USAID Administrator Travels to East Africa

USAID Administrator Travels to East Africa

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Administrator Mark Green is taking his first trip as USAID Administrator to East Africa amidst several food and humanitarian crises. He will assess humanitarian efforts and programs that address immediate needs and evaluate how we support affected communities in their ability to mitigate future crises.

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September 12, 2017

USAID’s new Administrator Mark Green announced the United States continued commitment towards working with Kenya on food security with the selection of Kenya as one of 12 partner countries in the global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future. Countries were selected based on their need, their partnership with the United States and their commitment to investing effort and resources to tackle food insecurity and stunting.

September 2, 2017

USAID Administrator Mark Green visited the Republic of South Sudan September 1-2, and on Friday he met with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir in Juba. Administrator Green stressed the urgent need for President Kiir and his Government to both acknowledge and address the worsening humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.

September 1, 2017

There will never be enough money to do everything that we would like to do, but the challenges -- the scale of the challenges we’re facing: natural disaster, as we see here, man-made disasters, as we see in too many places, is creating unprecedented need and challenge.  Our obligation, as in all of us, is to work seamlessly, very-closely, share information all the time.  We also have an obligation, I think, to try to deal with immediate needs and also to look at some unpredictable future needs.  So, the youth that we see in refugee camps, who will grow up in a refugee camp experience, how do we help to provide some kind of education and job training so that god-willing someday there’s a normalcy there.  But all of these challenges are really profound ones.

August 31, 2017

 Thanks to all of you for making it through the rain to come here, I appreciate it.  I've had a couple of great days so far here in Ethiopia, and I'd like to begin by thanking the people of Ethiopia for their incredible hospitality.  Beautiful country -- it's not my first time here, but every time I come back I'm just -- I feel a great sense of welcome.  So, it -- my thanks go out.  This is my first trip abroad as the Administrator of USAID, and I'm glad that that first trip was to Africa.  It's a continent with which, as some of you know, I have a close personal relationship.  It

August 31, 2017

USAID Administrator Mark Green met with African Union Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat today in Addis Ababa to discuss partnering on economic growth, security, and sustainable development in Africa.

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