Africa: Obama’s Last Chance

... August of 2014 discussed trade, investment and security issues. Its main outcome was Obama’s promise of a USD 37-billion injection of government and private investments into African countries. Although the declared aims of Obama’s visit to Kenya and Ethiopia were to promote trade and strengthen security, the real ones were primarily political. The U.S. president’s tour of East Africa on July 24–28, 2015, can be seen as a sequel to the efforts to implement the American strategy toward ...