Africa

Pham Speaks at African Ambassadors’ Event on Regional Solutions

Atlantic Council Africa Director J. Peter Pham was a featured speaker at an African ambassadors’ roundtable on “Regional Solutions to Challenges in Africa” at the National Press Club today.

Somaliland Democratization Strategy

Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and the International Republican Institute (IRI) hosted the Washington launch today of the new Somaliland International Democratization Strategy commissioned by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. Prepared by IRI after extensive consultation and field research, the detailed strategy document will help the international donor community coordinate and plan future democracy-support […]

Let’s Give Somalia’s Government the Non-Recognition It Deserves

By J. Peter Pham

One year ago the Obama administration broke with the Somalia policy of its three predecessors by according diplomatic recognition to the government of the Federal Republic of Somalia. Last month, in his annual Worldwide Threat Assessment report to Congress, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper bemoaned that the Somali regime’s “persistent political infighting, weak leadership […]

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 […]

EU Defense Ministers Support the Way Forward for CSDP and EU Operations

By European Union

The informal meeting of EU Defence Ministers took place on 20 and 21 February in Athens, chaired by Greek Minister of National Defence Dimitris Avramopoulos on behalf of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton.