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The US Africa Command and Trump’s Policy Toward Africa

With the second inauguration of President Trump, the United States is set to pursue an aggressive new national security policy toward Africa. In the Sahel and coastal West Africa, in Somalia and the Horn of Africa, in Sudan, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Mozambique, and elsewhere in Africa, the US Africa Command (Africom) will be called upon to counter the “malign influence” of China and the threat of “violent extremist organizations” (VEOs). These VEOs—as they are officially designated by the Pentagon—include armed jihadist insurgents, many aligned with al-Qaeda or the Islamic State; ethnically-based insurgents like the Tuareg militias in the Sahel and the Hutu and Tutsi militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and armed groups fighting to achieve their rights to self-determination, like the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. The panel will examine the evolution of US national security policy toward Africa in President Trump’s second term in office. It will also discuss or investigate the evolution of the US Africa Command operations and activities on the continent.

Please send a title and abstract of your proposed paper by 1 March 2025 to
Daniel Volman, African Security Research Project in Washington, DC, at dvolman@igc.org

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