{"id":13013,"date":"2012-07-31T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/rpt-security-in-focus-as-clinton-heads-to-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T13:50:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:50:28","slug":"rpt-security-in-focus-as-clinton-heads-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rpt-security-in-focus-as-clinton-heads-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"RPT-Security in focus as Clinton heads to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Repeats with no change)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Clinton to be top U.S. official to visit South Sudan<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* She will pay her respects to Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.S. increasingly focusing on African security ties<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Andrew Quinn<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, July 31 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Secretary of State<br \/>\nHillary Clinton departs this week on a trip that will take her<br \/>\nboth to Africa&#8217;s newest nation, South Sudan, and on a visit to<br \/>\nthe continent&#8217;s elder statesman, 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon<br \/>\nNelson Mandela.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Clinton&#8217;s public focus will be on Africa&#8217;s democratic<br \/>\nachievements and economic potential, the trip also underscores<br \/>\nU.S. security ties in the face of an array of growing threats<br \/>\n&#8211;from Islamist extremists to narcotics cartels.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The security threats are becoming much more visible and in<br \/>\nsome ways dangerous than they were before,&#8221; said Jennifer Cooke,<br \/>\nthe head of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and<br \/>\nInternational Studies in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are big global issues on the table, and the U.S. does<br \/>\nnot have the kind of finances available to mount splashy new<br \/>\neconomic initiatives in Africa.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Repeats with no change) * Clinton to be top U.S. official to visit South Sudan * She will pay her respects to Nelson Mandela * U.S. increasingly focusing on African security ties By Andrew Quinn WASHINGTON, July 31 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton departs this week on a trip that will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}