Africa Monitor Intelligence
US Marginalization of African Politics Unchanged With New “Africa Man”
With the departure of key congressmen specializing in African affairs, many of whom played active roles during the Cold War, on the Republican side, there remain CHRIS SMITH, who chairs the Africa subcommittee on the Foreign Relations Committee, and RILEY MOORE, both with ties to evangelical groups in the US and on the African continent, and who played an active role in the US intervention in Nigeria in favor of Christian communities and in the joint military operation with Nigerian special forces on 16.MAY, which resulted in the elimination of an Islamic State commander, AL-MINUKI.