“It was pretty unthinkable ten years ago,” says an Angolan cabinet minister in his office, where the waft of the air conditioner ripples both his Hermès tie and the Soviet-inspired national flag behind him. Like everyone in Luanda, the capital, he is talking about Joe Biden’s expected arrival on December 2nd, the first trip to sub-Saharan Africa by an American president since 2015—and the first by any to Angola.
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As the security landscape evolves at lightning speed, concerns are mounting over the Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) possibly...
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