Tag: Africa

The Hills Are Alive

David DeVoss · April 20, 2018 6:31 am

"I don't blame China," Trump said. "After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens? I give China great credit."

‘Game of Loans’: How China uses ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ to extend its military reach

Jamie McIntyre · April 17, 2018 4:00 am

In this Feb. 20, 2018, photo, newly arrived Sudanese refugees wait behind a wire fence at a reception center in Yida, South Sudan. While millions of South Sudanese flee their country in what the United Nations has called the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide, hundreds of thousands of people from neighboring Sudan have found an unlikely haven there from fighting at home.

South Sudan is hanging on to hope

Daniel Kuyu Lokolong · April 14, 2018 4:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, in Washington.

Trump drops Chad, keeps 6 other countries on travel ban list

Steven Nelson · April 10, 2018 10:43 pm

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., is questioned by reporters on Capitol Hill in D.C.

National Security

Jim Inhofe calls for specialized Army brigade to assist Africa security forces

Travis J. Tritten · April 9, 2018 6:16 pm

DJIBOUTI - A CH-53E Super Stallion, piloted by U.S. Marines, lands in the desert of Djibouti.

National Security

US grounds planes, cancels exercise in Djibouti after aviation accidents

Jamie McIntyre · April 5, 2018 5:00 pm

Kenya.

Huge crack in the ground in Africa could split the continent in two

Katelyn Caralle · April 4, 2018 1:17 pm

FILE - In this May 21, 2017 file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, holds a bilateral meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Riyadh. Washingtonâs surprise decision on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, to cut or delay nearly $300 million in aid to Egypt is the first time the Trump administration has publicly called out Cairo on its poor human rights record. It was also the latest twist in a decades-old relationship marked by dependence and disappointment on both sides.

Beltway Confidential

Cairo complications: the US challenge in dealing with Sisi

Tom Rogan · April 3, 2018 12:49 pm

Heavily armed somalis soldiers seal the area after a car bomb exploded in Mogadishu, Somalia Thursday, March 22, 2018.

National Security

US claims five more terrorists killed in quiet war in Somalia

Jamie McIntyre · April 2, 2018 3:03 pm

Smokes rises after an airstrike on an Islamic State militants held area in Libya in 2016.

National Security

US confirms strike killed senior al Qaeda leader in Libya

Jamie McIntyre · March 28, 2018 4:59 pm

A car drives on a road between Sebha and Ubari in southwestern Libya.

US airstrike kills ‘two terrorists’ in Libya

Anna Giaritelli · March 24, 2018 7:52 pm

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks at the Interior Department in Washington.

Energy and Environment

Ryan Zinke: ‘We have not imported one elephant’

Josh Siegel · March 15, 2018 3:57 pm