The US and Russia’s proxy war is bleeding Africa | Opinions

On September 14, The Washington Post revealed that the United States has quietly opened talks focused on counterterrorism with Mali’s governing junta. Last month, House and Senate delegations visited Bamako. In July, Deputy Assistant Secretary Will Stevens, the State Department’s point man for West Africa, also met Malian officials. A few months earlier, between February 19 and 21, United States Africa Command – the Pentagon’s headquarters for operations across the continent – had…