Who is the U.S. most trusted ally in Africa?

[quadriga]

Historically? Militarily? Economically? I can only come up with South Africa, but I don't think we are that close, any other countries? AFRICOM has got me thinking of this, I don't even think the new command will be based on the continent.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Egypt? Or is that not "african enough" for you?

[Posteritatis]

5. That's actually a good question

People like to treat the entire continent as a monolith, but you might as well be in different planets once you cross the Sahel.

It probably is Egypt, at least as far as a quick answer goes, but there's a whole lot of Africa in Africa and I'm not sure it's a useful idea to treat the continent as a unit instead of two or (more likely) more.

[BlooInBloo]

6. :) As long as somebody gets the gist.

[quadriga]

7. AFRICOM treats the continent that way.

Except for the one country you mention, Egypt, which is in CENTCOM

[kevinbgoode]

2. Liberia. . .

and that is because we created the country, didn't we?

[quadriga]

3. They just had a horrible civil war.

I don't even know who is in charge there anymore. Is it still Taylor?

[Juche]

4. he's in prison now

I was going to say Liberia since it was founded by slaves, but I honestly have no idea.

I doubt Egypt since they used to cause problems for Israel and LBJ tried to trick the nation into a war against them by sinking the USS Liberty.

I don't know. I barely know 25 countries in the region.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/africa.php

[mitchtv]

8. Morocco? Ethiopia

Kenya?