Samar Al-Bulushi is on the faculty at UC Irvine and author of War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, forthcoming from Stanford University Press.
The US has long outsourced meddling in Haiti to Global South countries. Recently Kenya has agreed to take over leading a US-backed multinational police intervention there — justifying its own “stabilization” mission with Pan-Africanist rhetoric.
The Biden administration recently announced that it’s redeploying troops to Somalia and green-lighting drone strikes in the East African country. The last thing Somalis need is more war, especially one waged in the name of the US “war on terror.”
A long history of multinational corporate exploitation and political corruption crippled West Africa’s response to the Ebola epidemic.