access to electricity Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/access-to-electricity/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 access to electricity Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/access-to-electricity/ 32 32 Rex Tillerson will try to mend fences with Africa https://jjcornish.com/2018/03/rex-tillerson-will-try-mend-fences-africa/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/03/rex-tillerson-will-try-mend-fences-africa/ Rex Tillerson’s embarked on his first diplomatic safari as US Secretary. He’s looking to mend fences with Africa which has been treated with indifference and insult by the Trump administrstion. Rex Tillerson notes before leaving for Africa that in his previous life as chief executive of Exxon Mobil he visited the continent frequently. On his […]

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]]> Rex Tillerson’s embarked on his first diplomatic safari as US Secretary.

He’s looking to mend fences with Africa which has been treated with indifference and insult by the Trump administrstion.

Rex Tillerson notes before leaving for Africa that in his previous life as chief executive of Exxon Mobil he visited the continent frequently.

On his first visit as US secretary of State, he carrying promises of $533 million dollar in new aid to improve access to electricity and provide critical  drugs for fighting  HIV AIDS.

Briefing reporters he omitted mentioning that the Trump administration has proposed dramatically slashing assistance to nations the President earlier this year dismissed as shithole countries.

He’s visiting Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Chad and Nigeria.

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