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Global Crises

The US casts strategic and economic competition aside as it engages in endless wars in Africa

US policymakers routinely see the African continent as a battlefield in the so-called "war on terror" rather than the opportunity for economic partnership that it is.

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Washington Politics

A sigh of relief before the storm: Sudan in the eye of the COVID-19 storm

Sudan's response to the coronavirus has been one bright spot in this ongoing pandemic. But it's not out of the woods yet, and some say U.S. sanctions are preventing it from winning the fight.