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Published on May 16, 2015
The American presidential election campaign is picking up speed.

And as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton travels across the US to meet what she calls "everyday Americans", people are wondering whether Bill Clinton is helping or hurting her prospects.
So far, the former US president has remained at the sidelines, occupied with a busy schedule of his own.

He is devoting time and energy to his Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, an effort to focus the attention of international leaders on problems facing the developing world.
Ironically, he is particularly involved in the region that created more headaches than any other for his wife when she was Secretary of State: the Middle East and North Africa.
We discuss the challenges facing the Middle East, what the future holds for Africa and his wife Hillary Clinton as former US President Bill Clinton talks to Al Jazeera.