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The White House’s attempt to appoint a senior Africa director has fallen apart for the third time, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Air Force Col. Jean-Philippe Peltier, a career intelligence officer who was born in Chad and raised across Francophone Africa, had been lined up for the top Africa role. But he will no longer be joining the White House, after failing to reach an agreement with the Trump administration on housing compensation, according to two of the sources. A White House spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
The White House’s previous candidates both had extensive US-Africa policy knowledge but were rejected by some in the right wing of the Republican Party for their previous stances on moderate issues such as environmental causes.
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