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Tuesday Map: Clinton’s Africa trip by country and message

The Christian Science Monitor put together this interesting look at the messages Hillary Clinton focused on in each of her stops on her African tour. It accompanies a useful stop-by-stop debrief of the trip by Tracey Samuelson.     Will any of the visited countries respond to Clinton’s overtures? McClatchy’s Shashank Bengali highlights that Kenya’s ...

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The Christian Science Monitor put together this interesting look at the messages Hillary Clinton focused on in each of her stops on her African tour. It accompanies a useful stop-by-stop debrief of the trip by Tracey Samuelson.     Will any of the visited countries respond to Clinton's overtures? McClatchy's Shashank Bengali highlights that Kenya's government decided to ink a new $1.7 million contract with a U.S. PR firm to improve its image in the United States. Style, it seems, is substance.    Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor put together this interesting look at the messages Hillary Clinton focused on in each of her stops on her African tour. It accompanies a useful stop-by-stop debrief of the trip by Tracey Samuelson.
 
 
Will any of the visited countries respond to Clinton’s overtures? McClatchy’s Shashank Bengali highlights that Kenya’s government decided to ink a new $1.7 million contract with a U.S. PR firm to improve its image in the United States. Style, it seems, is substance. 
 
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<p> Michael Wilkerson, a journalist and former Fulbright researcher in Uganda, is a graduate student in politics at Oxford University, where he is a Marshall Scholar. </p>
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