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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Madagascar

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Madagascar. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget widely and easily accessible to the public, including online, but it did not publish its executive budget proposal or end-of-year report within a reasonable period. Information on debt obligations...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Central African Republic

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Central African Republic. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing information on debt obligations, including major state-owned enterprise debt. The government made its enacted budget and quarterly reports publicly available...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Mozambique

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Mozambique. During the review period, the government published its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report online within a reasonable period. Publicly available budget documents provided a complete picture of the government’s planned expenditures...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Eswatini

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Eswatini. During the review period, the government published its enacted budget within a reasonable period. However, the executive budget proposal and the end-of-year report were not publicly available within a reasonable period. Information on debt obligations...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Benin

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Benin. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal and enacted budget publicly available, including online, but the end-of-year report was not published. Budget documents provided a substantially complete picture of the government’s...


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U.S.-Japan Extended Deterrence Dialogue

Release: The Government of the United States hosted the Government of Japan for an Extended Deterrence Dialogue (EDD) at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri on June 26-27, 2023. The United States and Japan established the EDD in 2010 as an enduring venue to discuss ways to sustain and strengthen extended deterrence,...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: China, People’s Republic of

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: China, People’s Republic of.


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Sanctioning Entities and Individual Connected to Wagner Group in Africa

News Release: The United States is imposing sanctions on several entities in the Central African Republic (CAR) today for their connection to the transnational criminal organization known as the Wagner Group and for their involvement in activities that undermine democratic processes and institutions in the CAR through illicit trade in the country’s natural resources.


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Congo, Democratic Republic of

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Congo, Democratic Republic of.


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: El Salvador

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: El Salvador. During the review period, the government published its enacted budget and end-of-year report online within a reasonable period, although it did not publish its executive budget proposal within a reasonable period. Information on debt obligations, including...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Liberia

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Liberia. During the review period, the government made significant progress by making its executive budget proposal publicly available within a reasonable period, by making major state-owned enterprise debt information publicly available, and by making basic information...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Cambodia

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Cambodia. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing its executive budget proposal within a reasonable period. The government also made its enacted budget available online but did not publish an end-of-year report within a reasonable...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Tanzania

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Tanzania. During the review period, the government made significant progress by ensuring publicly available budget documents provided a substantially complete picture of the government’s planned expenditures and revenue. The government made its enacted budget and...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Sao Tome and Principe

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Sao Tome and Principe.


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Djibouti National Day

Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the Djiboutian people on the 46th anniversary of your nation’s independence.


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Burundi

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Burundi. During the review period, the government made significant progress by auditing the entire annual executed budget within a reasonable period. The government published its enacted budget and end-of-year budget report within a reasonable period. It did not...


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Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Hammer Travels to Kenya

Release: U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Ambassador Mike Hammer is traveling to Kenya June 27-30 to consult with regional and international partners on supporting continued implementation of the November 2022 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (COHA) in northern Ethiopia.


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Djibouti

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Djibouti. During the review period, the government published the enacted budget and end-of-year report within a reasonable period. It did not publish the executive budget proposal within a reasonable period. The government did not make information on debt obligations...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: South Africa

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: South Africa. During the review period, the government published its executive budget proposal and enacted budget online within a reasonable period. It did not publish its end-of-year report online within a reasonable period. Publication of information on debt obligations...


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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Angola

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Angola. During the review period, the government’s executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report were widely and easily accessible online to the public within a reasonable period. The information in the budget was considered generally reliable...