Last week President Drumpf reportedly singled out Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “shithole countries” whose people were not the kind of immigrants the United States wanted. At the time, I happened to be in Serekunda, Gambia’s...
China’s approach is more ambitious. In recent years, it has taken steps to accrue national power on a scale that no country has attempted since the Cold War, by increasing its investments in the types of assets that...
One thing is clear: The U.S. military’s footprint on the African continent has grown exponentially in the last decade, and U.S. special operations forces have been the tip of the spear. In 2006, 1 percent of all U.S....
Chi Ping Patrick Ho allegedly paid a $500,000 (Shs1.8 billion) bribe to Sam Kahamba Kutesa, Uganda’s foreign minister so he could assist the Energy Company to obtain business advantages, including the potential acquisition of a Ugandan bank. The...
In 2002, the U.S. launched a counterterrorism program — known as the Pan Sahel Initiative, which later became the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership — to assist the militaries of Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger before expanding to include six...
A former Guinean cabinet minister, Mahmoud Thiam, 50, was sentenced to seven years in a US prison on Friday and ordered to pay back $8.5m for laundering bribes from a Chinese conglomerate in exchange for mining rights. Thiam was...
[fvplayer src=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4MBJw3MONU”] In spite of Africa’s constant presence at global environmental summits, and the raft of environmental treaties and conventions it has signed since the Kyoto Protocol, most countries on the continent have failed to achieve significant progress...
The first paragraph alone was so cringe-worthy, I wasn’t sure whether I was reading a parody: The smoked monkeys brought the point home. During my first day on a boat on the Congo River, I’d embraced the unfamiliar:...
As the former colonial power, France still has one of its largest concentration of its overseas forces stationed in Djibouti. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States also established Camp Lemonnier—its only permanent military installation in...
