Will Africa Be the Last Oil Frontier?

Lee Wengraf — 2021-10-31T08:05:47Z

“Our continent cannot keep supplying the Global North. We can't.” —INA-MARIA SHIKONGO, Fridays For Future Windhoek

- IV561 - October 2021 / Ecology and the Environment, Namibia

U.S. Imperialism and Africa's “Perfect Storm”

Lee Wengraf — 2020-08-03T08:43:00Z

On December 24, 2019, the New York Times reported that U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper was weighing a reduction in troop levels in West Africa. Although the numbers involved were small, this news was met with official outcry and unleashed a fierce policy debate on the wisdom of such a drawdown. Military and elected officials have pushed back on the notion of a troop reduction as a “retreat” and a missed opportunity to counter both China's regional influence and terrorism. In fact, by the military establishment's own definition, “counter-terror” across the continent has failed: Attacks by militant groups have been sharply rising and have increased with foreign intervention. And devastating strikes by the United States have continued unabated: Somalia, for example, was the target of an unprecedented level of attacks in early 2020 alone.

- IV547 - August 2020 / United States (USA), Economy, China, Covid-19 Pandemic

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Will Africa Be the Last Oil Frontier?

U.S. Imperialism and Africa's “Perfect Storm”