3 African leaders cancel trip to U.S. over Ebola outbreak; Obama still plans summit   The U.S. issued a travel warning Thursday for three African countries hit by an outbreak of deadly Ebola, but the   White House   said President Obama will go forward with a summit in   Washington   next week featuring African leaders. The   State Department   issued the travel warning for   Sierra Leone ,   Liberia   and   Guinea , the three countries hit hardest by the worst Ebola outbreak in history. But   White House   press secretary Josh Earnest said Mr. Obama has no plans "at this point" to alter or cancel the summit schedule, set for Monday through Wednesday. The   White House   is billing the conference as the largest gathering of African leaders ever in   Washington , including some representatives from the nations where the contagion is spreading. Mr. ...

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The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Final Thoughts Editor’s Note: The   U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit blog series   is a collection of posts discussing efforts to strengthen ties between the United States and Africa ahead of the first continent-wide summit. On August 4, Brookings will host “The Game Has Changed: The New Landscape for Innovation and Business in Africa,” at which these themes and more will be explored by prominent experts.   Click here to register for the event . The first   U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit   is nearly upon us. Hopefully, the African leaders are already flying to Washington, D.C. with   summit strategies in hand . Leading up to next week’s summit,   Brookings experts have analyzed   the many policy facets surrounding the United States’ strategy for regional engagement. Based on   our comparison of the most recent Africa summits with the European Union, China and Japan , we recommend that the U.S. summit be designed to creat...

The Coming US-Africa Summit Abba Mahmood — Jul 31, 2014   |   4 Comments In the coming week, America’s president Barrack Obama will be hosting African heads of state and leaders in Washington, DC. Obama is the first African-American to be elected president of the United States. This is his second and final term in office and he has been able to visit only about four countries in Africa since becoming president. Thus, the US-Africa Summit this week will afford him the opportunity to interact with as many African leaders from as many countries as possible. In this regard, America is copying Japan, China, India and other emerging powers who have since institutionalized their engagements with Africa as a whole periodically. Africa has played key roles throughout history. African resources helped to build most European countries through the outright theft of these resources during colonialism. African slaves helped to build the new world, the Americas. Today, Africa is th...

  It is all about discrimination on ground of race. Institutional racism in the UK is everywhere.It is part of British culture. HSBC closes some Muslim groups' accounts Continue reading the main story Related Stories 'I got Islamic compliant mortgage' Watch HSBC bank has written to Finsbury Park Mosque and other Muslim organisations in the UK to tell them that their accounts will be closed. The reason given in some cases was that to continue providing services would be outside the bank's "risk appetite". The wife and teenage children of a man who runs a London based Islamic think tank have also been contacted. HSBC said decisions to close accounts were "absolutely not based on race or religion". "We do not discuss relationships we may or may not have with a customer, nor confirm whether an individual or business is, or has been a customer. "Discrimination against customers on grounds of race o...