In the Institute for Policy Studies’ new report on Obama’s first 100 days in office, Emira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at IPS, expressed concerns about the Obama administration’s Africa policy. In the report’s Africa scorecard, she gives the policy an overall rating of 6 out of 10. Woods praises Obama for enacting Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians living in the United States, preventing their forced deportation, and supporting Omar Bashir’s indictment by the International Criminal Court. She criticizes him, however, for not bringing the United States into that court by signing the Rome Treaty and “giving additional power, leverage, and resources to the International Monetary Fund, the very institution that caused the severe economic crisis in Africa and much of the world.” She calls for him to articulate a “comprehensive policy” toward Africa.