US Military Presence In Africa In One Chart

Source: The FT Last week President Obama explained "Africa also happens to be one of the continents where America is most popular," and added that the US is "deeply interested in working with Africa, not to extract natural resources alone." We suspect, one glance at the following map answers the why (so popular) and the what (aside from natural resources)...Johnnie Carson, a veteran US diplomat in Africa and assistant secretary of state for the continent until last year, warns...
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