africa: Bush Administration 'on a Collision Course with Africa'

Ahead of President Bush’s first official trip to Africa next week, four leading advocacy organisations held a press briefing Wednesday to examine the current state of U.S. Africa policy. Africa Action, TransAfrica Forum, 50 Years is Enough and Foreign Policy in Focus hosted the briefing, in which a panel of African-American and African experts offered a critical analysis of Bush Administration policies on key issues in U.S. Africa relations. Salih Booker, Executive Director of Africa Action said: "American unilateralism is at odds with African efforts to gain international cooperation to address the most urgent global priorities ­ such as AIDS, poverty and civil conflict ­ which have the most devastating consequences in Africa."