DENVER (Africa News Matters) — There are no doubts about the strategic importance of the African continent to the world’s superpowers. Just as Russia, China, and India have upped the ante in relations with African nations, the United States, considered grossly lagging in its strategic relations with the continent, appears ready to change its ways. The Obama…
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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Blinken-Africa-Embassies-GettyImages-1236657472.jpg U.S. embassies across Africa are facing chronic staffing shortages that are undercutting U.S. foreign-policy goals on the continent and sapping the morale of the diplomatic corps, according to interviews with multiple U.S. officials and regional experts. The problem has caught the attention of top U.S. lawmakers, who have raised alarm bells about the long-term…
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/roxQ21jDKGALSceO0XKspnWN2c4=/960x540/filters:format(png)/media/img/mt/2022/07/AmericanMyth_1/original.png For European officials and politicians, a great fear gnaws at the back of their minds when they look at the ongoing war in Ukraine: What happens if the United States loses interest? Despite the war being in Europe, involving European powers, with largely European consequences, America remains the essential partner for Ukraine. For most…
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1‑COVID-britain-book-review-preventable-GettyImages-1209024037.jpg A pedestrian passes artwork by the artist known as the Rebel Bear on a wall on Bath Street in Glasgow, England, in April 2020. Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images During a recent trip to London, I saw almost no one wearing a mask—except for American tourists, who were easily identifiable because they wore…
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/06/24/world/24Rwanda-Commonwealth3/24Rwanda-Commonwealth3-moth.jpg A summit of the organization that was born out of the embers of the British Empire is being held for the first time in the African country, but discussion of the host’s alleged abuses is conspicuously missing. KIGALI, Rwanda — Presidents, princes and prime ministers from across the world gathered on Friday in Kigali,…
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/S7ND6JdtoU43D5sEkZFwAs8aNos=/960x540/media/img/mt/2022/06/AP22161160480694/original.jpg As the golden light bled from the Los Angeles sky one evening last week, a mariachi band played at a rooftop cocktail party for corporate executives and government officials from a couple dozen countries. They had gathered on the eve of the Summit of the Americas, an every-few-years meeting that would begin in the…
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/zMtluiAZIEUvPPNmFGAk6gH0pxM=/960x540/media/img/mt/2022/05/GettyImages_1398264563/original.jpg If President Joe Biden’s trip to Asia—marked as it was by his comments on the defense of Taiwan, announcements on a proposed new regional trade pact, and meetings with leaders who exhibit similar levels of concern about a rising China—has shown the persistence of American global power, it has also revealed something of equal…
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/05/05/us/politics/05dc-covid-diplo1-sub/05dc-covid-diplo1-sub-moth.jpg The antiviral pills, plentiful in the United States, are scarce overseas. Health groups and the White House want to expand access but face obstacles that evoke the H.I.V. epidemic. WASHINGTON — A devastating virus was laying waste to nations that lacked medicines available to Americans. The pills were patented and pricey. Poor countries lacked…