Ansari Africa Center

The Atlantic Council established the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in September 2009 with a mission to promote strong geopolitical partnerships with African states and to redirect US and European policy priorities towards strengthening economic growth and prosperity on the continent.

The Africa Center provides thought leadership on emerging security, geopolitical, and economic challenges in Africa through congressional testimony, publications, briefings, events, and a robust media presence. The Center assists policymakers in addressing the complex security challenges facing Africa, including the problems of state collapse; humanitarian crises; piracy; the growing nexus between extremism and criminality in West Africa and the Sahel; the ongoing political transitions in North Africa; ongoing challenges in Central and Southern Africa; and the growing impact of Islamist extremism on African polities and economies. Within the context of the Atlantic Council’s work to promote constructive US leadership and engagement in international affairs, the Center supports and collaborates with the public and private sectors in forging practical solutions to challenges and opportunities—particularly economic opportunities—in Africa. The Center seeks to persuade policymakers and the public sector of the strategic importance of Africa while analyzing the efforts of new actors on the continent—including China, India, Brazil and Turkey—and their impact on US and European interests. In its newest initiative, to be launched in 2013, the Center will inform decisions about participating in Africa's economic and commercial opportunities by engaging in a collaborative partnership to create an innovative real-time African Investment Scorecard.

Over the course of the past year, the Africa Center has provided an important platform for assessing and revising US policy toward Sudan and South Sudan and has been at the cutting edge of analysis on the growth of extremism in the Sahel and West Africa as well as the fragile progress being made in Somalia. In addition to ongoing work on these specific geopolitical challenges, the Center’s programming focuses on five policy initiatives: Influencing African Security Policy, African Prosperity, Emerging Economic Powers in Africa, Conversations with African Leaders, and Leaders of Tomorrow.

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NEW LOCATION

The Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center are located in the Atlantic Council’s Satellite Office at 888 16th Street, NW | 8th Floor | Washington, DC 20005.

J. Peter Pham in Diplomatic Courier Magazine on Africa’s Buoyant Economic Prospects

July 20, 2012

In “Africa Emergent,” the cover article in the just-published July/August issue of the global affairs magazine Diplomatic Courier, J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, identifies five trends driving the continent’s buoyant economic prospects and, ultimately, transforming its social and political landscape.

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Africa in the “New, New World”

July 19, 2012

J. Peter Pham, director of the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, contributed a chapter on Africa to the comprehensive study on the future of the United States European Command (EUCOM) recently concluded by the National Defense University’s Center for Transatlantic Security and the Atlantic Council.

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IntelBrief: China’s Evolving Engagement in Africa

July 18, 2012

In the eighth in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center director J. Peter Pham looks at the shifting contours of Sino-African relations.

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Briefing on Somalia by UN Monitoring Group

July 17, 2012

The Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a breakfast briefing and discussion today on the political and security situation in Somalia and the Greater Horn of Africa by the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea.

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Analysis: The Malian Dilemma

July 16, 2012

In “El dilema de Mali,” an analysis for Casa África, the Spanish Government’s institute for promoting relations with Africa, J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, examines the challenges faced by the international community in coping with the virtual collapse of the West African country.

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Rudolph Atallah, J. Peter Pham Address AFRICOM Conference

July 12, 2012

Senior fellow Rudolph Atallah and J. Peter Pham, director the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, were featured speakers at the 5th Africa Command Academic Symposium, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 9-12.

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IntelBrief: Perpetual Conflict in the Sudans

July 11, 2012

In the seventh in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton provides an update on the border dispute between Sudan and South Sudan.

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J. Peter Pham Debates US Military's Africa Role on the RT Television Network’s “Cross Talk”

July 09, 2012

J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was a guest on the Russian state-owned television network RT’s flagship “Cross Talk” program, hosted by Peter Lavelle.

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NDU Publishes French and Portuguese Translations of Boko Haram Report by J. Peter Pham

July 05, 2012

The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) at the National Defense University has published French and Portuguese translations of a report by J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, on the Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

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Rudolph Atallah Testifies before House Panel on Mali Rebellion

June 29, 2012

Rudolph Atallah, senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, testified at a House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on “The Tuareg Revolt and the Mali Coup.”

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