The U.S. Needs a New Africa Strategy Opinion

News Snapshot:

Earlier this month, an earthquake in the vicinity of Marrakech devastated Morocco, killing thousands and inflicting untold suffering. Last week, two dams in Libya broke, washing thousands more victims into the sea. To the south of those afflicted countries, in Sub-Saharan Africa, seven national governments have been overthrown by military coups in the past three years, with civil war or near-civil war conditions raging across the continent's Sahel region. In most cases, the winners are military or paramilitary forces backed by Russia, mainly through elements of its volatile Wagner Group, which in June staged a failed challenge to Russia's own...