May 22, 2020
…cheer these successes, the discourse on Africa in Washington, DC has focused on competition and security. Africa’s economic success has renewed concerns about a “new Scramble for Africa” and Chinese…
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November 25, 2020
President Trump’s overt contempt for Africans is encapsulated in his famously crass remark about African countries. But the principal damage to Africa has stemmed from his administration’s broader policy choices,…
March 4, 2020
…sum, by militarizing U.S. engagement in Africa, security assistance, training, and operations are harming U.S. security interests. The U.S. military’s African adventure started in 2007. Until then, Africa had been…
March 10, 2020
…in countries in need, especially in West Africa and the Sahel region. Military withdrawal should be followed by massive programs designed to improve the lives of peoples in West African…
June 16, 2020
…Defense Secretary Mark Esper was considering a drawdown of U.S. forces in Africa was met with shock and disappointment, despite general acknowledgment that our efforts there weren’t getting the job…
July 8, 2020
…his priority to extend the Turkish influence in West Africa. Taking aim at the French colonial past in Africa, Erdogan declared in Gabon in 2013 that “Africa belongs to Africans; we are…
January 24, 2021
…status-quo Joe has never been a transformational type. Keep an eye on Africa Though it garners far less public interest than the U.S. military’s long-favored Middle Eastern playground, Africa figures significantly in…
April 18, 2020
…Every day, 2,000 African children die from diarrhea. Every minute, an African child dies of malaria. In 2011 alone, 1.2 million Africans died of HIV/AIDS. The Ebola epidemic would have…
November 15, 2020
…in the Middle East. In this competition, the USSR tried to maintain a permanent military presence in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa in order to supply its naval operations…
February 1, 2021
…practice.” This blurring is apparent even in the programs overseen by State, such as the Partnership for Regional East Africa Counterterrorism, which disburses funds for CVE and rewards initiatives that…
January 18, 2021
In assessing the importance of the Middle East and North Africa region to China, the glass seems both half full and half empty with regard to what it will take…
March 20, 2020
…these years, mainly in America’s conflicts across the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa. During this period, Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has grown in every way imaginable — from…
January 22, 2020
…most blatantly and thus noticeably in Southwest Asia (SWA) and the Middle East and Africa (MEA). From the end of World War II, through the U.S.-British engineered coup d’état in…
November 28, 2020
…our Africa policy has taken a blunt approach, quickly designating the good guys and the bad and painting each with a broad brush that demands unquestioning loyalty or enmity. This…
January 2, 2020
Like 2019, the new year and perhaps the new decade is likely to be pockmarked by popular protest, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. The question is what…