Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Africa and Global Health Policy Subcommittee
FY 2023 Budget Request For Africa
Chair: Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)
Witnesses:- Mary Catherine Phee, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, U.S. Department of State
- Dr. Diana Putnam, Acting Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau of Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development
The FY 2023 budget request includes $1.6 billion for development assistance in Africa; $229 million for African Affairs in U.S. State, an increase of $20 million, which would support 26 new positions to “help embassies engage on global health, strengthen economic linkages, and counter the PRC’s malign influence in Africa”; $32.6 million for the Economic Support Fund for Africa including the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP), the Partnership for Regional East Africa Counterterrorism (PREACT), the Africa Regional Democracy Fund, and the Ambassador’s Special SelfHelp program; $33 million for the U.S. African Development Foundation; $55 million for the African Development Bank; $171 million for the African Development Fund; $20 million for the Young African Leader’s Initiative; $2.3 billion for international peacekeeping activities around the world, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo ($312.9 million), Central African Republic ($311 million), Sudan ($74.9 million) and South Sudan ($335 million), Western Sahara ($15.8 million), and Mali ($354 million); $5.6 billion in global health programs for Africa; $848 million in migration assistance for Africa; $50.8 million in international narcotics and law enforcement for Africa; $19.2 million in military training for Africa; $6 million in foreign military financing for Djibouti; among other spending. The budget request also includes $4.7 billion for international disaster assistance globally