Feingold Named U.S. Special Envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes

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Secretary of State John Kerry said that he is appointing former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold as the U.S. special envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes region.

“The suffering in the Great Lakes region of Africa and the ongoing crisis in the east part of the Democratic Republic of Congo troubles all of us greatly,” Kerry said today in making the announcement. “The stakes in this part of the world,” Kerry said, “are very significant.”