Africa's Strategic Importance to U.S. Is Growing, Envoy Says

Washington -- A senior diplomat says her recent appointment as the first full-time U.S. envoy to the African Union (AU) highlights a growing U.S.-African partnership aimed at pursuing political stability and economic prosperity on a strategic continent ...dig more http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/May/200705141556461EJrehsiF0.9337885.html