guests of our speaker at the head table and in the audience. i would like to remind you that our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as working journalists who are club members. if you hear applause and our audience, i note the members of the general public who are , it is not from a lack of journalistic objectivity. also want to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. you can follow the action on #ander using the hashtag pclunch. #npclunch. now it s time to introduce our head table guests. will standeach one briefly as their names are announced. from your right, one minute, please. from your right, retired former managing editor national geographic magazine. please hold your applause. etti.en loreng [applause] boussa founder and president of africa today which launches its operations on tuesday, august 5. i am also pleased to introduce mr. moussa as a new national press club member. a. jean-jacques bui minister of infrastructures. margaret ryan, no
stability and a minimum of order certainly is essential to security. this is what will anchor a climate in which freedom and economic and social progress will flourish. having tried to paint a picture of the security situation in central africa, one that encompasses the very notion of security that must necessarily address the challenge of the democratization and development, i would like now to go to my third and last point in this set of remarks. and here i will hone in on the expectations of africa as to its cooperation with the united states of america. ladies and gentlemen, i call for a deepening, dare i say, a re-grounding of relations between africa and the united states of america. it seems to me that africa and the usa are two continents that ignore each other rather than recognizing everything that should bring them together. it is time to change this anomalous state of affairs. and specifically to that end, i give to america five propositions. first, i invite the u
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In an effort to not leave the county without a leader, a contract for Larry Werner to be the Douglas County Manager for one year will be voted on by commissioners Thursday.