Bush’s Africa hand faults ‘tough love’

Having worked from 2005-2009 in the State Department’s top Africa post, Frazer now holds a professorship at Carnegie Mellon University in the state of Pennsylvania.

These sharp attacks suggest that she wants to play the role during the next four years of chief Republican opponent of Obama’s Africa policy.

She may also be seeking to burnish her reputation in the aftermath of a report by the State Department’s inspector-general that implicitly faulted her leadership of the department’s Africa Bureau.