Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner‘s Restoring America project will feature its latest series, Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy. We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be done.

President Donald Trump cares little for bureaucratic norms and refuses to allow legacy inefficiencies to straitjacket him. While he signals little interest in Africa, the rise of Chinese and Russian influence on the continent and the concurrent hemorrhaging of French and U.S. influence pose a challenge to U.S. strategic interests on the continent.