An increasing US focus on Africa — but is it a ‘pivot’?
By John Vandiver STUTTGART, Germany— Is the U.S. “pivoting” toward Africa? The U.S. commando raids earlier this month in Somalia and Libya have some pundits floating the idea that the U.S. could be in the early stages of a strategic swing toward Africa. The idea has already been hash-tagged on Twitter as a kind of counterpoint to the much touted U.S. strategic shift to Asia. With misrule and weak governance casting an arc of instability across a large swath of Africa, the region at times seems almost front and center as…
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