US shifting Africa strategy to ‘trade, not aid’, envoy says

JOHANNESBURG, May 15 (Reuters) – U.S. envoys in Africa will be rated on commercial deals struck, not aid spent, a senior State Department official said, touting it as the new strategy for...

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