Tag: Africa

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jon Anderson, U.S. Army Africa Security Forces Assistance Brigade (SFAB) commander, shakes the hand of a soldier from the Djiboutian National Armyâs Rapid Intervention Battalion (RIB) before receiving a certificate for completing a week of training Sept. 3, 2020.

National Security

Army counters Chinese influence in Africa with know-how and friendship

Abraham Mahshie · October 19, 2020 3:24 pm

Beltway Confidential

There’s no reason for Trump to keep troops in Somalia

Will Krumholz · October 19, 2020 10:00 am

Beltway Confidential

France’s overdue reckoning with Islamist extremism

Tom Rogan · October 18, 2020 10:47 pm

Liberia-born Minnesota state Senate candidate says ‘something’s up’ with ‘anti-American rhetoric in the media’

Emma Colton · October 18, 2020 4:33 pm

Soldiers from Somaliâs advanced infantry DANAB battalion await a certificate of completion after 14 weeks of training with the U.S. 10th Mountain division on the importance of logistical operation as well as the operation and maintenance of heavy equipment August 17, 2018.

National Security

‘Al Shabaab presents a future threat to America’ says AFRICOM after Trump Somalia plans made public

Abraham Mahshie · October 14, 2020 3:50 pm

Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., speaks before a House Armed Services Committee budget hearing for the Departments of the Army and Air Force on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 2, 2019.

Trump’s plans to move US Africa Command out of Germany lambasted by House Armed Service Committee chairman

Abraham Mahshie · October 8, 2020 7:14 pm

Beltway Confidential

Morocco shouldn’t wait for US election to make Israel peace

Michael Rubin · September 29, 2020 7:52 pm

Jen Psaki and Kamala Harris

‘Funding to respond is extremely low’: UN aid to Sudan running out amid worst flooding in decades

Tyler Van Dyke · September 29, 2020 4:04 pm

A White House aide, and others following the issue, say Trump did not know about the administration's decision to lift the trophy ban until he saw news reports, which were mostly critical of the move. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, FILE)

More than 300 elephants killed by toxin, not poaching, says US official

Spencer Neale · September 21, 2020 10:23 pm

Senegalese soldiers practice exiting the ramp of a U.S. Air Force CV-22 in Bamako, Mali, on Nov. 12, 2008 just prior to an infiltration and extraction exercise in support of U.S. Africa Command's Flintlock military exercise.

National Security

Mali coup leader was US-trained, but AFRICOM says counterterrorism training still vital

Abraham Mahshie · September 21, 2020 4:56 pm

Gen. Stephen Townsend, the commander of U.S Africa Command, addresses the audience during the U.S. Army Africa change of command ceremony held at Caserma Ederle in Vicenza, Italy, July 15, 2020.

National Security

Mali’s political uncertainty draws US and France closer in Africa terrorist fight

Abraham Mahshie · September 18, 2020 5:40 pm

A black man with hands outside the bars of a prison cell.

Rapists will face surgical castration under new Nigerian law. Child rapists will face death penalty

Andrew Mark Miller · September 17, 2020 7:31 pm