Contents: U.S. State legislators to southern Africa • Preserving Assistance for Africa • Human Rights - Nigeria • Human Rights - South Africa • Educators to South Africa • The Africa Fund's first delegation of U.S. local elected officials is in southern Africa, travelling with Dumisani Kumalo, with grant support from the Carnegie Corporation. The delegation includes Rep. Art M Hamilton (immediate past-President of the National Conference of State Legislatures), Rep. Irma Hunter Brown (Arkansas), and Senator Virgil Smith (Michigan). Jennifer Davis gave testimony before the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations about the importance of Africa and need for foreign aid. Other work on...
Contents: U.S. State legislators to southern Africa • Preserving Assistance for Africa • Human Rights - Nigeria • Human Rights - South Africa • Educators to South Africa • The Africa Fund's first delegation of U.S. local elected officials is in southern Africa, travelling with Dumisani Kumalo, with grant support from the Carnegie Corporation. The delegation includes Rep. Art M Hamilton (immediate past-President of the National Conference of State Legislatures), Rep. Irma Hunter Brown (Arkansas), and Senator Virgil Smith (Michigan). Jennifer Davis gave testimony before the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations about the importance of Africa and need for foreign aid. Other work on this topic included support for a resolution adopted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and a petition drive during Black History Month; the petitions were delivered to White House official, Mort Halperin and MacArthur de Shazer. Mike Fleshman reported on work regarding Nigeria, including briefing Human Rights Watch. Evelyn Rich, the Phelps Stokes Fund, and The Africa fund are sponsoring a trip to South Africa by U.S. teachers with a grant from the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program. The report also mentions the struggle against apartheid, reconstruction and development, the Development Fund for Africa (DFA), Senator McConnell, Rep. Sonny Callahan, ACOA (American Committee on Africa), Wyatt Tee Walker, the Religious Action Network (RAN), the Clinton Administration, the Senate Africa Subcommittee, Nancy Kassebaum, the U.S. labor movement, Amnesty International, TransAfrica, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and Greenpeace.
