America’s Moment of Truth in Africa: It’s Losing Out to China
- Bolton offers few details in new U.S. strategy toward Africa
- Ivory Coast project got 18 bids, but none from U.S. companies
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When a press release announced that President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton would unveil a new American strategy for Africa, it raised the question: What was the old one?
From Algeria to Zimbabwe, the U.S. risks losing sway over the 1.2 billion people who inhabit the world’s second-most populous continent. Bolton’s speech on Thursday acknowledged as much, as he framed the administration’s strategic rethink around countering gains made by the U.S.’s primary geopolitical rivals.