Christopher Dell
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"Christopher William Dell" is a career United States Foreign Service officer who is currently serving as the Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activity, United States Africa Command/U.S. Africa Command since 2012. Before his current assignment Ambassador Dell served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo, after having also been posted to Angola and Zimbabwe.

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No wrongs are righted; the rule of law in a shambles.

The Zimbabwe government's own gross mismanagement of the economy and its corrupt rule has brought on the crisis, ... Plain Talk About Zimbabwe's Economy.

The argument that these narrowly targeted sanctions have hurt the larger economy could only be true if the economy as a whole were entirely in the hands of the 86 government and party officials on the list and they controlled all of it.

That are not connected to the regime leaders are free to do business with American firms.

In this context, what is truly important...is the growing recognition that Zimbabwe has already passed the point of no return in its ability to recover from its crisis without substantial outside help.

These experiences, and others from my previous postings, have convinced me that American engagement is critical in helping countries such as Angola and Zimbabwe move beyond crisis.

That's an astonishing reversal of 52 years of progress in only half a dozen years.