May 22, 2020
…Initiative, the signal infrastructure project for Africa championed by the Obama administration was the Electrify Africa Act scheme which aimed to bring electricity to 60 million Africans by 2030. Announced…
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February 8, 2022
…political engagement equitably is a good instinct — despite high economic growth in most African states and a thriving African middle class, U.S. bulk trade with Africa was halved over…
January 31, 2022
…percent of all such violence in Africa,” the Africa Center noted. “There are now more fatalities linked to militant Islamist groups in the Sahel than any other region in Africa.”…
November 25, 2020
Building back a better Africa policy should not mean going back to old ways President Trump’s overt contempt for Africans is encapsulated in his famously crass remark about African countries….
March 4, 2020
…African adventure started in 2007. Until then, Africa had been a Pentagon backwater, with forces supplied by other regional commands when Americans needed to be evacuated or humanitarian relief delivered,…
March 10, 2020
We need community engagement, not US troops, to combat terrorism in West Africa and the Sahel Recent headlines from reports out of Mauritania in the New York Times and the…
November 19, 2021
…African forces to counter Beijing and Moscow. The proposal lays new legal groundwork for a long-term bid to expand U.S. military influence in Africa. But the security initiative it authorizes…
June 6, 2022
…than the urgent global issues that face Africa and the world. For Africans, as well as others who have lived in Africa or worked on African issues, the disproportionate attention…
March 4, 2022
…war. But in Africa, the double standards start at home. Since Emperor Haile Selassie addressed the League of Nations in 1936, when his country was invaded by Mussolini, African leaders…
August 12, 2022
Biden’s new Africa strategy is shortsighted and stale On August 8, the Biden administration launched its Africa Strategy, amid trips to the continent by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and…
July 14, 2021
…— and trained experts were shunted aside. Although AFRICOM was billed as promoting “African solutions to African problems,” its programs were developed without significant consultation with African civil societies, and…
June 29, 2022
Poll: China most influential power in Africa as US influence wanes China is by far the most influential foreign power in Africa, according to a recent poll of African youth…
August 2, 2022
US shouldn’t normalize post-coup military juntas in West Africa On July 24, a delegation from the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, visited Burkina Faso to assess the…
March 30, 2022
The military isn’t tracking US-trained officers in Africa In the last two years, U.S.-trained officers have overthrown West African governments at least four times. But U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) can’t…
June 16, 2020
…on the Rocks, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen asserted that “Africa deserves more attention from the U.S. military,” while at the same time conceding that…
May 4, 2022
Strongmen, coups, corruption drive Horn of Africa to the brink The world is watching while the three largest countries of the Horn of Africa — Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan —…
April 8, 2021
…military engagement in Africa for more than a decade, reported on previously classified documents and a Pentagon report showing that U.S. Special Operations Forces active in Africa for nearly two…
February 14, 2022
WSJ plays into Biden admin’s argument that West Africa is in US ‘backyard’ The Wall Street Journal featured an article this weekend announcing that the United States “aims to thwart…
July 5, 2022
Can outside actors stop the atrocities in Africa’s Sahel? Mass atrocities now occur regularly in the Sahel. The names of towns, villages, and districts in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger…
July 19, 2021
…Gate massacre. African governance monitoring indexes have indicated that freedoms in the democratic process are regressing on the continent. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation Index of African Governance’s participation, rights, and…
August 26, 2021
…year, creating both water shortage and extensive flooding. Cairo has requested the U.S. and broader international involvement, but Addis Ababa has stated that the issue is African, and Africans should…