US Mission Geneva

“This project is important not only because it offers a tangible solution to a mounting problem, but it gives hope and a sense of achievement to a community that is often overlooked because of its rural location and size.”

The United States is sending an energy trade mission to Mozambique, Tanzania, Nigeria and Ghana to look at potential investment projects with the aim of enhancing the countries’ ability to generate electric power.

Innovative ideas for managing grain supplies in Tanzania and for helping hospitals in Nigeria prepare for natural disasters won top prizes in the Apps4Africa Climate Challenge. But the competition isn’t over yet. It moves to Southern Africa starting February 1.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton completed a four-nation visit to Africa to promote democracy, good government and economic reforms, and to demonstrate a U.S. commitment to a post-conflict return to peace.

A successful Egyptian transformation to democracy will require not only political reform, but also increased economic opportunities for the Egyptian people, and the Obama administration wants to encourage private enterprise.

We must never lose sight of the reality that trade has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, expanded individual opportunity, and contributed enormously to an acceleration of economic development across our planet.

New U.S. proposals to help boost trade for least developed country (LDC) Members of the WTO, particularly African cotton-producing countries

South Sudan’s independence marks the beginning of its challenge to become a state that will offer opportunities to all of its people, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration is prepared to help the new nation reach its potential.

In advance of the 8th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today announced steps aimed at enabling Least Developed Country (LDC) members of the WTO to benefit more fully from global trade.