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  • Vol 51 No 3
  •  5th February 2010

Who’s who in Africom

Theresa Whelan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for African Affairs, General William ‘Kip’ Ward, Commander, Africom, Anthony Holmes, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities, and Vice-Admiral Robert T. Moeller, Deputy, Military Operatio...

  • Vol 51 No 3
  •  5th February 2010

Warriors and diplomats

The United States Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany, represents a remarkable shift in policy over little more than a decade. In 1995, a Defense Department memorandum concluded that ‘America’s security interests in Africa are very limited’ and that ‘ult...

  • Vol 50 No 19
  •  25th September 2009

American airlift

When United States special forces landed near the Shabaab-held Somalian town of Barawe to assassinate and carry off several members of the Al Shabaab jihadist group on 12 September, they changed the rules of engagement in the war in Somalia. This will fo...

  • Vol 50 No 17
  •  28th August 2009

An American road to Khartoum

The road to Sudan is littered with the United States' special envoys and the most criticised, Scott Gration, is determined not to join the list of those who failed to persuade the Sudan government to make peace. He may find it easier to convince the rebel...

  • Vol 50 No 17
  •  28th August 2009

Let my people go

Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) will ask the United States to release a Somali terrorist suspect from Guantánamo Bay. Ismail Mahmoud Mohamed was a friend of and former advisor to President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and they worked togeth...

  • Vol 50 No 16
  •  7th August 2009

Washington backs the TFG

Even before President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia met United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the first leg of her seven-nation African tour, Washington had made it clear it was ready to supply more assistance to his Transitional Fed...

  • Vol 50 No 14
  •  10th July 2009

Barack Obama launches his agenda in Ghana

The African audience hopes that President Obama's declared Africa policy will be both distinctive and practicable

  • Vol 50 No 14
  •  10th July 2009

Washington's Africa team takes shape

After years of marginalisation and under-staffing, the African Affairs bureau of the State Department is beginning to attract strong interest from the other regional bureaux. The first key appointment of the new team was that of veteran diplomat Johnnie C...

  • Vol 50 No 14
  •  10th July 2009

Obama's akwaaba moment

John Atta Mills welcomes the first African-American US President and his entourage to Ghana amid hopes for US investment and cooperation

  • Vol 50 No 14
  •  10th July 2009

Ghana's DC dividend

Expectations are high in Accra that its hosting of President Barack Obama will prompt a rush of United States investment and assistance for Ghana and the region. Even sober policy-makers talk about a US-led Marshall Plan to rebuild Africa's infrastructure...

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