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The Lights Are Turning on in Africa

With support from the American people, governments in West Africa are making rapid progress in powering homes and businesses and opening the door to sustainable economic growth: http://go.usa.gov/xkJms.

Conventional Weapons Destruction Challenges in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Over the years, I have visited more than 75 countries where the United States is working through our Conventional Weapons Destruction program to help safeguard communities from the impacts of landmines, unexploded ordnance, and excess small arms; Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia and Yemen to name a few.  I recently made my first visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where we’re making progress toward helping the country to declare itself Landmine Impact-Free by 2017.

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Battling Ebola: How Tours into Guinea’s Hot Zone are Helping in the Fight

In Guinea, misinformation about Ebola abounds. Here, the disease has killed more than 2,300 people, and the streets are rife with rumors – of how Ebola is a hoax or a conspiracy to harvest organs. Some Guineans who have seen the ravages of Ebola firsthand believe that the very people coming to help them are actually spreading the disease.

After deploying two times to this West African country as a member of USAID’s Ebola Disaster Response Assistance Team, it became clear to me that community resistance is one of the biggest obstacles to stopping Ebola.

But one NGO is taking a novel approach to dispel these rumors. In the town of Forécariah – a two hour’s drive southeast of Guinea’s capital Conakry – the French Red Cross is running an Ebola treatment center in this hard-hit prefecture with the support of USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. While a team of health care workers is fighting for the lives of the sick, another group is fighting fears by inviting the community inside.

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#StartTheSpark of New Possibilities for Entrepreneurship in Africa

Entrepreneurship can transform the world. Entrepreneurs solve problems, create jobs and boost economies. That’s why – through the United States’ Spark Initiative – the U.S. has committed to generating $1 billion in new investments in entrepreneurs, particularly women and girls.

“Over the next three years, we’re aiming to spark more than one billion dollars in new investments in the next generation of entrepreneurs around the world—to help them open a new business, expand into new markets and ignite the next era of innovation and growth,” said President Obama in a video message at a Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Tunisia.

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