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Reed Kramer’s Biography

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Reed Kramer is co-founder and CEO of AllAfrica Global Media, the leading online source for information about Africa, which operates the popular web site allAfrica.com. AllAfrica aggregates content from African publishers and other sources and reaches a large growing global audience of policymakers, executives, analysts, media professionals, scholars and activists. Distribution through commercial services and social media reaches millions more. In the early days of the web, he managed the 1995 …

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Former CIA Analyst Now Top U.S. Africa Official at State; Dealmaking Dominates as Conflic...

Former CIA Analyst Now Top U.S. Africa Official at State; Dealmaking Dominates as Conflic...

The Africa Bureau at the State Department has a new top official, Nick Checker. Unlike his recent predecessor…

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Sudan Diplomacy Snarled as UAE Arms Fuel Genocidal Brutality in Darfur

Sudan Diplomacy Snarled as UAE Arms Fuel Genocidal Brutality in Darfur

"No one can say they didn't know."

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Trump Will Change U.S.-Africa Ties - How Much and How Fast?

Trump Will Change U.S.-Africa Ties - How Much and How Fast?

"Africa can expect substantial changes from the United States over the next four years," Rama Yade, director …

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Lifetime Achievement Awards for Trailblazing Couple in African Journalism - Tami Hultman and Reed...

Lifetime Achievement Awards for Trailblazing Couple in African Journalism - Tami Hultman and Reed...

Two co-founders of AllAfrica Global Media - Dr. Tami Hultman and Reed Kramer - were honored with Lifetime Ach…

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Remembering the Legacy of Malaria-Fighting Trailblazer Kent Campbell

Remembering the Legacy of Malaria-Fighting Trailblazer Kent Campbell

Opinion - Carlos 'Kent' Campbell, a respected public health physician and global health champion who died on …

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Why to Do Business Here - Mauritius Financial Services Minister

Why to Do Business Here - Mauritius Financial Services Minister

Interview - Mauritius, the Indian Ocean island-nation located off the southeast coast of continental Africa -…

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Africa: Republican Intelligence Specialist Nominated Head Africa at State Department Original

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Frank W. Garcia Jr., a veteran Republican Congressional aide with limited Africa experience, has been nominated by President Trump to lead the Africa Bureau at the State Department. Since Trump's Inauguration a little over a year ago, three successive officials have been in charge of the Bureau, which manages U.S. relations with 49 sub-Saharan countries. The latest is Nick Checkers, a former CIA analyst who took over as Senior Bureau Official on January 6.
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Former CIA analyst now top US Africa official at State Department

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By Reed Kramer
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Washington, DC - The Africa Bureau at the State Department has a new top official, Nick Checker. Unlike his recent predecessors who were career diplomats, he has been at State for only four months, having served for the previous decade as a military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He spent part of 2025 working in the White House as deputy executive secretary on the National Security Council (NSC) staff.
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Awards

Lifetime Achievement in Media

2001 - Media

The Special Recognition was conferred by the Africa-America Institute, a non-profit, multi-racial, multi-ethnic organization headquartered in New York whose mission is to promote African development, primarily through education and training. In selecting Kramer and Hultman, AAI President Mora McLean noted the exemplary and often unheralded work of the husband and wife team, who have been making the case for increased media coverage of Africa for more than 30 years.

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