tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12496836025161985772024-03-13T19:41:06.821+01:00Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders, The Africa Post (TAP) for FEEEDSFEEEDS® dialogues & advocates on issues of Food Security, Education, Environment-Energy, Economics, Development-Democracy & Self-help, The FEEEDS Issues. Dr. Robin Sanders, CEO FEEEDS & FE3DS, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Congo, & ECOWAS. Website:http://www.
ambassadorrobinreneesanders.com. FEEEDS ask you to beware of all scam emails/text claiming to be from Amb. Sanders/FEEEDS as funding or monies are never requested. Report scams to FBI at spam@uce.govUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger361125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-53751732348008947332023-10-31T23:31:00.000+01:002023-10-31T23:31:11.211+01:00Blog Bits: October 2023<p><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><u>October 2023</u></b></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-- Amb. Sanders in her advisory role with Robertson Foundation for Government (RFG) which focuses, assists, provides internships, and scholarship to the next generation of students studying international affairs and global issues will participate in key programming and help lead key development event for the 2023 RFG Fellows being held at the Nigerian Embassy under the auspices of Nigeria's first female Ambassador to the U.S., Her Excellency Ambassador (Mrs.) Uzoma Emenike. The focus on education and providing leadership to the next generation is a key pillar of importance for both Ambassador Emenike and Ambassador Sanders</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">, as well as FEEEDS</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">. #Education, #Leadership, #Nigeria, #AmbassadorEmenike, #Amb.Sanders, #NigerianEmbassy</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">,</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> #CEO-FEEEDS</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-- Dr. Sanders' invited to participate in <i>Foreign Policy Magazine'</i>s "Her Power,"event that brought together leading women in foreign policy, business, government, academia and the private sector to discuss issues </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">revolving evolving careers, and leadership in all sectors of the workforce. #FPMagazine, #CEO-FEEEDS, #AmbSanders, #Leadership, #Workforce</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-- Dr. Sanders is featured in the 2023 Bentley-Gallup Business in Society Report, quantifying Americans’ attitudes toward businesses and the impact they have on personal lives and society more generally. In the report, 63% of Americans said businesses have an extremely or somewhat positive impact on people’s lives, up from 55% in 2022. Americans still draw a clear distinction between big and small businesses, with small businesses (85%) seen as twice as likely to have a positive effect on people’s lives than big businesses (42%). Sanders' comments are <span class="gmail_default">on </span><i>page 27</i> of the full <span class="gmail_default">data </span>report<span class="gmail_default"> -</span><span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default">The </span>Bentley-Gallup Business in Society Report<span class="gmail_default">, can be accessed </span>here <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.gallup.com/analytics/512066/bentley-business-in-society.aspx&source=gmail&ust=1698876083997000&usg=AOvVaw3dr_T0xeh8tDWVsSs9Ywnr" href="http://www.gallup.com/analytics/512066/bentley-business-in-society.aspx" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>gallup.com/analytics/512066/<wbr></wbr>bentley-business-in-society.<wbr></wbr>aspx</a><span class="gmail_default"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">#Gallup, #BentleyUniversity, #WorkAttitudes, #Small&LargeBusinesses, </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">#</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">CEO-FEEEDS, #AmbSanders</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-- Dr. Sanders</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">was </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">invited to the 2023 Fall Sessions of the IMF held in Morocco, participating virtually. Key sessions attended by Sanders were on global financial & GDP growth pictures, created a more even playing field for non-Western economies, women entrepreneurs, financing for startups, sustainable development issues, Africa brief, etc. #2023IMFMtgs, #Stateof GlobalEconomicGrowth, #WomenEntrepreneurs.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>A FEEEDS Series Blogspot</i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-27983091175119686532023-10-17T21:29:00.039+01:002023-10-31T23:30:42.215+01:00Blog Bits: Early September - Late August 2023 <p><b style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><u>September 2023</u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">-- Amb. Sanders attended key global & Africa events as part of 2023 UN Week:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">As a UNGlobal Compact member, her focus was on climate change, biodiversity and climate-smart small businesses and innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">As a senior advisor for the Concordia Global Issues Summit, Amb. Sanders attended summit sessions with Presidents of Turkey, Paraguay, Ecquador & Montenegro, and leading international business leaders from the US and across the globe. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">#UNGlobalCompact #Concordia #AmbSanders #CEOFEEEDS #ClimateChange #SMEs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">-- Dr. Sanders attended the following Foreign Policy (FP) Magazine UNGA 78 events focused on several of FEEEDS key areas: FP Energy Forum, FP Tech Forum, and Live Taping of Global Reboot. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">#FP #Energy #Tech #GlobalIssues #CEOFEEEDS #AmbSanders</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">-- As part of the Sub-Saharan Africa Business & Investment Summit UN Program, Ambassador Sanders led 3 sessions at the Nigerian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York focused on energy issues and innovation (new projects around solar energy), climate change, US-Africa trade issues and how to further advance these efforts, Internet access issues, and importance of ensuring more value addition for Africa project, and strengthening inter-Africa trade. #AfricaTrade, #AfricaInternet, #climatechange, #Nigeria, #InvestinAfrica</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><b>August 2023</b></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">-- Sanders attended key West Africa policy brief and discussion on the growing number of coups in the region, with prestigious Africa Policy Group under the auspices of George Washington University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">-- Under FE3DS, LLC, CEO-Sanders, as Chairwoman of USTR's Trade Advisory Council on Africa (aka TACA) participatged in briefing, discussion, and timing of the upcoming US-Africa AGOA Ministerial, which will take place in Johnanessburg, South Africa in November 2023</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-80244915408031788722023-10-17T21:06:00.000+01:002023-10-17T21:06:04.201+01:00Blog-bits : Part One for Second Half of 2023: FEEEDS-Gallup 10th Anniversary Policy Forum - Keynoter USUN Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield<div class="separator"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-indent: -0.25in;"><img data-original-height="494" data-original-width="371" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuVNsbHQ-xdDsPDywY_QMH_d9De8DcaeFJitc5XCPkE72wVcVdfyoVa7UIs5mZvn_Fvn-CLKw8ih-LnRjvv5cuLXxk5wLLRKpr0ZrUCL4w2x19uxIV4uJfRUMGStlalULe1eZt261vyPJtSL50PmtYdbKuQZ9_vmfy_9bKt55t_7WdnfUSf-f1hjmRpw=w172-h229" width="172" /><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">July
2023</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt;">-- 2023 was the tenth year of the FEEEDS-Gallup Policy Forum. An annual event held for policy-focused organizations, agencies, academics, think tanks, diplomats, and individuals and was the brain-child of then Gallup's World Poll Managing Partner (now-CEO) Jon Clifton, and FEEEDS CEO Ambassador Robin Sanders. The 10-media partner has been Allafrica.com. Below follows Africa.com press release on the 10th anniversary event, and key highlights for the 2023 event, whose keynote speaker was United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield. The scene setter for the event was done by Gallup's Chairman of the Board, Jim Clifton, and Ambassador Sanders.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzahe9GqAzdHnyzsCfJHLqQygRlaSKbJWE8Omtn48pRLv-y0y9WBQ4As7QkYBt-8BYiaaoAnBYxLMwCyKDBacO8GXSr7U2dAZh4KrpF44umKCN-Oc0bd5Iv9WL7zh4vriRd-osp3R9pk2KRwf1NdgIIsXOWShAodnUvUp0kZQI9BqXwHuJPrPIINVBNg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="631" data-original-width="473" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzahe9GqAzdHnyzsCfJHLqQygRlaSKbJWE8Omtn48pRLv-y0y9WBQ4As7QkYBt-8BYiaaoAnBYxLMwCyKDBacO8GXSr7U2dAZh4KrpF44umKCN-Oc0bd5Iv9WL7zh4vriRd-osp3R9pk2KRwf1NdgIIsXOWShAodnUvUp0kZQI9BqXwHuJPrPIINVBNg=w120-h170" width="120" /></a></div><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">AllAfrica.Com Press Release:</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><br /><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Gallup and
FEEEDS have held the Gallup-FEEEDS Policy Forum for the last 10 years at
Gallup’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">In special
recognition of the 10th anniversary of this important platform the Policy Forum
is honored to have as its 10th anniversary keynote speaker the Honorable
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States Permanent Representative
to the United Nations. This year’s event takes place on July 13 in Washington,
DC.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Policy
Forum has chosen a pivotal and timely theme for its 10th Anniversary event “The
Role of Multilateralism in Today's World,” which will also be the focus of the
Ambassador’s remarks.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq_mCUMe7GBKYDAxYTumnBzfcn6I-khL2BRAIkDxH_sesJMLDWp_W4iZDhyuiI46Tf5fcgtVcm2cm1EgwTnrINxMbcqrYwXcv91nGpbcb4L6G8YJRJKgV6Cyyn-d7u3MtZQMTgse5HAzQ2bJKyRetLUjWirpxKRVP4HagN1r4ioqdjTB24Z_JwOKhf1Q" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="534" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq_mCUMe7GBKYDAxYTumnBzfcn6I-khL2BRAIkDxH_sesJMLDWp_W4iZDhyuiI46Tf5fcgtVcm2cm1EgwTnrINxMbcqrYwXcv91nGpbcb4L6G8YJRJKgV6Cyyn-d7u3MtZQMTgse5HAzQ2bJKyRetLUjWirpxKRVP4HagN1r4ioqdjTB24Z_JwOKhf1Q=w150-h200" width="150" /></a></div>This year’s
program is special in so many ways as the Forum always pulls in its past and
present partners, along with attracting new ones.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The idea
for the Policy Forum was the brainchild of Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders and
Gallup CEO Jon Clifton 10 years ago as they both believe in the role and
connection of policy and data. In addition, they sought to expose and provide
opportunities for diverse and multicultural audiences to hear policy makers
first hand, coupled with exposure to data on the global and domestic issues of
the day covered by the Gallup World Poll.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">CEO Clifton
was previously Managing Partner of the Gallup World Poll, and Sanders served
prior as U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Republic of Congo & at the National
Security Council.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The event
continues to focus on these goals with its yearly themes, high-level speakers,
and longstanding audiences and partners. This year’s program also will include
a fireside chat between Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield and Gallup Board Chairman
Jim Clifton.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">This year’s
Forum will also be a recognition of many of those past partners – from </span></span><a href="about:blank" target="_self"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">allAfrica.com</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> (all 10 years),
the International Development Institute, U.S. Trade, US-Africa Trade, World
Trade Center-Atlanta, UPAC, African Caribbean Business Center, and GB Group
Global, Strategic Groups USA, to name a few, and always welcomes new faces, and
new partners.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Since its
inception, the event is held in July, and this special 10th session, with
the Honorable Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield, will be as well.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">See article
here for further details:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="about:blank" target="_self"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">https://lnkd.in/dYueRCd</span></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuVNsbHQ-xdDsPDywY_QMH_d9De8DcaeFJitc5XCPkE72wVcVdfyoVa7UIs5mZvn_Fvn-CLKw8ih-LnRjvv5cuLXxk5wLLRKpr0ZrUCL4w2x19uxIV4uJfRUMGStlalULe1eZt261vyPJtSL50PmtYdbKuQZ9_vmfy_9bKt55t_7WdnfUSf-f1hjmRpw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-18487496529769899002023-10-17T20:21:00.001+01:002023-10-17T20:21:25.045+01:00FEEEDS "Blog-Bits" for First Half 2023<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Continuing in 2023 with our new adopted short format blog bullet entries (although think-pieces will still be done on ocassion), below so far is the 2023 list of key activities for Ambassador Sanders either academically (lecturer or moderator) or as part of her work under FEEEDS or FE3DS, LLC</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13pt;">June 2023</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-- As a visiting scholar at Temple University's new Africa Trade and Training Institute, Dr. Sanders lectured on several key US-Africa trade issues, US trade financing, and also in separare sessions on challenges to Internet access and connectivity world-wide, but especially in the Global South (TAP blog point: there needs to be a new phrase/wording for countries considered part of this grouping) with women world-wide, having he least opportunity for access, learning, and connectivity to the world-wide web. Other Sanders' key lecture points were that what gets lost by development agencies when seeking to address these issues is also the need to focus on challenges related to costs for service, and access to power sources for charging devices. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">May 2023</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-- Amb. Sanders was invited to Atlantic Council
Distinguished Annual Leadership Awards, its first all-female honoree slate for
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, WTO, Hon. Avril Haines, Director of
National Intelligence; Adena T. Friedman, Chair and Chief Executive Officer,
Nasdaq Inc, Gen. Laura J. Richardson, Commander, US Southern Command & The
Women & Girls of Iran. Also during the event, the Atlantic Council called
attention to the rising role of women’s leadership in shaping a better world. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">#AtlanticCouncil, #CEOFEEEDS, #WomenLeadership, #WTODG,
#NASDAQ, #NatlIntelDir,#USSouthCommand, #WomenGirlsofIran</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-- As part of New America's 2-day Symposium on
"Mapping the Digital Future," Dr. Sanders was invited to participate
as an ICT scholar as part of the working group focused on areas of challenges
and developing suggestions and plans to address "Global Internet
Connectivity and Access Issues," especially for women/girls, as well as
regional/country differences, country-blocking, privacy issues. As a Gallup Senior
Scientist, Dr. Sanders presented key Gallup findings on global and country
connectivity and access data. (Bio note: Amb. Sanders' doctorate degree is in information systems and technology).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">April 2023 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">-- FEEEDS participated in the 2023 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in sessions on climate change, entrepreneurship, global financial challenges/global growth issue for key business sectors</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">-- Sanders attended Foreign Policy Magazine's Climate Change Summit on key issues and progress areas, and lack there of on the world's greatest challenge areas besides the worrying growing number of world conflicts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">February 2023:</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.3333px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.3333px;">-- Amb. Sanders served as election observer in Nigeria's</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.3333px;">2023 Presidential Election, under the USAID-</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.3333px;">funded joint collaborative NDI-IRI mission. Included </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.3333px;">are some pictures from the elections (face-front </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.3333px;">pics: asked by them to take pic with them or </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.3333px;">permission received by them)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8yvN3wWHy7ErBFC5EkPxL42CP6eyMx2foZsTtIn-8tVEOa_-BDFQNLiDjxszGHwv-4M5cNhYPlLBWkzrZeO1zSOl2iy7kDmNhaZbuw-NXLunaj4ERS0IVv8fpbk8CnGpMfHJjNrijGy0MIxIeqbl4GptR6_XpeaY0HnaasdVmaEeDqRLf6mtBSAdm1Q" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img data-original-height="695" data-original-width="556" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8yvN3wWHy7ErBFC5EkPxL42CP6eyMx2foZsTtIn-8tVEOa_-BDFQNLiDjxszGHwv-4M5cNhYPlLBWkzrZeO1zSOl2iy7kDmNhaZbuw-NXLunaj4ERS0IVv8fpbk8CnGpMfHJjNrijGy0MIxIeqbl4GptR6_XpeaY0HnaasdVmaEeDqRLf6mtBSAdm1Q=w200-h163" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNXKPBZPpjyARvBBhYEbP7DiMk1ZafClVWLe6UzmI6fhkbYGi2mI5lrfXsyzPU4fzhvku2qne_lz_ok0uKDUw1t3B3I2hCZY_2b4vutGue7vphwewrMs6RWXxKCffvlEtZfekQ7QiXC8MsHBWXL6ffOeAdOuHo90Jb6TOPbv2_rwqH3aPjcCKofhU02A" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img data-original-height="661" data-original-width="529" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNXKPBZPpjyARvBBhYEbP7DiMk1ZafClVWLe6UzmI6fhkbYGi2mI5lrfXsyzPU4fzhvku2qne_lz_ok0uKDUw1t3B3I2hCZY_2b4vutGue7vphwewrMs6RWXxKCffvlEtZfekQ7QiXC8MsHBWXL6ffOeAdOuHo90Jb6TOPbv2_rwqH3aPjcCKofhU02A=w200-h151" width="200" /></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCRX9tqLzq-W4rKpPhoglvGRS4GcD72BRQGdNIaQB7gP7pV5uwvsAXFzDoTW5HoraBZUKAtEM2PacYDtXNjmmVloDvB-Kcjr3jHvNBmfjz49a7CNaIsXEzRUmmyf9On_gCK9-VOOAVQM9zK7w1mLskzXVKU4R5uWyqNpV6Gd39-0H5iWPA6awVsg-g1w" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="639" data-original-width="613" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCRX9tqLzq-W4rKpPhoglvGRS4GcD72BRQGdNIaQB7gP7pV5uwvsAXFzDoTW5HoraBZUKAtEM2PacYDtXNjmmVloDvB-Kcjr3jHvNBmfjz49a7CNaIsXEzRUmmyf9On_gCK9-VOOAVQM9zK7w1mLskzXVKU4R5uWyqNpV6Gd39-0H5iWPA6awVsg-g1w=w192-h217" width="192" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_oDojOkKcKpw0na-w8nja0sBVLf2qyviplYbJVDtsyzTCiMrEqYaIbtI7QZtU5Kt7aUFpcgRA4JTzsvngZnHDLle2q5tYbLKz7Qz6dyP2iCsjtEJ-6r64zjIuMGOeWUG-b7QSTyYqfkOz5zKqT4-_5OwCFSwEk17a6ONh1xhMYDpjHEnRX6cz-4iTZQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img data-original-height="630" data-original-width="617" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_oDojOkKcKpw0na-w8nja0sBVLf2qyviplYbJVDtsyzTCiMrEqYaIbtI7QZtU5Kt7aUFpcgRA4JTzsvngZnHDLle2q5tYbLKz7Qz6dyP2iCsjtEJ-6r64zjIuMGOeWUG-b7QSTyYqfkOz5zKqT4-_5OwCFSwEk17a6ONh1xhMYDpjHEnRX6cz-4iTZQ=w214-h181" width="214" /></a><span style="text-align: center;"> <br /> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">January 2023:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-- Amb. Sanders participated in the Atlantic Council’s
Africa Center session hosting Judd Devermont, Biden Special Assistant &
Senior Director for African Affairs at the NSC on the administration’s objectives
and strategy for engagement with Africa in 2023. #NSC, #WhiteHouse,
#USAfricaPolicy, #CEOFEEEDS, #AtlanticCouncil<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-81931483351881862602023-10-04T20:29:00.000+01:002023-10-04T20:29:25.527+01:00Catching up on Backlog Posting:) End of 2022 Activities of Interest<div class="separator">Dear Blog - yes, have been away for awhile, (but not inactive:), so will be playing catchup for awhule....so hanging there. Picking up the "pen," on TAP now from end of 2022 (see LinkedIn for a more), from the long haitus from blogging. 2023 activity list to follow.... </div><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><b><u>December 2022:</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-- Dr. Sanders attended the Atlantic Council's Africa
Center high-level fireside chat on US-African engagement on the AfCFTA and the
future of US-Africa trade </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">–</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> all linked to the Dec. 2022 US-Africa Leaders</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> Summit, featuring Ambassador
Katherine Tai, the 19th United States Trade Representative, and Secretary
General Wamakele Mene of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
#US-AfricaTrade, #AfCFTA, #USTR, #Mene, #AmbTai, #CEOFEEEDS, #AmbRobinSanders,
#AtlanticCouncil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_RZHSDuHCNdp3blC07EUShsLFFIzlqcsbIrIgiZnFHoid3Nr0k8VF8eKaoxWAKIFzaWAxPkT0-lGcw6cMm7taKXEIYE7Qn8ktnpe6hgjitxMczD3Ao0lDXvLIH-Gv06tIaELaBOq8QSc89PYi6ouHUgeWbRm9bMOdktUthYJS1fvs9FpYP7hfvGXmYQ/s1066/AGOA%20Minsterial%202022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="800" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_RZHSDuHCNdp3blC07EUShsLFFIzlqcsbIrIgiZnFHoid3Nr0k8VF8eKaoxWAKIFzaWAxPkT0-lGcw6cMm7taKXEIYE7Qn8ktnpe6hgjitxMczD3Ao0lDXvLIH-Gv06tIaELaBOq8QSc89PYi6ouHUgeWbRm9bMOdktUthYJS1fvs9FpYP7hfvGXmYQ/w240-h197/AGOA%20Minsterial%202022.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>-- Ambassador Sanders, as Chairwoman of the US-Africa Trade Advisory Committee (TACA) the US-Africa AGOA Ministerial in
Washington DC, she represented, as an observer to the talks, the US private sector and other members of the TACA during the official talks<br /><p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">-- Amb. wrapped up 2022 by attending USG-Africa
Ministerial </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">on AGOA as Chairwoman of US-Africa Trade Advisory Committee (TACA);
USEXIM's Annual Conference where her firm, #FE3DS, helped secure a renewal
long-term battery project receive EXIM's Sub-Saharan Africa Deal of the Year;
and Pres. Biden's US-Africa Summit & Business Forum with African Presidents.</span><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZKv0mC6KctvICjOG2GH_s7bzXtAxxMcQDAyPPewFtPXpdGui6CuluQKNVGdOlnci5Yeta9jvH_W9evC36RkZPlf98aFQVBQ1KBOhRfKMNky60LjElBeLf4GfM7ZfXyXnJ9tx7lRw3ig6loyuStwQsnVDYC2A_VdWNC2DwysN7PN8zv-cmb6oDTLWR1w/s1219/image.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1219" data-original-width="975" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZKv0mC6KctvICjOG2GH_s7bzXtAxxMcQDAyPPewFtPXpdGui6CuluQKNVGdOlnci5Yeta9jvH_W9evC36RkZPlf98aFQVBQ1KBOhRfKMNky60LjElBeLf4GfM7ZfXyXnJ9tx7lRw3ig6loyuStwQsnVDYC2A_VdWNC2DwysN7PN8zv-cmb6oDTLWR1w/w293-h274/image.png" width="293" /></a></div> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQag1mLTiSPelFiPM9nDBUe_WmMA8wbFUiYr8HgUornIf32ghmP6dol_y3C63nVGmQSDdzjHCw3HfFtbxN2gk3Iq4jlwO5qFsxIHbSXlhyDMx4eJhim-lKEaYi_m7ayJnyYG-gVVMHSStPTgcjdiVD22QKf7aKf2P13q0J5gHlAjpOn5zi0u1SgjpYZQ/s1066/EXIM%202022%20Pic%20with%20EXIM%20Chairwoman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQag1mLTiSPelFiPM9nDBUe_WmMA8wbFUiYr8HgUornIf32ghmP6dol_y3C63nVGmQSDdzjHCw3HfFtbxN2gk3Iq4jlwO5qFsxIHbSXlhyDMx4eJhim-lKEaYi_m7ayJnyYG-gVVMHSStPTgcjdiVD22QKf7aKf2P13q0J5gHlAjpOn5zi0u1SgjpYZQ/w297-h266/EXIM%202022%20Pic%20with%20EXIM%20Chairwoman.jpg" width="297" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><br /><br /> <span style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><br /></span></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzq-ETZz7Y8umEHbVswXwXPDyJCz2yo3LFSgpY1WsX3IGK-5VVq7HkaoWCz3uzGL_xy_ncYtxEKQGyHqzxEMCiD-pLXOKNiMewK1yeVvruTgSooRh6OwMwakGDcTWuTOcfAhsFBaVyjTKq06NUxHH9O3Gn1lSvTdDj_zxje9gohuHqCwDW-Mwb5pSddg/s1066/EXIM%202022%20Pic%20with%20ESS%20and%20EXIM%20Chairwoman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="800" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzq-ETZz7Y8umEHbVswXwXPDyJCz2yo3LFSgpY1WsX3IGK-5VVq7HkaoWCz3uzGL_xy_ncYtxEKQGyHqzxEMCiD-pLXOKNiMewK1yeVvruTgSooRh6OwMwakGDcTWuTOcfAhsFBaVyjTKq06NUxHH9O3Gn1lSvTdDj_zxje9gohuHqCwDW-Mwb5pSddg/w299-h249/EXIM%202022%20Pic%20with%20ESS%20and%20EXIM%20Chairwoman.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><u><b>November 2022</b></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;"><b>-- </b>Dr. Sanders was invited to attend Foreign Policy
Magazine's & Population Institute event on the global impact of the world’s
population surpassing 8 billion people, which is projected to take place on
November 15. This people growth with the backdrop of global crises, slowdown in
global economic growth, and the people impacted most - women and girls. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">#ForeignPolicyMagazine, #GlobalPopulation, #CEOFEEEDS,
#GlobalCrises</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">-- Amb. Sanders had the pleasure to be a key speaker, as
a Gallup Senior Scientist at Meridian House-USIP event highlighting global
internet connectivity and internet access issues. As Gallup Senior Scientist,
Dr. Sanders presented #Gallup Global Data on world, regional and
Africa-specific challenges in this area, noting largest impact on Africa's
women, at-risks communities around the world, and small businesses:
https://lnkd.in/dQg_sf2U; #</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">SMEs, #Gallup,
#CEOFEEEDS, #Africa, #InternetAccessConnectivity </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><b><u>September 2022:</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">— Amb. Sanders participated in Foreign Policy Magazine's
UN-related event discussing insights from leading policymakers, development
practitioners, on fallout from the Russia-Ukraine crisis and how multilateral
institutions can identify targeted strategies to more effectively support
the world’s most vulnerable. #ForeignPolicyMagazine, #UN2022, #Multilateralism,
#Vulnerable, #UkraineRussia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">-- Amb Sanders participated in Foreign Policy's (FP)
& Food for the Hungry's event focused on exploring measures that
can help mitigate risks for fragile economies, conflict-affected countries,
supply chain disruptions, geopolitical instability, inflation and climate
change. Actionable recommendation: global stakeholders develop innovative plans
to assist. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">#FoodCrisis, #GlobalConflicts,
#Inflation, #SupplyChain, #ForeignPolicy</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">#Food4Hungry, #CEOFEEEDS, #AmbSanders, #FEEEDS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">-- Dr. Sanders attended a discussion with His Excellency
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of the Federal Republic of
Somalia. The elected President came into office for the 2nd time highlighting
his goal of a more inclusive government & greater stability. #Somalia</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-64738650767298785782022-12-20T04:08:00.144+01:002023-02-14T01:43:15.807+01:00Ambassador Robin Sanders on AlJazeera News- Discusses Biden's US-Africa Summit Goals and Outcomes - Dec 16, 2022<p><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Ambassador Robin Sanders, who attended several key sessions of the recently held US-Africa Leaders' Summit by U.S. President Biden, discusses on Al Jazeera News (see link below), the importance of the U.S. Administration's reset with African nations, particularly in the areas of trade, investment, transportation, infrastructure, climate change, renewables, and the Diaspora. Sanders also emphasized in the interview, that although the US will be heavily working on these areas, it will also keep focus on our core values of democracy, and human rights. She noted that the high level of commitments - signed deals and investments -- which were made at the December 13-16, 2022, Summit was impressive, and included large and small U.S. and Africa companies. As an example, she mentioned Nigeria's Sapele Power, PLC (</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://sapelepower.com/">Sapele Power Plc Online</a>)<span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"> and its project with the US company ESS Inc. - (</span><a href="https://essinc.com/">Long-duration Energy Storage | ESS, Inc.</a>)<span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">, which manufacturers long duration energy storage. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">Background: The Ambassador serves as an advisor on the climate-smart renewable Sapele-ESS Energy Project, and also attended Biden's December 2022 US-Africa Summit, particularly its sessions on US-Africa trade as she is Chairwoman of the US-Africa Trade Advisory Council (TACA) for the U.S. Trade Representative and also the US-Africa Business forum of the Summit in her capacity as CEO of FEEEDS & FE3DS, LLC, which focuses on advocacy in support of democracy and human rights; 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Robin Sanders on African Union Chairman Macky Sall's-Putin Meeting to Release Grain<p> Aljazeera (AJA) News interviews Ambassador Robin Sanders on African Union (AU) Chairman Macky Sall's meeting with Russian President Valdimir Putin, as Sall, representing Africa's diplomacy, seeks release of wheat stocks being held hostage as Russian blocks food stocks and other goods on ships stuck in the Ukrainian Port of Odessa. </p><p>Sall, who is also President of Senegal, along with Chairperson of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, encouraged the Russian President not to continue to have Africa be a victim of the current war. The Continent's current food insecurity crisis, which was already reeling from upticks in regional conflicts, and the impact of COVID, has been further hurt as the transport of global food stocks and prices of wheat and corn are impacted by the Russian-Ukraine War. The Region's ever-worsening food crisis is affecting daily some 8.4 million people.* Over the last 4 years, the African Continent imported nearly 44 percent of its wheat from Russian, valued at over $3.7 billion, and 12 percent from Ukraine valued at $1.4 billion. Furthermore, globally, Russian supplies about 12 percent of the world's wheat.**</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XvNOgznWVtg" width="439" youtube-src-id="XvNOgznWVtg"></iframe></div><br /><p><i>*Source: Africa Live, TV June 6, 2022; </i></p><p>** <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/grain-supply-tops-putin-african-union-head-talks-85160500#:~:text=African%20countries%20imported%2044%25%20of,to%20the%20African%20Development%20Bank.">Grain supply tops Putin-African Union head talks agenda - ABC News (go.com)</a>; <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/28/ukraine/russia-war-continues-africa-food-crisis-looms">Ukraine/Russia: As War Continues, Africa Food Crisis Looms | Human Rights Watch (hrw.org)</a></p><p><i>A FEEEDS Blogspot </i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-12626899947156702872022-06-09T01:10:00.017+01:002022-06-09T01:24:15.422+01:00Dr. Sanders on Nigeria's Channels TV on the passing of Madeleine Albright & Her Impact on US Leadership<p> See Dr. Sanders on Nigeria's Channels TV on the passing of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright -- highlighting her impact on US and NATO leadership; American Women's Leadership in the U.S. Government as first female Secretary of State; and Albright's foreshadowing of Russia's current behavior leading up to invasion of Ukraine. Sanders remarks begin at minute 49:53: </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jV5rz6bESc">Ukraine: Zelensky Makes Plea For Full Membership Of EU + More Stories | Russian Invasion - YouTube</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A FEEEDS Blogspot</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-9891694436431434552021-12-28T04:26:00.001+01:002021-12-28T04:26:34.262+01:00Sanders Appears on China Global Television Discussing the China-Africa Annual Forum<p></p><span style="font-size: medium;">During China Global Television Network (CGTN) "The Heat," news program, Ambassador Sanders discussed China's approach to Africa, and highlighted the annual China-Africa Forum, as an example, that China has held with Continental leaders annually since the 1990s. She noted how important it is for the US to engage Africa on its own terms and "do what we do best," by stepping up more and demonstrating our commitment and the strategic partnership on trade and other key issues from democracy to security that it wants with the region as well as its goal of building stronger ties:</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VroTIiJtTdk&t=58s" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Heat: China-Africa Forum - YouTube</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A FEEEDS Series Blogspot</div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-37253864882380476582021-12-28T01:41:00.012+01:002021-12-28T04:27:17.771+01:00Dr. Sanders on Al Jazeera Television: On Burkina Faso Unrest & Uganda-DRC Joint Military Actions - As Terrorist Activities in Africa Increase<p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Amb. Sanders on AL Jazeera (AJA) News - Interviews on Increasing Terrorist Activities in Burkina Faso & Uganda-DRC Joint Border Security Operations</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p><b><u>AJA News - Burkina Faso Unrest & Insecurity:</u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ambassador Sanders appeared on Al Jazeera (AJA) News on December 3, 2021, to talk, in general, about the continuing rise and expansion of jihadist activity in the Sahel as insecurity concerns reached a peak with massive street protests in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, over the last few months. Protesters are demanding the government improve security and the protection of civilians against the uptick of violence, murder, and human rights abuses, leading to the resignation of the country's Prime Minister, Christophe Dabire, and a care-taker government in response. Meanwhile, the insecurity driven by terrorist attacks continues unabated. </p><p class="MsoNormal">The rash and harsh violence has been led by local militants, disaffected or jihadists-leaning groups with both support (monetary and <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/material-and-materiel-1689440#:~:text=Definitions,%E2%80%94%20or%20can%20be%20%E2%80%94%20made.&text=The%20noun%20materiel%20(pronounced%20muh,organization%2C%20especially%20a%20military%20unit.">materiel</a>) linkages to various affiliates of Al Qaeda and its splitter groups; remnants of the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27994277">Islamic State Group from Iraq and Syria (ISIS)</a>; such as the Islamic State-West Africa Providence (aka ISWAP); and possibly now fighters from Afghanistan and the Libyan conflict. As a former National Security Director for Africa, and U.S. Representative to the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), Sanders stresses in the AJA new broadcast that one cannot talk about the insecurity driven by these elements in Burkina Faso in a vacuum from the rest of the deteriorating security situation happening in the five countries of the <a href="https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Terrorism/Counter-terrorism-projects/G5-Sahel">Sahel-Group of Five (G-5)</a> and Northern Nigeria. She notes that Al
Qaeda affiliates started moving into the Sahel region as far back as 2009-2010, with the fragmentation of ISIS and later the buildup of the <a href="https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/islamic-state-west-africa-province-iswap-0">Islamic State-West Africa Province</a> (ISWAP) in Nigeria. As a result, both the level, and number of countries where jihadist
groups are operating has grown three-fold not just in the Sahel Region, but elsewhere in Africa. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Burkina Faso has become part of a continuing jihadist effort to target select countries because they understand the advantages they
have when there is not a strong security or government structure or the resources (manpower
as well as materiel) to combat them. In addition, these terrorist groups are strategic in
building ties with local disaffected groups (over anti-Western sentiments and issues of extreme poverty, in-country regional/ethnic differences, food insecurity, & lack of development) in every country in the Sahel. These myriad of issues gives outside jihadists groups several things: power, influence, reach, and key partners to develop local strategic knowledge. They have used this framework not only to further expand in Burkina Faso, but in Mali (where there have been now for a decade, and which has had 2 coups on 12 months), Niger, northern Nigeria (at least since 2010), Chad, and other areas of Africa such as the Central African Republic, the Cabo Delgado Region of Mozambique. While in East Africa, it is Al Shabab applying the same tactics in parts of Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. Thus far, 2020-2021 has been the most violent years in the advancement of jihadist violence in the Sahel. Click here for link <a href="https://youtu.be/cSnTIyLUrzo">https://youtu.be/cSnTIyLUrzo</a> or see video below:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzG2HQ2kJ_KhExCA14ecItC0C1WEolyazIW19jtVR_pL7UfPMJNqg4HcfbKo1Vs3Btwui880EFPbSRQhOwWJg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><b>AJA News - DRC allows Uganda Forces Hot Pursuit & Joint Operations Against Terrorists:</b></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Similarly on the issue of jihadists-linked expansion into other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, Ambassador Sanders was later interviewed on AJA December 6, 2021, to address the recent approval by the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) regarding its decision to allow Uganda forces to initiate hot pursuit to enter DRC as well as participate in joint operations in DRC to help quell the large uptick in jihadist-related violence on the border between the two countries. Furthermore, Uganda has also blamed the recent bombings and protest in its capital Kampala, by local disaffected groups </o:p>(on political, economic, and a range of quality-of-life issues), as well as t<o:p>errorist organizations like the <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20211202-ugandan-mission-in-dr-congo-opens-old-wounds-sparks-new-anxieties">Allied Democratic Forces</a> (ADF) working with the support and sometimes direction of outside jihadists groups such as the Islamic State and any of its affiliates. </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Sanders highlighted the sensitivity of those living in Eastern DRC regarding these joint border operations with Uganda troops (despite the approval of the DRC Government) given the former's previous behavior during the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59507543">1998-2003 conflict between Uganda and Rwanda</a> (mostly over Eastern DRC's rich mineral/natural resources), which played out in these same areas of Eastern Congo, resulting in high causalities for villagers and innocent civilians, along with reports of serious human rights abuses (including rape and sexual exploitation), and the conscription of child soldiers to which Uganda was fined on all in 2005 by the International Court of Justice in the Haque $USD 13 billion, which it still has not paid. </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>There is substantial fear by the local population that it will be years again before Ugandan troops fully leave Eastern Congo given this new foothold proffered by the DRC government. In addition, Sanders pointed out that the Uganda-DRC border is yet the latest in the ever-increasing forays in the last couple of years, by outside jihadist groups into new areas in Sub Saharan Africa. They are applying the same strategic and tactical framework they have used in West Africa since 2009-2010 but are now applying to multiple countries throughout the Africa Region where they had not prior operated -- at least not to the extent and frequency they have in this 2020-2021 period. Hence, setting up 2022 to be similar in number of attacks, and in more and more African countries. </o:p>Click link for interview <a class="style-scope ytcp-video-share-dialog" href="https://youtu.be/gagWnWK46fk" id="watch-url" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: var(--ytcp-font-subheading_-_font-size,15px); line-height: 24px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/gagWnWK46fk</a> or see clip below:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzH80CtqXOxsmZlD7k42RVcgyMRwxgIy1hvton4Za60HwDe4jAgCYMNwtodKngVsQV-XXjIh1eNRk6MfOPNuw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A FEEEDS Series Blogspot</div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-12428545916546771802021-12-01T23:29:00.004+01:002021-12-21T16:32:27.209+01:00Panels on Today's Transnational Threats & Podcast on Linking Data-Policy-Dialogue in Addressing Africa's Development Needs<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Below are links to several podcast & panels which either feature or include Ambassador Sanders as a panelist:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-- Sanders participates in Georgetown University's International School of Diplomacy's (ISD) panel on today's</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ransnational</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hreats.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sanders was asked to discuss these issues in Africa. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Panel discussion can be found </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://isd.georgetown.edu/2021/09/23/event-an-expert-panel-on-transnational-challenges-for-diplomacy/&source=gmail&ust=1638482089477000&usg=AOvVaw2uUjj0Yjsx2B5p0NdEsA_I" href="https://isd.georgetown.edu/2021/09/23/event-an-expert-panel-on-transnational-challenges-for-diplomacy/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-- Sanders on Gallup's Podcast highlighting the importance of the data-policy-dialogue linkages needed in order to concretely understand & improve life quality & development for Africa, particularly for Africa's women and region's young people </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://news.gallup.com/podcast/353909/women-backbone-africa.aspx?utm_source%3Dalert%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_content%3Dmorelink%26utm_campaign%3Dsyndication&source=gmail&ust=1638231545456000&usg=AOvVaw2M6MwSKNTjsoT_v-ysaeHU" href="https://news.gallup.com/podcast/353909/women-backbone-africa.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_content=morelink&utm_campaign=syndication" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://news.gallup.com/<wbr></wbr>podcast/353909/women-backbone-<wbr></wbr>africa.aspx?utm_source=alert&<wbr></wbr>utm_medium=email&utm_content=<wbr></wbr>morelink&utm_campaign=<wbr></wbr>syndication</a></span></p><div class="yj6qo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></div><div class="adL" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </div><div class="adL" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>A FEEEDS Series Blogspot</i></div><div class="adL" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-78571765492139076342021-11-10T01:43:00.000+01:002021-11-10T01:43:43.201+01:00FEEEDS Global Issues Update: Concordia's 2021 Summit Report, Women's Health Index, Democracy Regression & Climate Change/COP26 <p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a follow-up to its recent, and well-respect annual summit, always held on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, <a href="https://www.concordia.net/" target="_blank">Concordia's</a> 2021 event highlighted the state of the world's social and business issues. This year's Concordia Summit, its 11th, had nearly 300 speakers addressing international issues. You can learn more by reading the report on the summit </span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://concordia.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D1d669d0ab6f1a460eb9bcf57e%26id%3Db88819be80%26e%3D908d3a3381&source=gmail&ust=1636133585226000&usg=AFQjCNHndLGMfZJza6NkXcrNoWIv2R3IAA" href="https://concordia.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1d669d0ab6f1a460eb9bcf57e&id=b88819be80&e=908d3a3381" style="color: #ea660c; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">now live</a>, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as well as review some of the key factoids around global issues, which were highlighted at the 4-day event(</span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://concordia.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D1d669d0ab6f1a460eb9bcf57e%26id%3Db98422e214%26e%3D908d3a3381&source=gmail&ust=1636133585226000&usg=AFQjCNHbakkdLjAN7NoEcxh-_N1Gxw35OA" href="https://concordia.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1d669d0ab6f1a460eb9bcf57e&id=b98422e214&e=908d3a3381" style="color: #ea660c; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">2021 summit: by the numbers</a>). The Summit was held <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">both virtually, and with limited in-person interaction</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">. </span></span></p><p><span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ambassador Sanders, as a global advocate on key development issues, is a senior advisor to </span><a href="https://www.concordia.net/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Concordia</a><span style="background-color: white;">. One of the key session for Dr. Sanders, as CEO-FEEEDS, was the data presentation on the </span><a href=" https://hologic.womenshealthindex.com/en?atr=false" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Women's Health Index</a><span style="background-color: white;"> done by </span><a href=" https://www.hologic.com" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Hologic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> with polling done in partnership by </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354761/women-worldwide-not-getting-tests-save-lives.aspx " style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Gallup World Poll </a><span style="background-color: white;">on key health concerns for women. The Index focuses on health issues as well as servicing gaps for women world-wide in some 116 countries based on interviews with 120,000 women. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Other issues during the Summit which resonated</span><span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> with FEEEDS' advocacy were turn-backs on democracy, COVID'pushing more people into extreme poverty, and COP26. Below are some highlights on these key FEEEDS's advocacy issues, which were highlighted by various speakers in various ways during the Summit:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-- Turn-backs on Democracy: Pressures on democracy (what FEEEDS calls "Democracy Regression") continues to increase across every region of the world, through both government and unilateral actions (from Myanmar to Brazil and coups in West Africa) as well as extreme societal and political divides in countries like the United States, France, Germany and India;</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-- COVID-19 & Poverty: COVID-19, is not only turning back the clock on previous global efforts to reduce poverty (<a href="https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/" target="_blank">2000-2015 MDG</a>s & <a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals">2015-2030 SDGS</a> underway now), but possibly pushing another <a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impact-covid-19-global-poverty-turning-corner-pandemic-2021">97 million more </a>people into extreme poverty (<a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/covid-19-to-add-as-many-as-150-million-extreme-poor-by-2021">define as less than $1.90/day</a>). We must step up and make three-times the effort to get back to pre-pandemic levels, which in and of themselves were stark. Pre-pandemic 2019 levels had 635 million people <a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impact-covid-19-global-poverty-turning-corner-pandemic-2021">(see chart on 2015-2020)</a> living in extreme poverty, even though great global reductions had been achieved year-on-year over the last decade. COVID-19 not only stopped progress, but turned back the clock on poverty reduction. The most recent extreme global poverty figures by the World Bank has the combined the 2019 pre-pandemic poverty figure (635 miilion), with the COVID-driven additional 97 million -- resulting in a projected 2021 total figure of <a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impact-covid-19-global-poverty-turning-corner-pandemic-2021">711 million people</a> who face extreme poverty today. (NB: U.S., Brazil & India, in that order, had highest COVID deaths);</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-- Climate Change & COP26: Bottom line is f</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">aster action and larger financial commitments are needed to reduce the affects of climate change by both governments, business, and institutions. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Underscoring these two points, numerous Concordia's Summit sessions further stressed that we need to move three times faster in order to reach the net zero goal of reducing carbon emissions by </span></span>1.5˚C. <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition, there needs to be more action on helping with </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">climate refugees and climate famine as both are growing at alarming rates. It was recognized that a lot depended, of course, on what the </span><a href="https://unfccc.int/conference/glasgow-climate-change-conference-october-november-2021" style="font-family: inherit;">26th United Nations' climate change meeting of the Conference of Parties</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in </span>Glasgow<span style="font-family: inherit;">, United Kingdom produced, (better known as COP26). So far here is where we are on a few areas coming out of COP26 (section will be updated as other commitments come in and are clarified):</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-- 100 world leaders attended;</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-- 450 global businesses promised to climate reduction by 2023, valued at USD$130 trillion;</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-- Net 0 - United Kingdom announced it would become a "net zero financial center," where firms would publish their climate actions;</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-- $11 billion pledged by the United States to help developing countries with climate change;</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-- $19 billion committed by 100 countries to address deforestation and forest </span>degradation, including assistance with rebuilding and rejuvenating the world's forest over the next 8 years. Included in this pledge was $1.7billion to assist and support indigenous peoples in the world's key rain forest area. (NB: Of note, rain forest areas as large as the United Kingdom were lost last year due to climate change; 85 percent of the world's forest are in Brazil, Congo Basin & Indonesia. Dr. Sanders has been to all three);</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">-- 100 countries signed on to the U.S. & UK led push for <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59137828">reductions in methane gas</a>, another contributor to climate change CO2 emissions; (NB: <a href="https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions">Top U.S. CO2 </a> emissions in this order are fossil fuels (transportation, industry, electricity, homes & businesses); agriculture (methane gas); unmanaged land and forestry use.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> -- 40 countries also pledged to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59159018">shift away from coal/fossil fuel</a>. However, there is a lot of leeway in what this might mean from new <a href="https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-business-poland-scotland-4e997ebd01e1748382da7b0afe562d81">investments to financing and production</a>. Varying dates for ending total use were conveyed. Biggest polluters -- China, U.S., Australia, India and Japan -- did not sign onto this pledge.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">-- $105 billion committed to help <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/03/world/cop26-glasgow-climate-summit#what-is-cop26">spur green energy projects</a> in developing nations was also pledged.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><u>resource notes:</u></div><div>1. World News Live, CGTN 11/4/21</div><div>2. World News Live & BBC news 11/3/21</div><div>3. World News Live, CGTN, BBC news & NPR 11/2/21</div><div>4. World News Live, CGTN & BBC news 11/3/21</div><div>5. COP26 11/2/21</div><div>6. BBC & Reuters 11/4/21</div><div>7. NYTimes online 11/4/21</div><div><br /></div><div>A FEEEDS Series Blogspot<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-42044657774010249502021-10-28T00:53:00.015+01:002021-10-28T00:56:59.128+01:00Ambassador Sanders: Remembering Secretary Colin Powell -- the Person<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Eg8PobH6KaA/YXnkrUifqnI/AAAAAAAAHwY/NpHXn6lFDNQ8bdJXxXICiOM4LN6lvxvfACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Sanders-Secretary%2BPowell%2BCongo%2BSwearing-in.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1448" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Eg8PobH6KaA/YXnkrUifqnI/AAAAAAAAHwY/NpHXn6lFDNQ8bdJXxXICiOM4LN6lvxvfACLcBGAsYHQ/w290-h320/Sanders-Secretary%2BPowell%2BCongo%2BSwearing-in.jpg" width="290" /></a></div></div><div>Having served in the U.S. diplomatic corps during the tenure of Secretary Colin Powell, Ambassador Sanders' shares one of her remembrances of him in a television interview about the late General -- highlighting that he was not only one of the nation's top policy and strategic leaders, but leaves a legacy of kindness, thoughtfulness, and inclusiveness with his passing. Sanders also had the honor to be sworn into her first Ambassadorship, to the Republic of Congo by the late Secretary, with the ceremony which also included Ambassador Andrew Young (see photos. </div><div><br /></div><div>Ambassador Sanders was the first</div><div>woman and first African-American</div><div>to serve as U.S. Ambassador to </div><div>Republic of Congo, and later was</div><div>the first woman of any ethnic </div><div>background to serve as Ambassador</div><div><div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S-agIINjYQ8/YXnkrd5DLXI/AAAAAAAAHwU/Yg8zQR9qRDUKx3aldkj7A5Nv1rEThzI1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1026/Sanders-Secretary%2BPowell%2BCongon%2BSwearing-In%2Bpic%25232.jpeg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="1026" height="263" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S-agIINjYQ8/YXnkrd5DLXI/AAAAAAAAHwU/Yg8zQR9qRDUKx3aldkj7A5Nv1rEThzI1gCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h263/Sanders-Secretary%2BPowell%2BCongon%2BSwearing-In%2Bpic%25232.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>to Nigeria. Click the link to hear </div><div>Ambassador Sanders televised remembrance: </div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K91sKUu5aDM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K91sKUu5aDM</a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A FEEEDS Series Blogspot</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-66686528196854102712021-09-26T01:57:00.058+01:002021-12-15T22:43:05.122+01:00Ambassador Robin Sanders & General Kip Ward: Africa Podcast: Security, US-Africa Relations & US-Africa-China<p> As part of the podcast series " The General and the Ambassador," produced by the prestigious <a href="https://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/" target="_blank">American Academy of Diplomacy</a>, with the support of the University of North Carolina Global Affairs, Chapel Hill, <i>Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders</i> and <i>General Kip Ward,</i> outline for the audience a range of US-Africa issues including but not limited to encouraging Americans to both understand and appreciate the importance of the US-Africa relationship. This includes ensuring the continent's key partnership in U.S. national security and fighting terrorism and extremism in the region; its role in the U.S. economic prosperity as Africa is home to the world's largest next generation of economic, political and innovators leaders. Ambassador Sanders and General Ward bring their respective views to the podcast as to how the US can better manage what is being referred to today as the "Great Powers Competition," (GPC) between the US and China, and how Africa see this issue and the region's desire to have a relationship and partnership with the US above and beyond the GPC. Scroll below to see<i> flyer</i> and <i>topic highlights </i>from the podcast and click on this link <a href="https://bit.ly/AmbSanders-GenWard" target="_blank"><i>Ambassador Sanders' and General Ward's Podcast</i></a> to <i>hear</i> the Ambassador and the General discuss current key US-Africa issues: </p><p><br /></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #222222; border-collapse: collapse; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; width: 100%px;"><tbody style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><tr style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">The Opportunities - markets, youth bulge and UN votes</strong></span></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-align: left;"><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">The Dangers - political instability, sharply rising violence from criminal networks and extremist groups</strong></span></span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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She also served as the Permanent Representative to ECOWAS, Director for Africa at the NSC and Deputy Commandant of the NDU Eisenhower College. She is the CEO of FEEEDS and FE3DS, focusing on Africa.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">General Ward was the Commander of US Africa Command (2007-2011). Just prior, he was Deputy Commander, US European Command. His other assignments include Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Egypt and the Joint Staff. Currently, he is the President of the Sentel Corporation. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-62205429012186106332021-08-27T23:01:00.046+01:002021-08-27T23:19:59.722+01:00Ambassador Sanders, CEO-FEEEDS, Appointed Concordia's Senior Advisor, Prestigious Leading Global Organization Fostering Collaboration on Global Issues<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Below follows <i>Concordia's</i> announcement of its new <i>Senior Advisors</i>, who will help the organization further its mission to <i>"create a global community where challenges are solved collaboratively
and inclusively by actively fostering, elevating, and sustaining cross-sector partnerships
for social impact."</i> Ambassador Sanders will be participating in Concordia's upcoming annual summit of world political, business, and social impact leaders held during this year's United Nations session. Dr. Sanders will also advise and lend insights for its international and domestic events and meetings throughout 2021-2022.</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="templateContainer" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px none rgb(156, 3, 68); color: black; max-width: 600px; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td id="templateHeader" style="background-image: none; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><a href="https://concordia.net/" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank" title=""><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnRetinaImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/1d669d0ab6f1a460eb9bcf57e/images/36070572-461e-6990-f7e4-708e1a264499.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1000px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="230" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td id="templateBody" style="background-image: none; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom: 2px none rgb(234, 234, 234); border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 15px 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #121e35; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><h2 class="null" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We’re thrilled to announce the appointment of 60 Advisors and Senior Advisors to the Concordia community for 2021-22. </h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 21px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Selected from a pool of over 125 nominees, this impressive group of individuals, representing a multitude of sectors, industries, and geographies, will play an instrumental role in guiding the direction, development, and growth of Concordia over the next 12 months. From lending their insight into policy developments to sharing their expertise on innovations in their respective industries, Concordia’s Advisors and Senior Advisors are carefully selected by Concordia’s executive leadership, Leadership Council, Board of Directors, and staff, and serve for a one-year term. </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td id="templateFooter" style="background-image: none; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><img align="left" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/1d669d0ab6f1a460eb9bcf57e/images/43a608e2-4a0b-1b45-f1e0-f4ab387db6b6.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 651px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="327.12" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/1d669d0ab6f1a460eb9bcf57e/images/dff7a78e-004d-6ea5-46fb-34b411d79bb5.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" src="https://mcusercontent.com/1d669d0ab6f1a460eb9bcf57e/images/14bd5e56-602b-0ecd-94d6-e50a8224e572.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><br /><i>A FEEEDS Series Blogspot</i></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-85684492031278589872021-08-26T21:36:00.050+01:002021-08-26T21:53:05.166+01:00Amb. Sanders on "The Gallup Podcast" on Africa Development Issues, Noting Key Role of African Women & Youth<section class="cmstile tile-video type-release js-masonry-item" data-tileid="353909-NEWSPODCAST" style="background-color: #666666; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, aktiv-grotesk-std, Arial, Helvetica, source-han-sans-japanese, source-han-sans-simplified-c, system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; left: 310px; line-height: 1.35; padding: 1px 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 310px;"><div class="tile-inner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; margin: 4px 5px; min-height: 300px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 300px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><a africa="" are="" aria-label="" backbone="" class="overlay-link show" href="https://news.gallup.com/podcast/353909/women-backbone-africa.aspx" of="" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; 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text-decoration-line: none;">GALLUP PODCAST</a></div><time datetime="2021-08-19" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; float: left;">AUG 19, 2021</time></div><div class="copy" style="bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; padding: 0px 20px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"><div class="tile-linktext" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 data-overflow-checked="1" data-overflow="ellipsis" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.7; margin: 20px 0px;"><a href="https://news.gallup.com/podcast/353909/women-backbone-africa.aspx" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">"Women Are the Backbone" of Africa</a></h3></div></div></div></section><section class="cmstile tile-video type-release js-masonry-item" data-tileid="353621-NEWSPODCAST" style="background-color: #666666; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, aktiv-grotesk-std, Arial, Helvetica, source-han-sans-japanese, source-han-sans-simplified-c, system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; left: 620px; line-height: 1.35; padding: 1px 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 310px;"><div class="tile-inner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; margin: 4px 5px; min-height: 300px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 300px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"></div></div></section><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ambassador Sanders discusses a </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>variety </span><span>of Africa development </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>issues with </span><span>Gallup's </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Mohamed Younis on <br /></span><span>"The Gallup Podcast." <br /></span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In the podcast, Sanders</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>highlights the <br /></span><span>importance and linkages of <br /></span><span>data-policy-dialogue </span><span>to </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>concretely </span><span>understand and </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>improve life-quality and <br /></span><span>development for Africa, especially for <br /></span><span>Africa's women, who are the backbone </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the Continent in many ways.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>She also stressed the key role of the<br /></span><span>Continent's large youth bulge of current</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>and </span><span>future leaders, in a range of areas from</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">entrepreneurship to social enterprise to fintech, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>civil society, education, and in the agriculture and health <br /></span><span>sectors: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bit.ly/Sanders-AfricaGallupPodcast&source=gmail&ust=1630092411719000&usg=AFQjCNGdQ-_zvSDeWOpOsfLkbuYFbDJdKg" href="https://bit.ly/Sanders-AfricaGallupPodcast" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span>https://bit.ly/<wbr></wbr>Sanders-AfricaGallupPodcast</span></a> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">For more research data on key Africa development issues, including data on how women and Africa's young people feel about important sectors from education to health, and housing to whether their country is a good place to start a small business or if they feel secure or are concerned about their well-being, including whether they believe they are "thriving," or not, see this year's 2021-2020 @theFEEEDS Research and Data Indices: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://bit.ly/FEEEDSIndex2021-2020" style="font-size: 18pt;">https://bit.ly/FEEEDSIndex2021-2020</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>
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- "Africa's Business Economy & the AfCFTA — The Key Role of SMEs"<p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This Press Announcement First Appeared in <a href="http://Allafrica.com">Allafrica.com</a></span></i><a data-img-src="" href="http://ambassadorrobinreneesanders.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10579f; font-family: Arial, "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Visit FEEEDS Initiative (Washington, DC)"></a></p><div class="publisher-name" data-img-src="" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FEEEDS Initiative (Washington, DC)</div><span class="kindofstory" face="Arial, "Liberation Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 11.05px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">ANNOUNCEMENT</span><div class="story-body" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="story-body-text" data-para-word-count="31" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;">Date: Thursday, July 15, 2021<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Time: 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Time Zones: 3:00 p.m. (Cairo & Jo'burg); 4:00 p.m. (Addis & Nairobi); 2:00 p.m. (Lagos & London)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Duration: 2 hours</p><p class="story-body-text" data-para-word-count="31" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;">Event Theme: "Africa's Business Economy & the AfCFTA — The Key Role of SMEs"</p><p class="story-body-text" data-para-word-count="54" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><a class="external external-icon" href="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&referrer=&eventid=3293315&sessionid=1&key=BE91851644F8D9F5D159DEFD04E1B639&regTag=&V2=false&sourcepage=register" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10579f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&referrer=&eventid=3293315&sessionid=1&key=BE91851644F8D9F5D159DEFD04E1B639&regTag=&V2=false&sourcepage=register"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Register Now</span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-Hosts Ambassador Robin Sanders and Gallup Global Managing Partner Jon Clifton, in partnership with allAfrica.com, the African & Caribbean Business Council (ACBC), United People for African Congress (UPAC) and U.S.-Africa Trade Council, invite you to the 8th Annual FEEEDS-Gallup Africa Forum: Africa's Business Economy & the AfCFTA — the Role of SMEs.</p><p class="story-body-text" data-para-word-count="96" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;">This is an opportunity to hear firsthand from the event's honored featured speakers: Dr. Hippolyte Fofack of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Dr. Francis Mangeni, advisor to the Secretary General of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Each will discuss how their institutions support the critical role Africa and the Africa diaspora's small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) serve in the region's economy and the broader success of the AfCFTA. Gallup's leading Africa research director, Magali Rheault, will scene set with relevant polling data on the current business environment for Africa SMEs and regional economies.</p><p class="story-body-text" data-para-word-count="271" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SPEAKERS</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ambassador Robin Sanders</span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO of FEEEDS</em><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em>Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders served as one of the U.S. Government's top diplomats on African issues over a long career in the United States Diplomatic Corps reaching senior positions ranging from Ambassador to the Republics of Nigeria, Republic of Congo, two stints – NSC Director for Africa at the White House, and U.S. Permanent Representative to the West African Regional Organization ECOWAS. Dr. Sanders received her doctor of science degree from Pittsburgh's Robert Morris University, where she also holds the title of Distinguished Public Service & Rooney Scholar; has MA and MS degrees from Ohio University; and, a BA from Hampton University. She is a recognized thought-leader on Africa's political, economic, technology, security (e.g. Boko Haram, Al Shabab) and policy issues, as well as on region's thematic topics such as SDGs, food security, democracy/elections, education & climate change. She has testified before the U.S. Congress on these topics. Her advisory firm is divided into two parts: The FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative and FE3DS, LLC. FEEEDS focuses on Africa economic development, Diaspora, Entrepreneurship/SMEs issues. FEEEDS also advises several organizations; co-hosts the annual Africa event with Gallup World Poll; and publishes @The FEEEDS Index. Sanders' national security expertise is based on her work at the White House; as Deputy Commandant-Eisenhower College, the National Defense University, the U.S. military's premier institution for strategic studies; her diplomatic postings; and her work on global issues. She is sought after by media such as Al Jazeera, China Television, VOA, and CNN for her Africa expertise. FE3DS, LLC provides business strategies on Africa trade, technology, power, renewables, affordable housing and aviation.</p><div id="in-article-p-mid" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div id="aans-body-mid" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="story-body-text" data-para-word-count="114" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Clifton</span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Global Managing Partner, Gallup</em><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em>Jon Clifton is the Global Managing Partner of Gallup, an advisory firm that specializes in big data analytics of employees, customers, students and citizens. Jon's mission is to help 7 billion citizens be heard on their most pressing work and life issues through the Gallup World Poll, a 100-year initiative spanning 150 countries. Because of his expertise, Jon has been interviewed on BBC News, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and Al-Jazeera, and has testified in front of the U.S. Congress on the state of American small business and entrepreneurship. He is a frequent contributor on Gallup.com and has written for The Hill, The Diplomatic Courier, and The Global Action Report.</p><div class="figure picture story-header" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><p class="story-body-text" data-para-word-count="233" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Hippolyte Fofack</span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Honored Featured Speaker</span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chief Economist, Director of Research and International Cooperation, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)</em><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em>Speaker Topic: "How Afreximbank Leverages Its Programs to Support the SME Sector."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dr. Hippolyte Fofack has more than 20 years of experience in development economics, international trade, banking and international finance and academia. Prior to joining the African Export-Import Bank, he was with the World Bank Group, where he served in several capacities, including as senior economist and head of the Macroeconomic and Growth Research Program. In 2005, Dr. Fofack was elected to the African Academy of Sciences, a continental organization dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for economic development and welfare improvement. He has served on the advisory board of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and is a member of the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa Board of Directors. He is also a member of several leading professional and scientific organizations, including the American Economic Association and the African Finance and Economic Association. Dr. Fofack has been a guest editor of several prominent journals, including The World Bank Economic Review and Economic History of Developing Regions. Dr. Fofack has been published extensively, is Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Issues in African Trade and Trade Finance (CIAT) and is a member of several editorial boards, including the Journal of African Development, the Journal of African Trade and the Gulf Economics Journal.</p><p class="story-body-text" data-para-word-count="196" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Francis Mangeni – Honored Featured Speaker</span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Head of Trade Promotion & Programs, Advisor to AfCFTA Secretary General</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Speaker Topic: "AfCFTA: How It Supports SME Participation in Regional Trade."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dr. Francis Mangeni has worked and consulted extensively on the multilateral trade system and African economic integration. He is a senior fellow with the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance and has served as head of trade promotion and programs with the AfCFTA and director of trade customs and monetary affairs with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. He has served as advisor to the Minister of Commerce and Industry of the government of Malawi, senior economist at the Permanent Delegation of the African Union to the United Nations and regional trade policy advisor at the Commission of the African Union, and acted as a consultant for numerous regional and international organizations. His analytical work has focused on the social and economic implications of economic reforms, negotiation preparation and trade opportunities. Dr. Mangeni's analyses have informed key initiatives for economic integration throughout Africa and served as a basis for advice to African diplomats attending World Trade Organization conferences and trade negotiations with Africa's major partners.</p><p class="story-body-text" data-para-word-count="137" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Magali Rheault</span><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Regional Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, Gallup World Poll</em><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em>Topic: "Current Africa Business Environment for SMEs & Regional Economies."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Magali Rheault is Regional Research Director for sub-Saharan Africa for the Gallup World Poll. As the largest independent source of global survey research, the World Poll measures the most important issues people around the world face. Ms. Rheault leads survey research operations across the African continent and is responsible for sampling, questionnaire design, field staff training and quality control. Her main research interests focus on the intersection of governance, economic growth and human development in sub-Saharan Africa. As an academically trained urban planner, Ms. Rheault focuses on big-picture thinking to better understand how people's surroundings shape their perceptions and opinions. She is passionate about translating data into information and knowledge to help clients incorporate survey findings into impactful initiatives.</p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-64505130636798921912021-05-27T18:12:00.003+01:002021-05-27T18:33:48.950+01:00Human Rights Issues of U.S. Policing A Year After George Floyd's Death - What the Data Tells Us?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MIkBJQvVFRE/YK_UYv3ZtyI/AAAAAAAAHnU/bIQEjH77W1sMXdEup9rySIMAeNh6BXSLQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="845" height="274" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MIkBJQvVFRE/YK_UYv3ZtyI/AAAAAAAAHnU/bIQEjH77W1sMXdEup9rySIMAeNh6BXSLQCLcBGAsYHQ/w296-h274/image.png" width="296" /></a></div><span class="gmail_default">Dr. Sanders appeared on Detroit-based radio program "The Lavenia Perryman Show," to discusses her recent article in Allafrica.com on <a href="Human Rights of U.S. Policing A Year After George Floyd: What the Data Tells Us?">Human Rights Issues of U.S. Policing A Year After George Floyd - What the Data Tells Us</a>, featuring data from Gallup's Center on Black Voices & Pew Research Center. Her clip also highlights 100th anniversary of the Black Tulsa Massacre. </span><p></p><p><span class="gmail_default">Begin at minute 36 in the link: </span><a href="https://fb.watch/5KvKsgbv85/" target="_blank">https://fb.watch/5KvKsgbv85/</a><span class="gmail_default">. 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Hazel</span> </p><p><i>A FEEEDS Blogspot</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-16389453292771192702021-05-21T18:24:00.002+01:002021-05-21T18:24:40.829+01:00Sanders & Other Experts on Nigeria's ARISETV: Africa & Domestic Policy - Biden's First 100 Days <p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-style: solid;">As CEO-FEEEDS, Ambassador Sanders, along with other experts, appeared on Nigeria's ARISE TV to discuss the impact of President Biden's First 100 Days both on US domestic and US-Africa policy. See the interview here: <a href="http://bit.ly/ARISETV-Nigeria">http://bit.ly/ARISETV-Nigeria</a> </span></strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-style: solid;"><br /></span></strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-style: solid;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">A FEEEDS Blogspot</span></i></span></strong></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-29134763085951216242021-05-21T18:04:00.005+01:002021-05-21T20:46:27.807+01:00Human Rights of U.S. Policing A Year After George Floyd: What the Data Tells Us? - By Dr. Robin Sanders<p><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">As we approach the May 25, 2021 year
anniversary of </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investigation.html" title="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investigation.html"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">George
Floyd's death</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">, and 100</span><sup><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">th</span></sup><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> anniversary
of the </span><a href="https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/" title="https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tulsa
Oklahoma Massacre</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> of over </span><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre" title="https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">100
African Americans</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> on May 31-June 1, 1921, it is time for
reflections, or better said a <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">data report card</span></i>, on
where things are, and where they are not. Has anything changed? Has progress
been made, particularly on perceptions regarding the racial divides that have
existed and still exist in American society today? All brought to the fore,
once again, in such a brutal way, with the 2020 killing of George Floyd.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">Clearly, this nation continues to struggle
with a myriad of historical and present-day social justice, economic, health
(COVID underscoring this further), and opportunity inequalities --
predominately impacting America's people of color and America's poor. Also,
part of this reflective discussion is the attendant optic of how the U.S. is
viewed overseas (especially in </span><a href="https://www.voanews.com/africa/africa-rises-rage-over-george-floyd-death-us" title="https://www.voanews.com/africa/africa-rises-rage-over-george-floyd-death-us"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Africa</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">,
other world regions of color, and in key </span><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2020/06/20/us-must-sit-up-eliminate-racial-discrimination-au-on-george-floyd-murder/" title="https://www.africanews.com/2020/06/20/us-must-sit-up-eliminate-racial-discrimination-au-on-george-floyd-murder/"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UNHC</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">
and UN sessions) as a result of not only <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">how and why</span></i> George
Floyd was killed, but also his death turned an </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/2/international-reaction-to-george-floyd-killing" title="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/2/international-reaction-to-george-floyd-killing"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">international
spotlight</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> on present day U.S. racial challenges.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">This world attention on America's social
justice and racial issues had not happened in such a global way since the </span><a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/birmingham-erupted-chaos-1963-battle-civil-rights-exploded-south-article-1.1071793" title="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/birmingham-erupted-chaos-1963-battle-civil-rights-exploded-south-article-1.1071793"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">beatings,
dog attacks and water-cannoning</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> of peaceful
black protesters in the South during the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement#Birmingham_campaign,_1963" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement#Birmingham_campaign,_1963"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1960
civil rights movement</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">. Summer 2020 protests
also spurred revisiting of other recent past </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52905408" title="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52905408"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">police
killings of African Americans</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> such as </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/25/us/breonna-taylor-shooting-brett-hankison-trial-pushed-back/index.html" title="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/25/us/breonna-taylor-shooting-brett-hankison-trial-pushed-back/index.html"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Breonna
Taylor</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> (2020), whose case had previously
languished; Atlanta's </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-s-death-after-police-shooting-outside-wendy-s-atlanta-n1231006" title="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-s-death-after-police-shooting-outside-wendy-s-atlanta-n1231006"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rayshard
Brooks</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> and </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-man-shot-dead-while-jogging-southeast-georgia-two-months-n1196621" title="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-man-shot-dead-while-jogging-southeast-georgia-two-months-n1196621"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ahmaud
Abery</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> (2020); and, currently </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/us/daunte-wright-minnesota-shooting-tuesday/index.html" title="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/us/daunte-wright-minnesota-shooting-tuesday/index.html"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Daunte
Wright</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/989342784/16-year-old-black-girl-who-called-for-help-fatally-shot-by-police-ohio-family-sa" title="https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/989342784/16-year-old-black-girl-who-called-for-help-fatally-shot-by-police-ohio-family-sa"><span style="color: #10579f;">Ma'Khia Bryant</span></a> (2021). </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52905408" title="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52905408"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earlier
high-profile cases</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> from Alton Sterling (2016), Walter Scott
(2015), and Eric Garner to Michael Brown and Tamir Rice (2014) – have all
underscored the gravity and need for different policing, reform and
transparency.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><u>U.S. Policing: A Human Rights Issue:</u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On one hand America wants to return as the
global leader on democracy, human rights and providing voice for the voiceless
-- be they suffering at the hands of violent extremists, kidnappers or military
conflicts from </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-12-15/factbox-the-violence-and-insecurity-affecting-nigeria" title="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-12-15/factbox-the-violence-and-insecurity-affecting-nigeria"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nigeria</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.voanews.com/africa/whats-happening-mozambiques-violent-north-its-complicated" title="https://www.voanews.com/africa/whats-happening-mozambiques-violent-north-its-complicated"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mozambique</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/18/the-war-in-tigray-is-a-fight-over-ethiopias-past-and-future/" title="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/18/the-war-in-tigray-is-a-fight-over-ethiopias-past-and-future/"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ethiopia</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/al-shabaab" title="https://www.theguardian.com/world/al-shabaab"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Somalia</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/27/south-sudan-at-risk-of-large-scale-conflict-un-report" title="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/27/south-sudan-at-risk-of-large-scale-conflict-un-report"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">South
Sudan</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Syrian-Civil-War" title="https://www.britannica.com/event/Syrian-Civil-War"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Syria</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423" title="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yemen</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to
biases and violence against women, LGTBQ and discriminatory mistreatment of
ethnic groups from </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/23/myanmar-is-still-committing-genocide-against-rohingya-says-rights-group" title="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/23/myanmar-is-still-committing-genocide-against-rohingya-says-rights-group"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Myanmar's
Rohingya</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-repression-uyghurs-xinjiang?gclid=CjwKCAjw1uiEBhBzEiwAO9B_HQhvqk1j7uQHf4mHrSxomQ37wigHRjO2Ksx6qIRGokJrLSEzsf2ptBoCOw8QAvD_BwE" title="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-repression-uyghurs-xinjiang?gclid=CjwKCAjw1uiEBhBzEiwAO9B_HQhvqk1j7uQHf4mHrSxomQ37wigHRjO2Ksx6qIRGokJrLSEzsf2ptBoCOw8QAvD_BwE"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Uighurs
of China</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2021/02/16/mass-atrocities-including-the-use-of-rape-and-sexual-violence-in-the-tigray-region-of-ethiopia/?sh=49d92aad53d3" title="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2021/02/16/mass-atrocities-including-the-use-of-rape-and-sexual-violence-in-the-tigray-region-of-ethiopia/?sh=49d92aad53d3"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ethiopia's
Tigray</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">The U.S. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">bona fides</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> to
both regain and continue being an international leading voice on global human
rights is also going to be viewed in the context of our own progress on social
justice reform and inequalities against people of color. We cannot be a human
rights and social sector reform advocate abroad if our nation is not in better
shape than it is today on these issues at home, and it is not in good shape –
the tensions, protests, and continued police shootings demonstrate this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d3xIFZvH-YU/YKfkBfMgHYI/AAAAAAAAHmk/5vEUOo7KSmUhvrrcfHVXO1ZR5DUaB_GDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Sanders%2BArticle-Stock%2BImage%2BUSA%2BPeople%2BMap.png.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="235" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d3xIFZvH-YU/YKfkBfMgHYI/AAAAAAAAHmk/5vEUOo7KSmUhvrrcfHVXO1ZR5DUaB_GDgCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h235/Sanders%2BArticle-Stock%2BImage%2BUSA%2BPeople%2BMap.png.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Shutterstock</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: left;">Reform and fairness in policing (called
"human rights issues" anywhere else in the world) remains front and
center as arguably one of America's most pressing social challenges,
(immigration and upticks in attacks on Asian and Muslim Americans included).
But since George Floyd's killing, there has been very little systematic, clear action
(outside of the conviction of </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56818766" style="text-align: left;" title="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56818766"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Derek
Chauvin</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: left;">) on these issues, including not moving
forward on such as things as the </span><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/george_floyd_jpa_2021_fact_sheet_.pdf?utm_campaign=5874-519" style="text-align: left;" title="https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/george_floyd_jpa_2021_fact_sheet_.pdf?utm_campaign=5874-519"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in; text-decoration-line: none;">George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
(GFJIP)</span></i><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: left;"> currently being </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1280/text" style="text-align: left;" title="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1280/text"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">debated
in the U.S. Congress</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: left;"> as well as other changes at local and
state levels.</span></div></div><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">Some of the debates could be aided by
determining where differences in perceptions on these issues match up, or not,
with objective data. Objective data can take </span><i style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">politics</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> and </span><i style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">perception </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">out of the mix by providing information
from polling on what people are actually thinking, saying, and feeling.
Research data can be helpful in educating all of us as to where we should end
up as a nation on these very difficult human rights, racial, social justice and
police reform issues. Let's start with looking at polling data associated with
some of the most challenges issues at the top of the reform list – </span><i style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">"policing and defunding the police."</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><a name="_Hlk72428831"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><u>Policing:</u></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk72428831;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
recent poll from </span></span><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gallup-center-on-black-voices-makes-a-100-year-commitment-to-report-on-the-black-experience-in-america-301093266.html" title="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gallup-center-on-black-voices-makes-a-100-year-commitment-to-report-on-the-black-experience-in-america-301093266.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk72428831;"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gallup's Center on Black Voices</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk72428831;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, (launched July 15, 2020, just months after
Mr. Floyd's death), showed that 67% of all U.S. adults (combining all groups)
want current levels of police presence in their communities to remain the same.
Within groups, the breakdowns were as follows: </span></span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-retain-local-presence.aspx" title="https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-retain-local-presence.aspx"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk72428831;"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">61% of African Americans and 71% of white
Americans</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk72428831;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> want
police levels in their neighborhoods to remain the same. While data from this
same poll showed that only 19% of Black Americans and 12% of White Americans wanted <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">less </span></i>police presence in their communities.
Further, Hispanic American responses, in the same research, were also high with
59% wanting the same level of police presence, and only 17% preferring less
police presence. Asian Americans also scored high at 69%. It will be left to
you to determine if <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">your perceptions</span></i> on
these elements of policing matchup or differ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk72428831;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rp152ugCBIQ/YKfhBzRbzxI/AAAAAAAAHmU/81ETotKvcfcM4OVGOiV_eK5gxWnKPlBGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/shutterstock_594853061.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="205" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rp152ugCBIQ/YKfhBzRbzxI/AAAAAAAAHmU/81ETotKvcfcM4OVGOiV_eK5gxWnKPlBGwCLcBGAsYHQ/w392-h205/shutterstock_594853061.jpg" width="392" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Shutterstock</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt; text-align: left;"><i>'We
cannot be a human rights and social sector reform advocate abroad if our nation
is not in better shape than it is today on these issues at home, and it is not
in good shape – the tensions, protests, and continued police shootings
demonstrate this.' – Robin R. Sanders</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">Attendant to the issues of policing are the
questions around the phrase <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">defunding the police. </span></i>This
can mean different things to different people -- from directing funds toward
mental health and social services to the city of </span><a href="https://time.com/5876318/police-reform-america/" title="https://time.com/5876318/police-reform-america/"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Minneapolis</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">'
model (where George Floyd was killed), which voted to find a new paradigm for
its police department. The percentage responses above could help inform how
many Americans feel on this key attendant issue.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><u>Police Reform & Changing Police Practices:</u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On actual police reform, the Center's data
also revealed that the majority of Americans agree that reform is needed,
particularly at the community level. However, differences arise over type and
level of reforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/315962/americans-say-policing-needs-major-changes.aspx" title="https://news.gallup.com/poll/315962/americans-say-policing-needs-major-changes.aspx"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Center's graph shows</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> at least 58% of Americans agree
"major change [reform] is needed," with only 36% saying minor changes
are needed. Here it is likely that perceptions and data are more aligned given
that the actual breakdown between groups on reform indicates that the desire
among African Americans is 88%, among Asian Americans 83%, for Hispanics 63%,
and 51% for white Americans. There is an additional key data marker on this
issue -- age differential. The majority of Americans in the 18-34 age group
polled higher on wanting reform (81%), with those 50-60 years, and 65 and older
polling respectively at 43% and 46%.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">Also, overall, 98% of Americans support
developing "change management practices" that tracks police officers
with records and histories of abuses, so they are "not allowed to
serve." The breakdown is as follows: Black Americans 92%, Hispanics 87%,
and whites 81% in support of this viewpoint. Furthermore, 76% of Americans want
"change management practices so officer abuses are punished." (See
full report - </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/315962/americans-say-policing-needs-major-changes.aspx" title="https://news.gallup.com/poll/315962/americans-say-policing-needs-major-changes.aspx"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most
Americans Say Policing Needs 'Major Changes' - gallup.com</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><u>Black-White Race Relations – Perceptions
Appear to Match Data:</u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Social justice and police reform are connected
to race relations in America today. In </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/04/09/how-americans-see-the-state-of-race-relations/" title="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/04/09/how-americans-see-the-state-of-race-relations/"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pew's
2019 research</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, (pre-George Floyd) its data graphs showed
that 58% of Americans said that race relations "were generally bad,"
with African Americans expressing high levels at 71%, and whites at 56%.
Furthermore, Pew's data revealed that it is more "common" today for
people to express racially insensitive views, even if "these views,"
are not "necessarily more acceptable."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 9.0pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 9pt 0in 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 9.0pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 9pt 0in 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EYtLx38OBxY/YKfgheb0kpI/AAAAAAAAHmI/SVRwT66VgYAbSc79bmsRorXem89C2tUxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/Gallup%2BGraph%2Bon%2BBlack-White%2BRelations.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="720" height="357" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EYtLx38OBxY/YKfgheb0kpI/AAAAAAAAHmI/SVRwT66VgYAbSc79bmsRorXem89C2tUxgCLcBGAsYHQ/w567-h357/Gallup%2BGraph%2Bon%2BBlack-White%2BRelations.png" width="567" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 9.0pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 9pt 0in 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://news.gallup.com/322325/about-measuring-black-voices.aspx" title="https://news.gallup.com/322325/about-measuring-black-voices.aspx"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gallup
Center on Black Voices</span></i></a><i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;">Relations
Between White and Black Americans</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 9.0pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 9pt 0in 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 9.0pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 9pt 0in 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 9.0pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 9pt 0in 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">Pew's polling also highlights that this
sentiment was slightly higher among </span><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/04/09/how-americans-see-the-state-of-race-relations/#across-racial-and-ethnic-groups-similar-shares-say-they-hear-racist-or-racially-insensitive-comments-from-friends-or-family" title="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/04/09/how-americans-see-the-state-of-race-relations/#across-racial-and-ethnic-groups-similar-shares-say-they-hear-racist-or-racially-insensitive-comments-from-friends-or-family"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">minorities
in America</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;"> than for whites (African Americans 76%,
Hispanics 75%, and whites 60%). In addition, when asked about </span><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/04/09/views-of-racial-inequality/" title="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/04/09/views-of-racial-inequality/"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">racial
inequality in America</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">, of the people
polled, "half or more said being poor, Muslim, black, or Hispanic puts
people at a disadvantage in our [American] society."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt;">Meanwhile, the Center for Black Voices data,
which includes Gallup's research from nearly two decades (2001-2020), shows
from 2007-early 2013 that 28-30% of Americans thought black-white relations
"were somewhat bad," whereas in 2020, 55% of Americans are feeling
this way as can be seen on the embedded Gallup chart on "Relations Between
White and Black Americans, 2001-2020."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><u>Including Data Can Help:</u></span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus, as we approach these huge social justice
anniversaries in the coming weeks (year passing of Floyd and Black Tulsa
Massacre's 100</span><sup><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">th</span></sup><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> anniversary), on
top of </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/" title="https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/"><span style="color: #10579f; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">62
African Americans</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> out of the 292 people killed by police
since the beginning of 2021, it is important to underscore the importance data
can play in helping us achieve much-needed change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It will continually be harder for America to
overcome social unrest, discord, or be a model for international human rights
(especially when pointing out faults of other nations) if we cannot come to
terms with these social justice issues at home and changing the trajectory of
some of these negative data trends on black-white race relations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0in;">Note: See </span></i><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/" title="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #10579f; padding: 0in;">Pew Research Center's</span></i></a><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0in;"> and </span></i><a href="https://news.gallup.com/322325/about-measuring-black-voices.aspx" title="https://news.gallup.com/322325/about-measuring-black-voices.aspx"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #10579f; padding: 0in;">Gallup's
Center for Black Voices</span></i></a></span><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> websites and articles for
more on their research on these key social justice, human rights, police reform
in the U.S. and on other issues. The Center for Black Voices is a 100-year commitment
by Gallup to listen and report on the Black Experience in America. </span></span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: small;">Article first appeared in <a href="Human Rights of U.S. Policing A Year After George Floyd: What the Data Tells Us">Allafrica.com</a></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A FEEEDS Blogspot</span></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-88588691075116381252021-05-21T17:24:00.000+01:002021-05-21T17:24:06.371+01:00Dr. Sanders on Nigeria's ChannelsTV: On Africom & Chad's Current Political and Security Instability<p> <strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-style: solid;">Dr. Sanders' interview on Nigeria's Channels TV "Diplomatic Channel," on Nigeria's request for the U.S. Africa Command to relocate all its personnel and resources to the African Continent. </span></strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-style: solid;">The interview also addressed the security and political instability in Chad, and the growing militant insurgencies in the Africa Region. See the interview at this link: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/jmtslktvBoU&source=gmail&ust=1621697755429000&usg=AFQjCNHX05PF0jBCBF6jZYYGb_ag7bXy2A" href="https://youtu.be/jmtslktvBoU" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/<wbr></wbr>jmtslktvBoU</a> </span></strong></p><p><b style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><i>A FEEEDS Blogspot</i></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-55037770582016274722021-03-31T17:58:00.003+01:002021-04-21T20:06:47.094+01:00A Different Lens on ESGs: Value of Synergies with the SDGs<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Article first appear in allafrica.com: <span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="0" href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fallafrica.com%2Fstories%2F202103180830.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cba338d971b784644f2ff08d8ea2313f1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637516783661534808%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=3qK3RcJ%2FY%2BnetWG3hh9GoGze911VZdOUgFQeVMjTjnU%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://allafrica.com/stories/202103180830.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="p8e/pLmHyllwKcXsyX08FlxjB+Ak8amKo7N4PKDXaeRppwdGAyuTBPoOhwUwPv/S2Du5CeUwgIYExYQzGev3MIOsqxnnp7EeVhK8Ii2/EAJeG7OaOajFJW4l/t427E89jkZDfnubDliszSyE2jf/8ibL9bu/c516yJL5vNWSfJA=" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Protected by Outlook: https://allafrica.com/stories/202103180830.html. Click or tap to follow the link.">Environment, Social & Governance (<span class="markkkojuz1j3" color="inherit" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ESG</span>) Business Pillars - Synergies with the UN SDGs</a> - </span><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">By Dr.
Robin Renee Sanders, CEO-FEEEDS</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the last two decades, the framework
known as </span><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-and-governance-esg-criteria.asp"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Environment, Social and Governance</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> (ESGs) has gained prominence as a
basis for measuring a company’s efforts toward sustainability, socially responsibility
(values), and acceptability as a set of metrics to gauge operations, investment,
shareholder decisions, and inclusion in capital market listings. ESG pillars first
began to take shape in 2004-2005, stemming from thought-provoking reports like
the “</span><a href="https://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/events/2004/stocks/who_cares_wins_global_compact_2004.pdf"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Who Cares Wins,”</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> by <span style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); color: #333333;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivo-knoepfel/?originalSubdomain=ch"><span style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ivo Knoepfel</span></a><span style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> connecting
financial markets to a changing world, and advocacy by the late UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan encouraging CEOs of financial institutions to view ESGs as
having a positive impact on capital markets. These efforts led to such important related programs as the New York
Stock Exchange’s </span><a href="about:blank" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2006 Principles for Responsible
Investment (PRI)</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">,</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">and the </span><a href="about:blank" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative (SSEI)</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7DiN4whTNyo/YGSkmyVvnLI/AAAAAAAAHgk/Cv5zm0iADHI9hD3wcfxG0WnNEQ1LEUacgCLcBGAsYHQ/s586/Sustainability%2Bpicture%2Bfor%2BESG%2Barticle.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="586" height="202" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7DiN4whTNyo/YGSkmyVvnLI/AAAAAAAAHgk/Cv5zm0iADHI9hD3wcfxG0WnNEQ1LEUacgCLcBGAsYHQ/w270-h202/Sustainability%2Bpicture%2Bfor%2BESG%2Barticle.jpg" width="270" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoCaption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit: Michelle Patrick Photography,LLC</span><b> </b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Fast forward to today. The recognition, and visibility of ESGs,
as well as the importance of the sustainability elements therein, have been
expounded on extensively in a variety of documents from the </span><a href="https://www.unglobalcompact.org/participation/report/cop/create-and-submit/active/441709"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">UN Global Compact</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, business advisory reports (e.g.<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/governance-insights-center/library/esg-corporate-directors-guide.html"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">PWC</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/risk/articles/cfo-esg-sustainability-reporting.html"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Deloitte)</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, articles </span><a href="about:blank"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">(Forbes</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">)</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, fora such as </span><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/how-corporate-boards-can-lead-on-esg/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">World Economic Forum ESG</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> meetings, and the </span><a href="https://datatopics.worldbank.org/esg/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">World Bank</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> including its </span><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2019/10/29/world-bank-launches-sovereign-esg-data-portal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">new ESG portal</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The ESGs have
grown to be more or less reflective of certain actions<span style="color: red;"> </span>under
each of the <i>E, S & G Pillars, </i>which </span><a href="http://blogitrrs.blogspot.com/p/feeeds.html"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">FEEEDS</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> sees as being synergistically connected to the UN SDGs. This connecting
allows for the E, S & G Pillars to be both measurable, and also thematic
related to the SDGs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Environment</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">: For FEEEDS, this is the<span style="color: #7030a0;"> <i>Climate Change Thematic Pillar</i></span>, as it
incorporates many of the key climate change sub issues such as waste management,
reduction in pollution and carbon emissions, incorporating renewables, and natural
resource protection that companies are addressing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Social:</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> We view as the<span style="color: #7030a0;"> <i>Humankind or Human Protection Thematic Pillar</i></span>,
given this is where the treatment of personnel, relationships with outside
stakeholders, communities, and consumers come in, including issues of human capital,
good labor practices, and product liability. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Governance:</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> Is the <i><span style="color: #7030a0;">Inward-Looking
Thematic Pillar</span></i>,<span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span>meaning<span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span>how well a company is managing itself from its
governing board (including board diversity), to transparency on financials,
taxes, investments, risks and ethics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Given the
importance of the ESG Pillars to businesses and organizations today, adding a
thematic lens to the measurable metrics can be useful. Moreover, it helps
connect ESGs synergistically with the globally-agreed upon </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN
SDGs</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">),</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> running from 2015-2030, which seeks to improve the overall well-being of
mankind. Historically, this ESG-SDG discussion makes even more sense if one thinks
back to the early 2000s when the ESGs were being bandied about. This was just
after the creation of the </span><a href="https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sdgoverview/mdg_goals.html"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2000-2015 UN Millennium Development
Goals</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> the first global iteration of measuring mankind’s well-being -- a
precursor to the current SDGs.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AYovTynr7Ng/YGSlM6ceJUI/AAAAAAAAHgs/bNaKFM4DXDYr3Z0Gn9gUIN7P-9Di32RRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s550/SDG%2Bpic%2Bfor%2BESG%2Barticle.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="523" height="252" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AYovTynr7Ng/YGSlM6ceJUI/AAAAAAAAHgs/bNaKFM4DXDYr3Z0Gn9gUIN7P-9Di32RRgCLcBGAsYHQ/w240-h252/SDG%2Bpic%2Bfor%2BESG%2Barticle.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoCaption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit: Елена Верхотурова</span><b> </b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The SDGs, with its </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">17 goals</span></a><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">(and 169
subsections) encourages and measures a country’s (and by extension the world’s)
concerted efforts to improving mankind’s well-being by addressing extreme
poverty, development shortcomings in education</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, food security, health and joblessness,
particularly for women and children. The SDGs and their progress are analyzed
by a wide variety of organizations. This includes the </span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2020/finding-transformative-pathways-in-turbulent-times/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">UN SDG 2020 Report</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> & </span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2020/progress-chart-2020.pdf"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Progress Tracker</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">,</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">the latter </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">highlighting COVID’s role in unfortunately pushing 71 million
people back into poverty, the largest poverty rise since 1998; Gallup World
Poll, tracking SDG progress on </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/193892/gallup-helps-track-progress-hunger-financial-inclusion.aspx"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">food insecurity</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> (790 million people facing hunger), </span><a href="https://www.lr.org/en-us/insights/articles/why-the-first-ever-world-risk-poll-will-make-organisations-safer/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">labor & safety practices</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><a href="https://www.gallup.com/analytics/258293/world-bank-global-findex.aspx"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">financial inclusion</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">;</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> the </span><a href="https://www.who.int/health-topics/sustainable-development-goals#tab=tab_1"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">World Health Organization</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, monitoring progress on both core
and attendant </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/9789240005105-eng%2520(1).pdf"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">health-related SDGs</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">; the World Bank’s </span><a href="https://sdg.iisd.org/news/world-bank-shows-sdg-data-trends-with-interactive-atlas/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">SDG Atlas Tracker</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, on energy and hunger; and the
Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s </span><a href="https://www.sdgindex.org/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">SDG Index</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">So, what is
the argument on linking ESGs synergistically with <i>relevant thematic </i>SDGs?
And, would that be for all 17 goals? The answer is no. But consideration should be made toward those
SDGs that are complementary to a business and its sector(s). Where a company
can thematically link (directly or indirectly), it should. By doing so, the
SDGs provide a way forward for a company to plug into the “greater good” themes
agreed upon by 193 countries, contributing to improved optics, perceptions and
by extension, positive metrics and visibility on its ESG framework.<span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Linking up
ESGs to appropriate SDGs shouldn’t be that hard to do. The bigger value-addition
is, by doing so, we all speak with one “improving humanity voice” as we work across
business and development sectors (as opposed to stove piped). Moreover, the SDG
link can provide the twofold benefit to companies of: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">shining
an international (or country-level) light on a business’ positive actions; and,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">serving
as touchstones to (directly or indirectly) aid or assist boards and investors evaluate
or further appreciate the outcomes of their ESG efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In analyzing
the 17 SDG goals, there are 10, of the 17, which FEEEDS views with direct
thematic synergy to the ESGs, and seven, which could be viewed as indirect. The
blend, in the end, is up to companies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The 10
SDGs with Direct ESG Synergies: <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The 10 SDG goals,
we see with <i>direct thematic </i>connections to the ESGs fall mostly under <i>Environment
and Social. </i>They include<b><i>, SDGs 5-9, 12-15, and 17</i></b>. Granted, many
businesses are focused already on these in internal operations, therefore
linkages should be easy. Below highlights which SDG goal make sense under the
ESG Pillars:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Under the <i>Environment
(or Climate Change) </i>Pillar, <b><i>SDGs 6-7, 9, and 12-15 </i></b>since
these SDGs primarily focus on climate change issues of water, waste management and
sustainable energy; to climate smart </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">manufacturing, industrialization, production
patterns and agricultural practices; to protecting land and ocean biodiversity
systems.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r5_7RD65eQc/YGSlmqX0JfI/AAAAAAAAHg0/hH7Mg55BkkY7h_6GCmM6AkYzZg0kVsdfACLcBGAsYHQ/s877/Lagos-Songhai%2Bpic%2Bfor%2BESG%2Barticle.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="877" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r5_7RD65eQc/YGSlmqX0JfI/AAAAAAAAHg0/hH7Mg55BkkY7h_6GCmM6AkYzZg0kVsdfACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Lagos-Songhai%2Bpic%2Bfor%2BESG%2Barticle.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoCaption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit: Dr. Robin Sanders/CEO-FEEEDS</span><b> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Under the <i>Social (or the Humankind) </i>Pillar, <b><i>SDG
5, 8, and 17 </i></b>since these SDGs focus on key elements of equality,
empowerment, productive employment and partnerships. But can also apply to a
company’s internal operations such as human capital and ensuring living wages;
to productive, descent work and healthcare for employees; to safe and humane working
conditions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">SDG 17,</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> on strengthening </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/globalpartnerships/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Global Partnerships for Sustainable
Development</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, further
underscores FEEEDS’ core argument for the ESG-SDG synergy discussion. Businesses
which see this interconnectedness will likely benefit with quality relationships
with outside stakeholders, contribute differently to communities where they operate,
and improve partnerships or corporate social responsibility projects. These
changes can help reduce risks factors to bottom lines, which recent and
historic events continually show can lead to financial loss and instability costing
billions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Under the <i>Governance
(or Inward-Looking) </i>Pillar <b><i>SDGs 5 and 8 </i></b>are also applicable. Although
this pillar tends to be focused on a company’s internal governance, regulations
and transparency, there is still synergy with these SDGs. The connections are
on diversity and equality -- not only in the board room, but also with
executive pay, investment dollars in minority and small businesses, and shares
in ownership. Studies show less reluctance today accepting female managers than
</span><a href="https://www.managersorbit.com/male-vs-female-boss-9-reasons-men-women-prefer-male-bosses/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">five years ago</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, in places like Canada (</span><a href="https://www.randstad.ca/employers/workplace-insights/women-in-the-workplace/workmonitor-report-reveals-employees-prefer-male-managers-despite-belief-gender-gap-is-narrowing/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Randstad</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">), and as shown in Gallup’s recent polling
in </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/330518/latin-america-ready-women-lead.aspx"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Latin America</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/330524/eastern-europe-women-already-leading-ready.aspx"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Eastern Europe</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, and the </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/222425/americans-no-longer-prefer-male-boss-female-boss.aspx"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">U.S</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">. Whereas, in the 21 African countries polled, the
region’s </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/330521/sub-saharan-africa-give-education-opportunities-women.aspx"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">reluctance level toward women managers</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> is still high (a median of 47% of
the population prefer men, while a median of 34% said they prefer woman). Companies
which systematically address this data point in their governance pillar –
increasing the number of female managers – would go a long way in synergistically
advancing SDG goal 5, while providing productive and descent work helps goal 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Seven
SDGs with Indirect ESG Synergies:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The seven SDGs where a company’s good
ESG report card can be helped indirectly, include <b><i>SDG goals 1-4, 10-11,
and 16</i></b> given these are the larger <i>greater good</i> SDGs (ending all
poverty, hunger, and overall improving the human condition). Certainly, good
ESG stewardship will have an attendant contribution to these global SDGs as
companies uplift the lives of their employees with good practices. All of which can be achieved through climate-smart behavior, providing good healthcare and life long learning opportunities, and ensuring equitable pay, diversity and gender equality from the board room through to the assembly line and agricultural fields -- all very synergistic to these seven SDGs.</span></p><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><i>Article was also posted on Council of Foreign Relations blog site at: </i><a href="https://www.cfr.org/member/wall/post/environment-social-governance-esg-business-pillars-synergies-un-sdgs?utm_source=memberdigest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MemberWallDigest_21April2021&utm_term=MemberWallDigest">Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) Business Pillars - Synergies with the UN SDGs | Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org)</a></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"> </span><i>A FEEEDS Series Blogspot</i></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249683602516198577.post-1029293963359458582021-03-10T00:09:00.004+01:002021-03-13T00:30:12.424+01:00Sanders to speak at Georgetown's Annual Africa Business Conference<p>Dr. Sanders, as CEO FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative, will speak at Georgetown's annual Africa Business Conference on Africa's future role as a global trade leader, particularly with the Africa Free Trade Agreement (AfCTA), now launched since January 1, 2021. This is the Ambassador's second time speaking at this prestigious conference of Africa institutional leaders, scholars, and students sharing their thoughts on Africa's business future. 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