A spate of coups by military leaders across Western and Central Africa — including Gabon — suggests that the US is ceding control in the continent to China and Russia.
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo two weeks ago, it was the eighth coup in three years in Western and Central Africa.
What happens in Africa matters to the rest of the world. But it’s of special import to Western countries, particularly the United States. The goal has been as much to defeat the militias as well as prevent copy-cats from rising alongside them. And their new military leaders have made clear that decades of meddling from Paris led to the current upheaval. Russia and Burkina Faso flags are waved by a small group of protesters as they protest against the Economic Community of West African States.In fact, there is an act of Congress — Section 7008 – which states that the U.S. will not support any country where a democratically-elected government has been ousted by the military.
“We’ve had a lot of soaring rhetoric about being Africa’s partner, but when it comes to implementing policy it’s a different ballgame,” one Republican Hill staffer told me in frustration at the reluctance by the Biden team to call Niger’s situation a coup.
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