Just a couple of loose ends from Hillary Clinton’s just-completed Africa trip:
The Washington Post’s Mary Beth Sheridan sheds a spotlight on how women’s issues were central to the Secretary of State’s mission: “Clinton’s just-concluded 11-day trip to Africa has sent the clearest signal yet that she intends to make women’s rights one of her signature issues and a higher priority than ever before in American diplomacy.”
You should not miss this Mail & Guardian assessment of Clinton’s trip from Eusebius McKaiser of Johannesburg’s Centre for the Study of Democracy and Sasha Polakow-Suransky of Foreign Affairs magazine.