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PROGRESS TOWARDS PARTNERSHIP
Dr. Sharon Stultz-Karim assesses the place of Africa on the US foreign policy agenda. Will President Bush make good on his G8 commitment or has Africa been sidelined by strategic necessities?
| The US's strategic and development
resources focused on Iraq has prompted concern in sub-Saharan Africa
about its place in American foreign policy in the post-Iraq War period.
But will the momentum of American assistance to Africa so evident
in 2002 continue into the future? Africa lives in hope that the concerned
focus on the continent's particular problems, that began with Bill
Clinton's African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), and was continued
by the current administration in President George W. Bush's adoption,
at the June 2002 G8 Summit, of the Africa Action Plan, will continue.
An analysis of the President's proposed International Affairs Budget
for the forthcoming |
The foremost priority of the Bush Administration's foreign policy is to fight and win the global war on terrorism. fiscal year - which was presented to the Senate by Secretary of State Colin Powell on 30th April 2003 and the White House's Africa Policy - gives valuable insight into the issue. The first and foremost priority of the Bush Administration's foreign policy is to fight and win the global war on terrorism. To this end, the International Affairs Budget for the next fiscal year |
provides rewards for key allies and friendly nations - particularly those who actively assisted in the US/UK-led coalition in the Iraq War - by the provision of US$ 4.7 billion in economic, military, and democratic assistance. This includes packages worth US$ 657 million for Afghanistan; US$ 460 million for Jordan; US$ 395 million for Pakistan; US$ 255 million for Turkey; US$ 136 million for Indonesia; and US$ 87 million for the Philippines. Other priorities of the FY2004 budget are the launching of the Millennium Challenge Account, strengthening the US commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS (FY2004 funding total is US$ 2 billion) |
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