For decades, African diplomats to the western countries especially the United States focused inter-alia on increasing aid flow to Africa. However, current dynamics of global war on terror have changed foreign policy objectives and consequently changed the wave of international development and humanitarian aid.
University administrators have long advocated pulling their endowment funds out of investments that benefit countries that the elites find odious yet while they have divested themselves of holdings in nations such as South Africa or Israel, they are reluctant to pull their chips out of Iran, no matter how many terrorist watch lists U. S. government agencies put the regime on.