November 5, Interlaken, Switzerland; Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel, Special Negotiator for "Conflict Diamonds"; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC Official Transcript
--09/16/02  New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD); Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York Official Transcript
--08/20/02  The Food Crisis in Southern Africa: The Challenge to Sustainability.; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--08/06/02  Genocide and War in Central Africa: Pursuing the Criminals; Pierre Prosper, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/30/02  Current African Issues; Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--06/21/02  Africa and the Upcoming G-8 meetings; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/31/02  Report on Sudan; Andrew Natsios, Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/04/02  Current Events in Zimbabwe; Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/12/01  Humanitarian Situation in Sudan -- A Scene-Setter for the Trip to Northern and Southern Sudan of USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios; Roger Winter, Director USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Official Transcript)
--07/03/01  Bush Administration Africa Policy: The First Six Months and Looking Ahead; Walter Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)