American Africa. Which continent countries have not been influenced by China and the Russian Federation and support Ukraine

This is the first diplomatic visit of the highest representative level of the United States to Africa over a long period. Barack Obama, who visited Kenya in 2015, visited Africa. After that, Washington's African policy seemed to have stopped and had a new life only in 2022. Over the past year, Africa has begun to visit US toplines and even restored the work of the US-Africa summit at the highest level.

In Rome, at the beginning of March, a meeting of the military leaders of 43 African countries with the US military took place to discuss weapons supply and joint military exercises. The focus has already written about the interests of the Russian Federation in Sudan and various forms of its penetration into other states of the Black Continent. Our materials also covered the economic expansion in Africa of the People's Republic of China.

Both of these sides are playing a map of the resaity and complexes of these states related to their colonial past. China uses the attractiveness of infrastructure projects, Russia traditionally works with those for whom power is an end in itself and they are ready to protect it at any cost. However, despite stereotypes, there is also a powerful group of countries with a democratic form of government and developed economy in Africa.

Such states are available on both sides of the Sater (Sahal is a transitional territory between the desert and the savannas). Of course, these concepts are relative and far from ideal, but the world is not static, and in the development process they will be able to reach significant heights - unless, usually do not go out of the course. Of course, African democracy in their policies focus on the United States. The American diplomat R.

Stit distinguishes 16 democratic states on the African continent who obviously have the potential to cooperate with the United States. However, the Russian-Ukrainian war carried out a clearer watershed between the poles of force. And we see that Russian aggression was condemned by 29 African countries. The truth is that not all democracy is on the US side - we have already written about South Africa and its history of relations with different geopolitical poles.

Also, not all authoritarian regimes are in a hurry to support the PRC and the Russian Federation. Ghana is one of the most developed, stable and democratic countries in the region. This country is one of the three states of the continent, which most often became a member of the UN Security Council (it is now). Of course, the political system in this state is not perfect - from time to time there are military coups. However, everything is known in comparison.

The former British colony, Ghana, works closely with the United States and the United Kingdom in military and defensive spheres. Collaboration with powerful hegemon allows Ghani to keep her sovereignty in an extremely simple environment in the region. So around this state in its neighbors there is a notorious PEC "Wagner". The Ghana herself is still successfully opposed to the entry into its territory of illegal armed formations.

Another common member of the UN Security Council is Nigeria - the largest economy of Africa. The key export item of the country (therefore the basis of the revenue part of its budget) is oil. However, the increase in revenues from energy exports is offset by the explosive population growth, which has increased by the last century by dozens of times. Nigeria failed and maintain sovereignty over all its territories. Within the state there is an Islamist terrorist group of Boko Haram.

Therefore, it is important for the state to establish your security component to balance the economic development and other aspects of the state. In the east of the continent, Kenya is located not far from African horn. The state plays a very important role in the transport connection of the region, because it is through its port of Mombas that the logistics of goods (including food from Eastern Europe) in other neighboring states of the region that do not have access to the sea.

Kenya is one of Africa's most developed countries. With GDP, almost $ 110 billion, the country's foreign trade reaches about $ 21 billion and although the largest turnover of the country with China, the Director of the African Program of the Carneg Zinab Usman Foundation pays attention to the country's foreign trade and investment. And here the situation is quite different, because Kenya mainly imports raw materials from China, but from the United States Nairobi plans to develop production.

Kenya hopes that US technology companies that will be forced to move their production from China will finally place it in their country. However, Kenya's transport leadership intends to questioned Tanzania, which also has a powerful Dar-Salm seaport. The reason is the protests in Kenya, which are triggered by a significant increase in the cost of food - the echo of Russian aggression against Ukraine.

Protests that have been ongoing for the last few weeks are worried about carriers, which is not mind to use "good neighbors", kindly offering them an alternative - their logistics services. Tanzania has been trying to promote Dar-Salm as a logistics center for many years, but the last year has become a turning point in the country's foreign policy.

After the death of the previous Pro, President John Magufuli, the new leader of the country Hasan Samia sharply spread the country's course towards the United States. American diplomat Michelle Gavin hopes that democratic shifts in Tanzania, which are taking place in the country for the last two years, will finally contribute to the establishment of fruitful cooperation between countries and spreading their interaction to the whole region.

It was for the state to work in this direction that the state was visited by the US Vice president Kamala Harris. Michelle Gavin's same thought about Zambia. In this country, the power has also recently changed, which has completely deployed the country's foreign policy. The expert believes that Zambia can be a showcase for many countries in the crossroads. The country should demonstrate how the democratic structure significantly improves the security situation.

The Senior Researcher at the African Program Christopher Vangus considers democratic Zambia one of the key links in the global "green transition", because the country has many valuable resources. He also hopes that the country will become a reliable ally in Africa. One of the most reliable allies of the United States in the region is the Kingdom of Morocco. The state with a multi -hundred -year history only in the XX century. For a short time she was colonial dependence on France and Spain.

And then in the form of a protectorate/dominion. In the end, having restored full independence, the kingdom did not follow the mainstream currents and, unlike most Arab countries, took a pro -American position in the Cold War. Perhaps a role was played by the fact that Morocco became the first state, which was recognized by the United States back in 1776. It was the first visit to the continent of the US President. It was FD Roosevelt within the framework of the Casablan Conference of 1943.

And possibly, the reasons are more everyday and prosaic. Rabat has claimed the land of the Western Sahara since the middle of the XX century. And the local forces of national resistance focused on Moscow. So Morocco was understood and, as history showed, it was correct. Morocco has now been recognized by the US sovereignty of the kingdom over this territory, successfully "selling" the normalization of relations with Israel within the limits of Abraham.

Rabat is a reliable ally of Washington in the region. States cooperate in trade and military sphere. Morocco maintains the balance in the region, acting as opposed to Algeria, small and other anti -American forces in the region. It is clear that it is beneficial to the United States. The Kingdom, having enlisted such powerful support, claims political and economic leadership in the West Africa region.

Rabat invests in the infrastructure of the southern neighbors, thus penetrating the area "south of Sahal". Typically, cooperation with Washington puts certain responsibilities on the state that are unbearable for many. It is the preservation of democratic principles at a certain level.

Here, the leading dynasty of the kingdom showed true miracles of political flexibility when during the Arab spring 2011 gave the parliament some of his powers, while maintaining strategic control over the state power. Thus, the monarchy has preserved both the power and the powerful ally, the fruits of this decision still reaping. In December 2022 it became known that Morocco is ready to supply weapons to Ukraine.

Most likely, the rabbat will have a rather symbolic and diplomatically important decision of the privilege when modernizing his own army. These states are "diplomatic pillars" on which the US influence in the region is based. As can be seen from the brief description, they are all quite self -sufficient and lead a variety of ratings. Again, as during the Cold War, the United States "take the quality" of the Allies.

However, voting at the sessions of the UN General Assembly on the Russian-Ukrainian War (namely it is now a major feature of diplomatic division of the world) shows that there are no problems with the number of African countries in the USA (Ukraine supports Ukraine (most 29 from 54 in October 2022 year). Africa is a continent on which humanity has begun its historical path. A region with significant unfulfilled potential and predicted the future.

In reality, this set of pathetic expressions is a considerable list of problems that no one even tries to solve. Before the war, Ukraine ignored African policy - we do not even have diplomatic missions in most states of the continent. However, the focus on Africa became one of the key (usually after the Armed Forces) in the conclusion of a "grain agreement", which allowed us to unlock our seaports. In 2022, the first tour of Africa of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry took place.

Going to the African continent can be one of the positive consequences of the Ukrainian victory, which we all expect. Despite the fact that Africa is often called the "black" continent, in fact almost a third of its territory is inhabited by Arabs. They live mainly in the world's largest Sahara Desert. It is on this principle that the continent is shared by the US Department of State Department in its official documents.

The "area north of the Sahable" is a cradle of human civilization, it has been at the center of human history for most of the time, and only in the last centuries it has been drawn to the background by more agile countries in Europe and North America. The past "area south of the Sahal" is known much less. It is believed that the first creature emerged, which can be called man, but about the civilizational past of this region of the world is much less known.

These processes are actively explored right now, but this is not so significant, because Africa does not live in the past, but confidently and with great hopes of the future. And what its future will be in the future of the next generation is being decided right now. Authoritarian regimes traditionally rely on elites - a narrow group of people who make decisions. The United States also act on the broad social masses, promising good to them.

Given the US diplomatic activity in recent years, it can be said that economic expansion of the PRC and military Russian Federation in the region has been a consequence of lack of competition. The United States has not started their battle for Africa. And now preparation is underway for this beginning. The US has already created a financial fund for Africa countries of $ 55 billion, which is larger than Russian ($ 12. 5 billion) and Chinese ($ 40 billion) combined.