Thursday's global agenda: Clinton vs. Kony

Your morning global affairs speed-read

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on her way to Uganda for the second stop of her 10-day tour of Africa. She's scheduled to talk democracy with President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power for 26 years, and is also expected to visit a military base for an update on the U.S. contribution to the hunt for Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army. [The Washington Post]

Clinton will also discuss the situation in Somalia and the terror threat in Africa, and address the AIDS epidemic and the recent Ebola outbreak. You can track her Africa travels here. 

Egypt's choice: President Mohammed Morsi offers further clues about which direction Egypt is going when he names his Cabinet today. Last week, Prime Minister Hisham Kandil promised the main criterion for selection to the technocratic government would be efficiency. [allAfrica.com]

Anti-terror tool: The House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Terrorism holds a hearing on the State Department’s Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications and its mission, operations and impact. The center's coordinator, Alberto Fernandez, is slated to testify. 

The secretive center made a splash this spring when it was involved in spoof ads on websites in Yemen that replaced jihadist ads with pictures of coffins draped with Yemeni instead of American flags, to show most victims of terrorism are local people. Yemen's embassy in the United States applauded the controversial campaign.

Spending spree: The House Armed Services oversight panel holds a hearing on corruption in Afghanistan and whether it will undermine the Afghan National Security Forces.

In other news: 

President Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad and his government, Reuters reports.

Mitt Romney's hawkish remarks in Israel are drawing renewed attention to foreign-policy adviser Dan Senor, the former spokesman of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq whose office was once credited for/accused of doing “a masterful job of spinning the media.” [The New York Times]

Israel said the United States has failed to persuade Iran to stop its alleged nuclear weapons program. [The Wall Street Journal]

The Pentagon's theoretical war with China is raising real tensions. [The Washington Post]

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