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…
July 14, 2021
…“African solutions to African problems,” its programs were developed without significant consultation with African civil societies, and U.S. rather than African security concerns have dominated the agenda. The absence of…
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…
April 8, 2021
…to African governments but also to outside powers. Furthermore, local factors are also decisive in opening or closing opportunities for peacemaking, as the uneven distribution of extremist violence across African…
August 26, 2021
…the U.S. and broader international involvement, but Addis Ababa has stated that the issue is African, and Africans should solve it. The sentiment is noble and not altogether erroneous. However,…
July 19, 2021
…— which measures political pluralism, civil society space, and personal liberties across Africa — has been on a downward trend since 2012. A recent African Peer Review Mechanism annual report…
July 8, 2020
…Erdogan has made it 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…
April 13, 2021
…support among communities for violent extremism.” Within Africa, TSCTP has a peer program, the Partnership for Regional East Africa Counterterrorism. Figures regarding TSCTP’s performance are not fully available to the…
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…
March 24, 2021
…a tri-continental “world island” comprised of Asia, Europe, and Africa. As strong as those empires were in their day, no imperial power fully perfected its global reach by capturing both…
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…
February 1, 2021
…and in 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…
August 16, 2021
…a major new point of departure for desperate emigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Tunisia already plays host to some 20,000 Africans (mostly from Côte d’Ivoire), many of whom are undocumented. Such migrants may…
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…
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…