Middle East & Africa | A strategy on autopilot

How America deals with Africa, despite Donald Trump

The president is not interested. American diplomats must do their best

|WASHINGTON, DC

THESE DAYS it is notable when both Republicans and Democrats oppose a foreign policy of Donald Trump’s in strident unison. When it was reported that Mark Esper, the secretary of defence, was set to remove American forces from the Sahel, where jihadists have been wreaking havoc across a vast swathe of Africa, members of Congress reacted angrily together, arguing vigorously against such a course.

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “A strategy on autopilot”

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