Samar Al-Bulushi is a PhD candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at Yale University, with research interests in transnational governance, political economy, and critical security studies in East Africa.
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.