1. Jendayi Elizabeth Frazer was born on 1961 and is the former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, heading the Bureau of African Affairs.
15 Facts About Jendayi Frazer
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Jendayi Frazer was a Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College and Department of Social and Decision Sciences.
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Jendayi Frazer was assistant professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and editor of the journal Africa Today from 1993 to 1995.
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Jendayi Frazer is a specialist in African affairs and international security affairs.
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Jendayi Frazer is given credit for designing the administration's policy for ending the wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Burundi.
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Jendayi Frazer is known for statements condemning armed movements in Africa and in favor of peaceful opposition movements to bring about democratic political and social change throughout the continent.
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Jendayi Frazer's tenure as Assistant Secretary of State was a controversial one: She was considered one of the most powerful and outspoken Assistant Secretaries in the Bush Administration.
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Jendayi Frazer disputed Bolton's claim since US policy continued to recognize the EEBC decision.
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Jendayi Frazer has been accused of quietly encouraging Ethiopia's decision to militarily intervene in Somalia in late 2006, a contradiction of the administration's official position.
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On January 7,2007, Jendayi Frazer met with Somali political leaders in Nairobi, Kenya, to discuss United States support for the interim Somali government.
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Jendayi Frazer visited Ali Mohammed Ghedi and Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed to help with the national reconciliation of Somalia.
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On January 4,2008, Frazer was sent by President George W Bush to Kenya to help seek a resolution of that country's political dispute following the December 2007 presidential election, and she met with President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga.
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You saw that little American girl [Jendayi Frazer] trotting around the globe like a prostitute.
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In late August 2009, Jendayi Frazer criticized the Obama Administration's senior officials statements that they must practice "tough love" with Africans.
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Jendayi Frazer asserts that Obama should reorient his administration's policy away from patronizing notions of "tough love" to better emphasize the US's strategic interests in Africa.