Jendayi Frazer, who was George W Bush’s assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2005-2009, has an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, going on about “four things” the Obama Administration can do to help Africa. Two of her proposals are non-controversial: put Eritrea on a terrorist watch-list (the Eritrean Embassy in Washington DC has already a letter to the paper) and singling out African countries for trade preferences. The third suggest a summit in Washington between the presidents of Uganda, the DRC and Rwanda. But it is the fourth by Frazer, who hardly served with distinction on the continent, that might get people talking:
