Under Joe Biden, America struggles to reassert itself in Africa

After the coup there an American delegation led by Molly Phee, the state department’s hapless Africa chief, was given short shrift by the generals. “It was a humiliation,” says an American expert on the Sahel. Worse was to come early this month, when the commander of US Africa Command said America would have to withdraw most of its smaller force from Chad “as part of an ongoing review of our security co-operation”.