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Jul 25, 2014

Three Questions with Dr. J. Peter Pham on the 2014 Africa Summit

By The Atlantic Council

Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the upcoming 2014 Africa Summit, which will take place July 31 – August 8 in Washington, DC.

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May 13, 2014

Intelbrief: Nigeria: The Limits of US Assistance

By Bronwyn Bruton

Bottom Line Up Front     Amid surging outrage in Nigeria and abroad—and the acute focus generated by the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign—over Boko Haram’s kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls, President Obama has promised that the US will do “everything it can” to help rescue them US support efforts are challenged in a number of ways to include […]

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May 2, 2014

IntelBrief: The Eastleigh Crackdown & the Troubled Kenya-Somalia Relationship

By Joshua Meservey

Bottom Line Up Front The Somali and Kenyan governments are at war with the Somalia-based terror group al-Shabab, but disagreements over the Kenyan Defense Forces’ actions in Somalia’s Kismayo region have strained the bilateral relationship. In April, Kenya launched a nation-wide security crackdown that targeted its domestic Somali population. Some four thousand were detained, including […]

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Apr 2, 2014

J. Peter Pham on Threats and Opportunities in the Sahel

By J. Peter Pham

Atlantic Council Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham authored a review essay on threats and opportunities in the Sahel for the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the Middle East and Africa.

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Mar 18, 2014

Pham on Islamism in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Morocco

By J. Peter Pham

Atlantic Council Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham is the author of the reports on Islamism in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Morocco in the American Foreign Policy Council’s World Almanac of Islamism 2014, just published by Rowman & Littlefield.

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Feb 26, 2014

IntelBrief: Chad’s Ambiguous Role in African Security

By Sam Fishman

Bottom Line Up Front President Idriss Déby Itno has deployed Chadian armed forces into the violent political maelstroms unfolding in Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR), earning gratitude from Western donor powers and possibly transforming Chad—long considered a diplomatic backwater—into a regional powerbroker But Déby’s intervention in CAR has been controversial. International NGOs and […]

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Feb 11, 2014

IntelBrief: Guns for Ivory: Africa’s Latest Conflict Trend

By Vivian Breckenridge

Bottom Line Up FrontThe demand for illegal African ivory has boomed in recent years, driven by flourishing Asian markets and facilitated by global trafficking networks Increasingly, poaching funds the activities of terrorist organizations, rebel movements, and other armed groups throughout the continent The illicit ivory trade will continue to fuel instability until states—in cooperation with […]

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Jan 23, 2014

IntelBrief: Somali Piracy Neutralized: West Africa Is Next

By J. Peter Pham

Bottom Line Up Front • The International Maritime Bureau reports that incidents of maritime piracy hit a six-year low in 2013, mainly because of a precipitous drop in attacks off the coast of Somalia• But piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is rapidly replacing the Somali threat. West African piracy accounted for 19 percent of worlwide attacks […]

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Jan 21, 2014

J. Peter Pham on Resolving the Western Sahara Conflict

By J. Peter Pham

Atlantic Council Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham contributed the concluding chapter to a just-released book on Perspectives on Western Sahara: Myths, Nationalisms, and Geopolitics. Pham wrote on “A Realistic Solution to the Western Sahara Conflict” for the volume edited by Anouar Boukhars, senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for […]

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Jan 14, 2014

Does Washington Have a Stake in the Sahel?

By John Campbell and J. Peter Pham

Long known as a region of weak, poorly governed, corrupt states, Africa’s Sahel is fast becoming more salient for the outside world. The challenges of radical Islam, narcotics trafficking and other criminal networks, and growing environmental stress are taxing the capacity of Sahelian governments. Many of these states have asked the United States and its […]

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