Africa Will Shape the Future

Secretary Blinken discusses increasing focus on Africa to help strengthen global health security and democracy, ending the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate crisis. “For all these reasons and more, Africa will shape the future – not just the future of the African people but of the world.”

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The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President's chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President's foreign policies through the State Department, which includes the Foreign Service, Civil Service and U.S. Agency for International Development.

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