Online Africa Policy Forum

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Africa Program
Online Africa Policy Forum
Each week, the Africa Policy Forum publishes an essay on a significant Africa policy topic and then opens that essay for comment and discussion in order to facilitate the Africa policy debate.

The Africa Program hosts the CSIS Online Africa Policy Forum in order to facilitate a debate on U.S. policy toward Africa. Each week, the Forum publishes an essay on a significant Africa policy topic and then opens that essay for comment and discussion. The CSIS Africa Program encourages participation by the broadest possible community of people with an interest in U.S. Africa policy, whether in Africa itself, the United States, Europe, China, or elsewhere.

At the Forum, you can read our latest articles, debate the authors, submit your own essay, and review upcoming Africa events in Washington, D.C.

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  • Nov 6, 2009

    By Stephen Ellis

    Two years have gone by since the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) sounded an alarm about West Africa's role in the international drug trade. In 2007, the UNODC published a report identifying the Portuguese-speaking state of Guinea-Bissau in particular as an emerging narco-state that provided a convenient halfway stop for Latin American drug traders exporting to Europe.

  • Oct 21, 2009

     By Jennifer Cooke and J. Stephen Morrison

    After months of internal debate, mounting impatience among U.S. activist groups, and rapidly approaching deadlines in the Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the Obama administration unveiled its strategy toward Sudan this week, calling for frank dialogue with the government in Khartoum and promising “calibrated steps to bolster support for positive change and to discourage backsliding.”