HIV, the Legacy of America’s Response, and Lessons for Future Outbreaks
November 2023
by Alisha Smith-Arthur
Tag: Africa
I Didn’t Join the French Foreign Legion, but It Helped Rescue Me in Chad
November 2023
by James R. Bullington
Coming to Grips with Poverty in Africa
May 2023
by Mark G. Wentling Reducing poverty has been at the heart of U.S. foreign assistance in dozens of low-income countries for more than a half-century. Despite U.S. foreign policy objectives, much work, and hundreds of billions of assistance dollars expended, … Read more
Trauma in Togo
February 2020
by Mark Wentling In April 1991, while I was serving in Lomé, Togo as the USAID Representative for Togo and Benin, protests in Lomé against the dictatorial regime of President Eyadéma reached the boiling point. One night, President Eyadéma’s barbaric … Read more