dos Santos Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/dos-santos/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 04 Aug 2014 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 dos Santos Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/dos-santos/ 32 32 US raps African leaders over the knuckles https://jjcornish.com/2014/08/us-raps-african-leaders-knuckles/ Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/08/us-raps-african-leaders-knuckles/ The US has opened the largest gathering of African leaders in its capital by rapping them over the knuckles. Secretary of State John Kerry urged the four dozen leaders at the US Africa summit to respect diversity and political differences. He urged them not to alter their constitutions for their personal gain. John Kerry didn’t […]

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]]> The US has opened the largest gathering of African leaders in its capital by rapping them over the knuckles.

Secretary of State John Kerry urged the four dozen leaders at the US Africa summit to respect diversity and political differences.

He urged them not to alter their constitutions for their personal gain.

John Kerry didn’t name any of the leaders who have tampered with their constitutions to stay in power.

But Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, Cameroon’s Paul Biya and Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos were all in the audience.

Outside the State Department a crowd of around 100 protesters, many African expatriates , demanded the United States not cosy up to African autocrats.

 

Vice President Joe Biden met African civil rights leaders and encouraged them to fight corruption.
 

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