Africa Amid Global Interest Change
Africa in the Global Hands: Triangulation or Strangulation
Through the prisms of the international media of the Western World, Africa was only and continuously analyzed and assessed in terms of space of rivalry between the East and the West and the Far East and the Far West.
Africa was then approached as the hidden space where duels took place behind the curtain of political ideologies and economic models of development. To further expose the potential distortion of the democratic model taking place through elections, the major metropolitical analysts and metropolitan mediatic news outlets focused on denunciation of the infiltration of Russian militias and interests in Central African and Sahel countries where French colonialism had never cut its ties with its past presence in these countries.
Russia’s presence in these regions was then presented as the bridge to authoritarian-bureaucratic-military regimes through the removal of elected civilian presidents and governments. In this perspective, Russia was not presented as a contributor to the development of the security of Libya, the Central African countries, or even Somalia. More recently, the Wagner Group’s change of name was decried by the same reporters as the new link to the past presence of Afrika Korps created by Hitler to sustain the Italian campaign in North Africa with its head under the command of Rommel. The second aspect of such a campaign of denunciation of the Russians in Africa is the explanation advanced that they are extending their control of the gold and diamond mining operations. Like if all the European countries that have ruled African territories came to Africa just to offer flowers to its local and regional populations.
Besides Turkey not considered a big threat to Western interests in Africa, China on the other side is presented as the “financial trap of Africa” and accused of luring African countries into “debt default cascades” to control their mining and natural resources while building an infrastructure that favored the logistics for the exports of much-needed resources for China economy. The other parallel decried presence of China in Africa is the Road and Belt Initiative which is also defined as the “Chinese Version of the Trojan Horse” strategy.
Now Africa is placed between the Militaristic Russian Endoctrinment and the financial trade Smooth positioning of China within the most critically sought-after natural resources by the Western economies that span from oil to cobalt.
Within this tumult of accusations and denunciations, Africa remains hostage to its past and encroachment on Liberal doctrines of development that were encouraged by international financiers as the keys to opening the Gate of Free Trade and Free Enterprise. The external debt with conditionalities was presented as also the password to open the Pandora Box where these keys were stored.
Africa Position in the Balance of World Power
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This is really the typical narrative that I read about Africa from the pen “sans peine” of Analysts who have been on the top of their jobs and at the top of the agencies for whom they analyze Africa in its every aspect of making and level changing.
I let you read the narrative and see if you can detect what I have continuously noticed over and over again which is how Africa is depicted and how international and regional interferences and interventions are justified, explained and narrated with the skills to place them among descriptive approaches. Such description helps to position these incursions in Africa between events and cascades of circumstances but without having to recognize or identify the responsibility of the outsiders in the shaping of new consequent realities that are later on presented as the reasons and the demands of more interventions and localisations of foreign powers in Africa.
This kind of justification just to use one example which the presence of Islamists and their military operations have transform Africa in a sort of almost Virgin Espace and almost vacant land without any local competency or local ability to manage their own affairs. This inability is identified similarly in elected or military leaders and so on.
Africa is defined as an open door and an open territory without any presence of solid rules and rulers that can choose their own destiny and manage their own situations. So the presence of foreign interests whatever their degree of control, possession or direction of local natural resources, they are considered as one of the stabilizer. However, this is the point of view from the Western nations with consideration of their presence in Africa without taking in accompte the level of relationship they have established with the spheres of the rulers, civilians or militaries.
Within such context of interactions, Western powers still feel that one of their responsibility is the monitor, intervene, shape the directions of change and implement a local presence to watch closer the changes taken place without their consent. Their first concern remains the military actions taken by Russia and the financial, economic and trade expansion realized by China followed by India and Turkey.
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Western nations strategic objective in Africa is to displace Russian, Chinese, India and Turkey influence.
Russian strategic objective in Africa is to displace Western influence according the Western-based Analysts.
According to CRS Reports, the Russian Wagner Group is primarily active in the following African countries:
- – Central African Republic
- – Libya
- – Mali
- – Sudan
Russia’s leading trade partners in Africa are countries in North Africa, especially Egypt, Algeria and Morocco. These countries account for roughly 67% of Russia’s total trade with the continent.
China currently has military alliances with 6 African states, 4 of which are major oil suppliers: Sudan, Algeria, Nigeria and Egypt.
Here an extract of such approach and strategy applied to Africa with all the diagnosis of the reason of the African disease, the justifying ingredients causing such sickness and their origin, the prescriptions of sutting doses and the One Fit All therapeutic solutions made and manufactured and tailored to suit Africa in all its sizes of challenges, weaknesses, difficulties and more importantly Instability.
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USA and Africa in Terms of Interests
The US relies on Africa for petroleum and strategic minerals. In 2022, nearly 90% of non-energy imports from Africa came from five countries, with South Africa contributing the majority of exports. In 2021, the US imported $28.3 billion worth of goods from Sub-Saharan Africa, including mineral fuels, cocoa, vehicles, and knit apparel.
The US is interested in working with Africa on many issues, including:
The continent also has a plethora of strategic materials, such as cobalt, chromium, tantalum and more. African resources are critical to 21st century progress. Africa has a growing population, and demographers estimate that by 2050 one in four people on Earth will be African. Apr 21, 2021
- Trade: The US has helped close over 800 trade and investment deals with 47 African countries since 2021, with a total value of over $18 billion. In 2022, the US exported about $30.7 billion in goods to Africa.
- Human rights: The US is committed to human rights and democracy in Africa.
- Health: The US provides aid for Africa through initiatives like PEPFAR, the President’s Malaria Initiative, and Feed the Future.
- Security: The US is committed to peace and security in Africa.
- Climate change: The US is working with Africa on climate change.
- Innovation: The US is working with Africa on innovation.
- Youth: The US is working to increase opportunities for Africa’s youth.
State Department
U.S.-Africa: Enduring Partnership – United States Department of State The U.S. is committed to partnering with Africa on a wide range of issues, from economic development and trade to peace and security; from democracy and human rights to expanding opportunities for Africa’s youth.
FACT SHEET: U.S.- Africa Partnership in Promoting Two-Way Trade …Dec 14, 2022
- Since 2021, the U.S. Government has helped close more than 800 two-way trade and investment deals across 47 African countries for a total estimated value of over $18 billion, and the U.S. private sector has closed investment deals in Africa valued at $8.6 billion.sgp.fas.orgU.S. Assistance for Sub-Saharan Africa:
An Overview
Nov 7, 2023 — The U.S. government provides a large share of U.S. aid for Africa through multi-country initiatives focused largely or entirely on the region, such as the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the President’s Malaria Initiative, Feed the Future, Prosper Africa, and Power Africa.eventscustom.economist.com
US-Africa relationship – The Economist
Trade relations between Africa and the United States are being reshaped by policies and strategic re-engagement. America has been keen to rebuild partnerships in the region and to collaborate in areas including trade, health, security, climate change, innovation and peace.
statista.com: U.S. exports of trade goods to Africa 1997-2022 – Statista
Feb 14, 2023 — This graph shows the growth in U.S. export volume of trade goods to Africa from 1997 to 2022. In 2022, U.S. exports to Africa amounted to about 30.7 billion U.S. dollars.
The US International Development Finance Corporation also helps by providing government-backed loan guarantees to increase investor confidence.
The US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is an agreement that is due to be presented to Congress in 2025.
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