Africa

The Department of Defence either deliberately sabotaged the United States’ participation in the AAD or is staggeringly incompetent.

“We are thinking big because space is playing a key role in many different programmes, whether it’s in our agriculture, whether it’s in weather-related type of incidents, whether it’s in education.

The U.S. was forced to pull its 1,000 troops and critical counterterrorism and drone base from Niger and is now courting other West African nations that are interested in working with the U.S. and may be open to an expanded American presence.

There is an opportunity for the U.S. government to leverage space technology to foster stronger relationships with Africa.

Ramaphosa’s government may perceive them as a “small enclave,” they are overlooking  their links to international radical right-wing movements. 

“Russia supports terrorism in different forms, many, many regions of the world, and also by using these Wagner groups.”

There are only 200,000 doses of mpox vaccines available according to the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) has reported, resulting in a shortfall of 9.8 million.

The recent significant losses suffered by Russian mercenaries at the hands of Tuareg rebels in Mali have undermined the perception that Russia’s Wagner Group can enhance security for local communities in the Sahel, according to Sahel expert Professor Sebastian Elischer from the University of Florida.

“I think the status quo,serves quite a lot of people’s interest well and a major escalation doesn’t serve anyone.”

22 cases of MPOX have been identified in South Africa leading to three deaths. 16 patients have recovered and three are considered as ‘active cases.’

African leaders from every corner of the continent have voiced growing concern about the destabilising effects of this disinformation on their countries, said Gen. Michael Langley, commander of U.S. Africa Command, at an African Chiefs of Defence Conference in Botswana

Iran and Niger cemented a secret ‘yellow cake’ uranium deal in late April for the delivery of 300 tons of uranium in exchange for drones-and-surface to air missiles.