MODERATOR : Good afternoon to everyone from the U.S. Department of State's Africa Regional Media Hub. I would like to welcome our participants dialing in from across the continent and all around the world and thank all of you for joining this discussion. Today we are very pleased to be joined by the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, Tibor P. Nagy, Jr. Assistant Secretary will discuss his current trip to the continent, visiting the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, and Somalia.
We will begin today's call with opening remarks from Assistant Secretary Nagy, then we will turn to your questions. We will try to get to as many of them as we can during the time that we have, which is approximately 40 minutes. At any time during the call, if you would like to ask a question, you must press 1 and 0 on your phone to join the question and answer queue. If you would like to join the conversation on Twitter, please use hashtag #AFHubPress and follow us at @AssistantSecStateAF and @AfricaMediaHub. As a reminder, today's call is on the record. And with that, I will turn it over to the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, Tibor Nagy.
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