Pay Attention to Africa’s Strategic Importance, Policy Panel Concludes

..”We are very concerned that we reach a broad audience and say: listen, pay attention, things are happening in Africa – the role of terrorism, competition with the Chinese, the extraordinary new importance of Africa when it comes to energy resources, a growing importance.”

..”And if we don’t take a strategic view and be building African peace-keeping capabilities and competing more effectively for energy resources and working more on good governance and supporting the Africans who are working on that, then five or ten years from now, we can be saying to ourselves, looking back on this period, why didn’t we take a more strategic view to try to head off the problems you can anticipate five or ten years from now.”

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