Thank you so much chairman, smith, Ranking Members for organizing this hearing and for inviting me. Im a researcher and officer of Political Science at columbia university. Over the past two years dip mats, politicians have focused mostly on the political crisis around general elections and on the struggle for power. Were so preoccupied with the up coming elections that were diverting our attention awae from the many other issues that are causing violence in congo. And were wasting the opportunity to tackle these issues. Based on peace building and several years of working in congo, i believe and i will show you in my state, theres a better way to help revise these conflicts. There are many other caws of violence beyond the electoral political issue. And by acknowledging democracy and peace do not always go together. The two most important measures congress can take are to increase the United States support to peace building and to put local actors in the drivers seat. The delay of Hol
This partnership has been reaffirmed during the visit of his majesty, the king, to washington last november. The morocco freetrade agreem t agreements which entered into force in 2006 eliminated taxes on 95 of trade customer and industrial goods between the two countries. This ft 8 has provided both country with great opportunity of trade and investment. For us, the u. S. Is the Third Largest trading partner of morocco, with more than 7 of its total trade. Today we have 300 u. S. Company that have established their presence in morocco and are now benefitting from this great business environment. Let me now mention few strategic sectors that have been booming in the past years in morocco. First, we have the moroccan Aerospace Cluster that is becoming among the most competitive manufacturers based in the world, with more than 100 References Companies established in less than ten years and is employing to date in morocco more than 10,000 people. Companies such as wing, alcoa, ge, have cho
Applause. We are here today to talk about north africa. North africa holds one half of the population of the arab world. Last year our exports to north africa totaled 11. 5 billion. North africa encompasses much of what draws the worlds attention today. Many of its countries have recently undergone wrenching political change. Some, actual revolution. Many wrestle with hide rydrocar one way or the other. How best to produce them while striving to find ways to be less dependent on them. All wrestle with the balance of religion and politics and of religion in politics. All the countries face the youth bulge and how best to train and educate young people so they can be productive in the 21st century, yet despite or possibly because of these challenges, each country in north africa has recently made a commitment to economic reform and defining ways to attract more investment and trade with foreign partners. There are huge challenges, as ive outlined, but there are also huge opportunities. P
By the outbreak to defer mortgage and loan repayments for up to three months. Tsb and lloyds said they would also allow a mortgage window, and banks are announcing extra support for affected businesses. And in scotland more than £3 million is being spent on a rapid scaling up of nhs facilities for video consultations. The nhs near me system is currently used for hospital outpatient appointments with consultants, but the increase in cases of covid 19 means it could soon be used for gp appointments to reduce face to face contact time. Now its time for the weather with louise lear. Hello there, early heads up, i have been looking into next week and there is a potentialfor a been looking into next week and there is a potential for a few days of dry weather in the forecast. More on that injust of dry weather in the forecast. More on that in just a moment, of dry weather in the forecast. More on that injust a moment, and its a good job as well because monday was miserable, wasnt it . A lot
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special edition of squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick and this morning i am in a suburb of omaha ham, nebraska, called la vista. Joe kernen is back at cnbc headquarters on the east coast. Our special guest this morning is Berkshire Hathaways Warren Buffett. Weve been soliciting your questions for mr. Bust over the last several days and as always, he he didnt disappoint. You have emailed, tweeted, facebooked and shared your thoughts on linkedin. Before we get to that, joe is going to give us a quick rundown of the mornings top headlines. Hey, beck. I know the sequester is hitting everybody hard, but this is your new set up there with the boxes and the usually we can splurge a little bit more. This is affecting everyone, i think. This it is. But this was a purchase. Berkshire never gave any numbers on this, but it was reported that this was a purchase of about 500 million. Whoa. But it was what we twauts the companys most recent acquisition. He s