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ADNA UPDATE: 040114
Message from:  Africa Action
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ann-Louise Colgan (202) 546-7961

Africa Action Releases "Africa Policy Outlook 2004",
Launches New Website

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 (Washington, DC)  - Ahead of next week's
State of the Union address, Africa Action today released its Africa
Policy Outlook for the coming year, published by Foreign Policy in Focus
and Africa Action.  This annual publication identifies the key trends
that will drive U.S. relations with Africa in the year ahead, and
predicts the priorities likely to emerge in the policies of the Bush
Administration.

Also today, Africa Action launched its new website at
http://www.africaaction.org.  The launch of the new site sees the
addition of major new features and new original content on U.S. Africa
policy and on the Africa's Right to Health Campaign.  It follows a
three-month period of re-design and re-organization.

Africa Action's "Africa Policy Outlook 2004" contends:  "In 2004... U.S.
Africa policy will continue to be characterized by a duplicity that has
emerged as the principal hallmark of the Bush Administration approach to
the continent. On the one hand, Africa's priorities are being
marginalized and undermined by a U.S. foreign policy preoccupied with
other parts of the world. On the other hand, the Bush White House is
callously manipulating Africa, claiming to champion the continent's
needs with its compassionate conservative agenda."

Africa Action's Executive Director, Salih Booker, said today:  "In 2004,
despite the fact that two African Americans occupy both of the major
foreign policy posts in the U.S. government, Washington will not give
Africa the attention it deserves and requires."  He continued, "While
the HIV/AIDS crisis remains the most urgent global threat, the current
orientation of the Bush Administration indicates that little progress
will be made here in 2004, absent an increase in AIDS activism
concurrent with the Presidential campaign."

The full text of the Africa Policy Outlook 2004 is available on the new
Africa Action website, at http://www.africaaction.org.

The new website features resources and policy analysis on a range of key
issues and key countries; Activist Tools on Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis;
and a Newsroom with Africa Action's latest media activities and archived
press releases & reports.

The new Africa Action website also features an E-Activist Center with
options for electronic advocacy on U.S. Africa policy.  Africa Action is
working with activists across the country to put pressure on President
Bush to keep the promise made in last year's State of the Union address
to give $15 billion to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean. A set
of talking points on Bush's AIDS policies, entitled "Broken Promises and
Betrayals," is available on the new website at
http://www.africaaction.org.



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