Africa: U.S. Secretary of State Delivers Address on Africa Ahead of Five-Nation Visit

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The text of an address by United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, at George Mason University, Virginia, ahead of his visit to Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Chad and Djibouti. The address is followed by a question-and-answer session.

Thank you so much, Dr. Cabrera, for the warm welcome. And it is a pleasure to be here at George Mason, and I'm pleased always to meet a Fulbright alum, as well as a fellow engineer. And we appreciate George Mason University hosting the African and African American Studies program here and for the work it does on many, many important topics that we'll be discussing this morning.

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