Tag: Africa

Energy and Environment

American natural gas will help solve global energy poverty

David Spigelmyer · December 27, 2018 5:02 pm

Pope Francis arrives to deliver the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

Pope Francis calls for peace in Yemen, Syria in Christmas message

Kelly Cohen · December 25, 2018 3:38 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018.

In Africa, the US needs to counteract China and Russia — without becoming them

Washington Examiner · December 24, 2018 5:00 am

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, al-Shabab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. A U.S. drone strike in Somalia has targeted a key leader of the al-Shabab militant group who was involved in two attacks in Mogadishu more than a year ago that killed more than 30 people, at least three Americans among them, the Pentagon said Friday, April 1, 2016. Several U.S. officials said he and two others were killed. Hassan Ali Dhoore was targeted in the airstrike Thursday, but the U.S. military was still assessing the results, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement.

National Security

US has killed 137 in two months of Somalia airstrikes

Jamie McIntyre · December 17, 2018 8:28 pm

National security adviser John Bolton speaks during the daily press briefing.

John Bolton: US aid programs will counter China’s ‘imperial’ play in Africa

Joel Gehrke · December 13, 2018 6:44 pm

National Security Advisor John Bolton unveils the Trump Administration's Africa Strategy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018.

US wants Africa chip in more on anti-terror ops, John Bolton says

Travis J. Tritten · December 13, 2018 5:21 pm

A person hits a flat surface with a gavel.

American married six African women he didn’t know in ploy to get immigration benefits

Anna Giaritelli · December 6, 2018 10:33 pm

A Political Lesson Often Forgotten: There’s No Such Thing as an Overnight Transformation

Philip Terzian · December 4, 2018 2:56 am

In this October 2018 photo, American adventurer John Allen Chau stands for a photograph just days before he left for India, in Cape Town, South Africa.

Beltway Confidential

John Allen Chau: A martyr and a fool

Philip Wegmann · November 27, 2018 2:11 am

Sahrawi women walk through the Smara refugee camp near Tindouf, south-western Algeria, Friday, March 4, 2016. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is expected to arrive in Tindouf on March 5 to visit Sahrawi refugee camps. Ban Ki-moon will meet with leaders of the Polisario Front, the organization disputing sovereignty over Western Sahara with Morocco, in the hope to help solving a 40-year conflict.

Trump could free Africa’s last remaining colony

Washington Examiner · November 26, 2018 1:49 pm

An Indian health worker fumigates an area to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. More than 200 million people live in impoverished Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state. Thousands of people suffer from encephalitis, malaria, typhoid and other mosquito-borne diseases each year during the summer monsoon.

Malaria progress is stalling out, World Health Organization warns

Robert King · November 19, 2018 3:49 pm

Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander of U.S. Africa Command, is joined by U.S. Ambassador to Senegal Tulinabo S. Mushingi, on a tour of a cooperative security location Camp Cisse in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, July 30, 2018.

National Security

Pentagon to pull hundreds of counterterror troops from Africa

Travis J. Tritten · November 15, 2018 9:17 pm