Vol 51 No 6 | UNITED STATESAFRICAEUROPE US military calls up Europe 19th March 2010 Washington wants the European Union to work with its African military missions, which may be more complicated than it seems The United States Africa Command (Africom) wants help with its task of promoting stability and fighting terrorism on the continent and hopes to get it from the European...
Vol 51 No 6 | UNITED STATESAFRICAEUROPE Military money 19th March 2010 In budget-cutting Washington DC, European cooperation is welcome even if European budgets are a fraction of United States’ funds. The US government has cut its Africom budget to...
Vol 51 No 4 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Beating up the bankers 19th February 2010 A Congressional probe shows how banks in the USA welcomed stolen funds from Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Nigeria Among the offending banks named in a new Congressional report on money laundering and corruption are HSBC Holdings, Europe’s largest bank, and Bank of America. They are accused...
Vol 51 No 4 | UNITED STATESAFRICA If you sincerely want to be rich 19th February 2010 In February, the United States Senate Subcommittee on Investigations produced evidence on the transfer of illicit and suspect funds from African regimes to the USA. Its report highlighted...
Vol 51 No 4 | GUINEAUNITED STATES The junta explains 19th February 2010 The putschists use former Pentagon officials to polish their image Blamed for the massacre of over 100 civilians last September, the junta in Conakry is trying to improve its image via a United States-based public relations company run...
Vol 51 No 4 | SUDANUNITED STATES Quiet trips to DC 19th February 2010 The National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front) wants to stop the world challenging its planned April election victory. A quiet push last month on debt relief and...
Vol 51 No 3 | UNITED STATESAFRICA More money for the military 5th February 2010 The Pentagon is expanding the reach and role of its new Africa command after a shaky start The United States’ military strategy in Africa, much criticised under President George W. Bush, looks much the same over a year after the inauguration of President Barack Obama....
Vol 51 No 3 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Who’s who in Africom 5th February 2010 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...
Vol 51 No 3 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Warriors and diplomats 5th February 2010 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...
Vol 50 No 19 | SOMALIAUNITED STATESSOMALILAND American airlift 25th September 2009 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...