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Officials Testify on the Sahel Region

  • Defense.gov
  • Dec. 5, 2023 | 01:16:50

Celeste Wallander, assistant secretary of defense for International Security Affairs; Molly Phee, assistant secretary at the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs; and Robert Jenkins, assistant to the administrator in the Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization at the U.S. Agency for International Development; testify about U.S. policy in the Sahel region of Africa at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.