As Nick notes, the ‘light footprint’ claimed for US Africa Command (AFRICOM) in briefing documents (above) resolves into a vast network of bases across the continent. You can find more inAdam MooreandJames Walker‘s “Tracing the US military’s presence in Africa” inGeopolitics21 (2016)...
mountains typically host relict forests that are remnants of a widespread forest belt, which, prior to the uplift and long-term aridification of the East African plateaus, stretched across most of the continent2,3,4. As the global climate began to cool in...
but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim that “Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today.” InTomorrow’s Battle...
In continent Posted on May 6, 2016 Over at the LA Review of Books Will Govinsky has a fine essay on Eye in the Sky called ‘The beauty of an imperial dilemma‘. It begins with the image of a French gunboat firing shots into the African rainforest from Joseph Conrad‘s Heart of Dar...
These German cities were simply coordinates on a map of Europe, the first relatively near, involving around six hours of flying, the second depressingly distant, involving some eight or nine hours of flying. Both sets of coordinates were at the centre of areas shaded deep red on our maps to...
in this region, and (3) to infer the potential impacts of environmental change on the biodiversity and composition of the sub-Saharan Africa top-soil microbiome. We hypothesize that the soil microbial ecology will be significantly distinct across the different regions of the sub-continent and will...
While you might think this is improbable, or impossible, consider for a minute that every person outside of Africa today carries some percentage of Neanderthal DNA, and all Europeans also carry Denisovan DNA. Our DNA does indeed have staying power over the millennia, especially once an entire ...
a_ccount of his remarkable journey, wb1ch JS unpublished, ts to be called "How I crossed Africa," instead of" The King's Rifle." THE following telegram has been received in St. Petersbur!! from Col. Prejevalsky :-"Have finished my travel. Rich lec_tions : 2000 birds, many mammals...
of civilians across the United States. Its root causes lie in the poverty and squalor of distant countries. Its spread must be stopped at its region of origin — in this case, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in West Africa — just as both the Bush and Obama administrations were ...
the Him Shinshar Weapons Storage Site, ‘the primary location of Syrian sarin and precursor production equipment’, and 7 km away the Him Shinshar Chemical Weapons Bunker, ‘both a chemical weapons equipment storage facility and an important command post.’ The Pentagon issued this map of the ...