joe siegel, our director of research, who will moderate today's program and be with you all day. so thanks and, again, welcome to the africa center. joe? >> okay, thank you very much, mike. my name is joe siegel, i'm the trekker of research here at -- director of research here at the africa center for strategic studies, and i would also like to extend my welcome to everybody for coming out this morning. i'd like to especially recognize those from the african diplomatic community who are here with us this morning, notably ambassador kuch from south sudan. so thank you. very much, sir, for being here today. one administrative issue before we get started. there's been a change in our program from the last transition that you would have received. one of our guests who was to be on second panel coming from africa had some logistics issues getting here, and so he isn't going to be able to join us. and as a result, we decided just to consol tate the two panels -- consolidate the two panels. so we're going to go with one panel this morning, or it's going to be two hours. we'll just go al

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