The document reprints a newspaper article from The New York Amsterdam News. The article says speaking to state legislators gathered in Chicago at an Africa Fund consultation on U.S. policy toward Africa on Feb. 28, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr., the special envoy to the President for the Promotion of Democracy in Africa, linked expanded U.S. trade and investment in Africa with respect for human rights and democracy. The document mentions Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, General Sani Abacha, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, Congress, the Council on Foreign Relations, Salih Booker, Amnesty International, Adotei Akwei, President Clinton, Shell Oil Company, the Movement for the Survival of...
The document reprints a newspaper article from The New York Amsterdam News. The article says speaking to state legislators gathered in Chicago at an Africa Fund consultation on U.S. policy toward Africa on Feb. 28, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr., the special envoy to the President for the Promotion of Democracy in Africa, linked expanded U.S. trade and investment in Africa with respect for human rights and democracy. The document mentions Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, General Sani Abacha, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, Congress, the Council on Foreign Relations, Salih Booker, Amnesty International, Adotei Akwei, President Clinton, Shell Oil Company, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Barine Teekate-Yorbem Chevron, Mobil, African civil society, dictatorship, the U.S.-Africa Economic Forum, oil, diamonds, precious metals, gold, platinum, profits, peaceful protests, multinational corporation, and the Nigerian military.
