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Cameron Hudson

Cameron Hudson

Cameron Hudson is a senior fellow in the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He was previously a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, where his research focused on the democratic transitions and conflict in the Horn of Africa.

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Cameron Hudson: This story is wild and is a real...
Cameron Hudson
04, September #WarSpillover

Cameron Hudson: This story is wild and is a real...

This story is wild and is a real reflection on the callousness of US policy. "Four Cubans, one Brazilian and one Cameroonian refused to disembark in the Liberian capital Monrovia on 20 August; some of them were allegedly assaulted by ICE agents, who returned them to the plane and promised they would be taken back to the US. A few hours later, however, they were dropped off in another African country: Equatorial Guinea, one of the world’s most repressive and corrupt regimes, where armed men took them to a former luxury hotel turned detention centre in the capital, Malabo, where they have been held ever since."
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Cameron Hudson: Just like in the Horn of Africa...
Cameron Hudson
22, July #WarSpillover

Cameron Hudson: Just like in the Horn of Africa...

Just like in the Horn of Africa, the Trump Administration has no strategy for the Sahel. Except the Sahel is even less strategic to US interests than the Horn. So the idea of expanding our game of terrorist whack-a-mole from Somalia, to Nigeria, to Mali might play to a MAGA audience, make us appear tough, and might possibly undermine Russia in the region (which has never been a stated objective of this Administration), it risks making the US a target for these terror groups, encourage them to deepen ties AQ and IS core groups outside the Sahel, and send us down a slippery slope of escalation that neither the French nor Russians escaped from without serious damage to their pride and reputation.
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Cameron Hudson: Sudan has not been forgotten...
Cameron Hudson
16, July #WarSpillover

Cameron Hudson: Sudan has not been forgotten...

"Sudan has not been forgotten so much as politically abandoned." I think many Western officials would argue that this isn't true. I see their statements, warnings, condemnations and even sanctions in response to what is happening daily in Sudan. But, as long as those same countries don't take the political decisions that are available to them, namely using their political and financial relationship with the UAE as essential leverage in bringing about an end to the war, then the accusation of political abandonment will apply.
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