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US Steps Up Contest With China in Africa by Focusing on Ambassadors' Business Deals
6/3/2025
Egypt Says It Will Join South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel at ICJ
5/28/2025
US Military Shifts Messaging in Africa, Telling Allies To Prepare To Stand More on Their Own
5/25/2025
China Hosts Delegation of 100 African Military Officers To Strengthen Defense Ties
5/11/2025
Ghana in Fresh Drive To Woo Back Sahel States to West African Bloc
4/22/2025
Israel's Ambassador Is Ejected From an African Union Event
4/9/2025
Alliance of Sahel States Recalls Ambassadors as Tension With Algeria Rises
4/7/2025
Russia Hosts Top Diplomats From Sahel Countries for Talks on Boosting Security Ties
4/3/2025
Nigeria Introduces 'Africa's First' Kamikaze Attack Drone
4/3/2025
Trump Names Pro-Israel Media Activist as US Ambassador to South Africa
3/27/2025
Southern Africa Regional Bloc To Withdraw Troops From DR Congo Amid M23 Advance
3/13/2025
China Still Leads the Pack in Africa's Critical Minerals Race as US Struggles To Keep Up
3/12/2025
African Union Peacekeepers in Somalia Accused of Widespread Abuse
3/12/2025
How Drones Killed Nearly 1,000 Civilians in Africa in Three Years
3/11/2025
ECOWAS Team Leaves Guinea-Bissau After Threat of Expulsion
3/3/2025
United Nations' WFP Closes Office in Southern Africa Due to Funding
3/3/2025
US Ends Power Africa Initiative After a Decade
2/26/2025
How the RSF's Parallel Government Could Divide Sudan - and Africa
2/26/2025
How China Is Filling Void Left by France, US With Stronger Military Ties in Africa's Sahel
2/25/2025
A Blow to Human Rights in Africa: Internet Shutdowns Increase in 2024
2/24/2025
Israel 'Committing Genocide, Must Be Prosecuted Internationally': Africa Union
2/17/2025
Zelensky To Address African Union Summit Via Video Amid Opposition
2/14/2025
US Ends Aid to South Africa Over Land Law, Israel Stance
2/9/2025
Thousands Rally in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger To Cheer ECOWAS Exit
1/28/2025
Cradock Four: Why Apartheid Victims Are Suing South Africa's Government
1/24/2025
Why Beijing May Step Up African Security Efforts After Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's 'Close Call' in Chad Attack
1/20/2025
Chinese Foreign Minister Pledges Military Aid for Africa
1/9/2025
China's Top Diplomat Heads to Africa as West's Attention Dwindles
1/6/2025
Still Awaiting Thanks for Stopping Extremists in Sahel, Macron Says
1/6/2025
African Union Pauses Somalia Troop Withdrawal To Ensure Smooth Transition to New Mission
1/5/2025
Africa Has Entered a New Era of War
12/31/2024
The Key Events That Shaped the Middle East/North Africa Region in 2024
12/26/2024
As Chad and Senegal End Military Ties With Paris, Is France Finished in the Sahel?
12/9/2024
Infographic: France's Military Presence Decreases in Africa
12/2/2024
Internal Displacement in Africa Triples in 15 Years: Monitor
11/26/2024

Viewpoints

Terrorism in Africa Increased 100,000% During 'War on Terror'
2/12/2024
US Out of Africa Now!
11/7/2023
Rumors of War in West Africa
8/13/2023
How Africa Surprised the West During the War in Ukraine
7/8/2023
Wagner in Africa: Everywhere, All at Once?
4/27/2023
France Out of West Africa, Supposedly Ending 8-Years of Muddled Military Mission
11/16/2022
Africa: the US Is Losing Yet Another 'War on Terror'
10/17/2022
Africa's Path to Energy Prosperity Is With Free Markets, Not Eco-Colonialism
9/5/2022
Biden's New Africa Strategy Is Shortsighted and Stale
8/12/2022
Training Coup Leaders and Creating Terrorists in West Africa
1/31/2022
Another US-Trained Soldier Stages a Coup in West Africa
1/27/2022
The Horn of Africa Heads Toward Apocalypse
12/1/2021
Senate Eyes Plan to Send Military Aid to Africa -- to Fight Beijing and Moscow
11/19/2021
The CIA Undermined Postcolonial Africa From the Start
11/9/2021
A Coup in Africa Is Another Quiet Embarrassment for the US
9/21/2021
The US Is Turning Oil-Rich Nigeria Into a Proxy for Its Africa Wars
9/14/2021
Are US-Backed Forces Turning West Africa's Sahel Region Into a 'Killing Field'?
7/12/2020
US Engagement in Africa Should Be Led by Civilians, Not the Military
6/16/2020
The US Brags About Health Aid to Africa While Bombing Its Nations
5/22/2020
Why We Can't Help France Fight Its Failed Colonial Wars in Africa
4/29/2020
'Zero Accountability': The US Failure to Report Civilian Deaths
4/2/2020
Surprise! The Army Is Now Using ISIS as an Excuse to Stay in Africa
3/17/2020
The US Military Should End Its Counterterror Operations in Africa
3/4/2020
Pentagon's Own Map of US Bases in Africa Contradicts Its Claim of 'Light' Footprint
2/27/2020
America's Africa Enigma: Why US Troops Are Taking Unnecessary Risks
2/23/2020
Why Are Americans Being Killed in Africa?
1/22/2020
Violence Has Spiked in Africa Since Founding of Africom, Pentagon Study Finds
7/29/2019
NYT: Cries 'Russia in Africa!' Downplays Massive US Military Presence There
4/4/2019
Africa and the Blood of Christians
3/27/2019
The Dogs of War Sniff Out Mission in Central Africa
3/11/2019
The US Has More Military Operations in Africa Than the Middle East
12/14/2018
Pentagon's 'Light Footprint' in Africa Is a Vast Network of Bases
12/1/2018
US Military's Laughable Worst-Case Scenario for Africa
9/12/2018
US Military Presence in Africa: All Over Continent and Still Expanding
8/30/2018
The US Is Building a Drone Base in Africa That Will Cost More Than $280 Million by 2024
8/21/2018

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