IS PENTAGON'S PRESENCE GOOD FOR AFRICA ?

 " We entered the region in force. We were looking, in particular, at how the U.S. strategy toward the Sahel is working. That's a strategy that we put in place about a year ago to try to bring more coherence to our efforts to support increased security," ( Victoria Nuland, 2022 )

After the start of the "war against terrorism", the Pentagon also appeared in Africa, managed until then by Europeans. The "results" were not long in coming: in the last 15 years, there have been 7 coups, led by local officers trained in the United States by the Pentagon (in Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso),eight if we include the recent military coup from Niger.

" Technically, the United States is not at war in Africa. But the practice and terminology of the US-led War on Terror has changed, making the US military’s involvement more difficult to trace. In the past 15 years, the US government has quietly expanded its military footprint across the African continent, engaging in “special operations” with African troops in the name of security. Since the 2007 establishment of the Africa Command (AFRICOM), the defense department’s regional combatant command for Africa, the US has adopted a military-first approach to securing its interests on the continent. This has had disastrous effects. Whether it’s the seemingly endless (undeclared) war against the militant group Al-Shabaab in Somalia or the wave of coups (in many cases led by US-trained officers), AFRICOM has contributed to the very instability it claims to address." ( Samar al-Bulushi)

In other words,  according to Nuland, all the coups mentioned above - directed against democratically elected governments - have had the objective of "bringing more coherence" in supporting "security efforts" in the Sahel region. In reality, the US military presence by proxy in Africa was the root cause for the spread of military anarchy in  Sahel.