... questions are addressed to Washington.
What sounds alarming is that beyond the scope of the current security agenda, European experts generally don’t see Moscow making any significant contribution to the future of the MENA. They write a lot about China, about the European Union, about Africa, but not about Russia. Analyzing the long-term challenges of the development of the region, the authors mention Russia only twice — as one of the major food exporters to the region and as an important partner in the development of nuclear energy ...
Russia, China, the five members of European Union (France, Germany, the UK, Spain, and Italy) take the 66 percent of international arms transfer in the period of 2009~2013 (Siemon T. Wezeman, 2014). Compared with the 2004~2008, the percentage of arms importers of major weapon regional, Africa increase from 7% to 9% in the same period (see the below). As recipient, the poorly limited defense budget in African continent,...
... Act, which provides palpable trade preferences to African countries complying with
certain political and economic conditions
. Washington plans to expand the Act, which has already helped
increase African trade
; as in 2011 the United States became
Africa's third largest trading partner
after the European Union and China.
The U.S.A. is worried by the growing clout of new actors on the continent and is working to counteract the process for protection of its own interests
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, among other things through its
African Command
set up in October 2008. This has been ...