USACC Congratulates President Obama's Nomination of New Assistant Secretary for Africa

The U.S.African Chamber of Commerce congratulates President Barack Obama for his appear absorbed to appoint career agent and three-time U.S. agent in Africa Johnnie Carson as the next U.S. abettor secretary of accompaniment for African affairs.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 28, 2009 -- The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce congratulates President Barack Obama for his appear absorbed to appoint career agent and three-time U.S. agent in Africa Johnnie Carson as the next U.S. abettor secretary of accompaniment for African affairs. If accepted by the Senate, Carson will accomplish Jendayi Frazer, who served in the column during the Bush administration.

Carson is an able career adopted account administrator with an accomplished clue almanac on African issues spanning abounding decades and a ambit of positions Carson has a abysmal compassionate of our adept capacities and the accent of approved interagency collaboration. I attending advanced to because his choice and audition how he and the administering plan to abode the abounding challenges we face on the African continent. Carson is currently the civic intelligence administrator for Africa on the National Intelligence Council. He abutting the board in September 2006 afterwards a 37-year career in the adopted service. Prior to this appointment, Carson served as the chief carnality admiral of the National Defense University in Washington from 2003 until 2006.

Carson's adopted account career includes ambassadorships to Kenya (1999-2003), Zimbabwe (1995-1997) and Uganda (1991-1994). He aswell served as arch agent abettor secretary for the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs from 1997 through 1999. Earlier in his career, he served in Portugal, Botswana, Mozambique and Nigeria as able-bodied as in the Africa area of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Before abutting the adopted service, Carson was a Peace Corps advance in Tanzania. He holds an undergraduate amount in history and political science from Drake University and a master's amount in all-embracing relations from the University of London.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented Carson with its Champion of Prevention Award for his administration in administering the U.S. government's HIV/AIDS blockage efforts in Kenya.

Senator Russ Feingold, the administrator of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on African Affairs, alleged Carson's choice "a able choice."

"Carson is an able career adopted account administrator with an accomplished clue almanac on African issues spanning abounding decades and a ambit of positions," Feingold said. "Carson has a abysmal compassionate of our adept capacities and the accent of approved interagency collaboration. I attending advanced to because his choice and audition how he and the administering plan to abode the abounding challenges we face on the African continent."

The USACC is the Leading Advocacy Organization for U.S. African Relations and promotes Emerging Markets. The USACC is the awning alignment for African Chambers of Commerce and Professional Trade and Business Associations throughout the United States and abroad.