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Facing problems of poverty & AIDS, the Iraq war has not been a pressing concern for Africa. While many African leaders & citizens condemned terrorism, others focused on economic development & poverty relief programs as more pressing concerns as well as better approaches to prevent terrorism. This chapter examines the complex relationship between Africa & the United States mainly due to the fact that some countries -- Ethiopia & Eritrea -- have joined with the United States in support of the war in Iraq, other countries -- Libya & Sudan -- are seen as supporters of terrorism. D. Miller

The situation of African states as they enter the 1990s is generally considered to be desperate. Extreme weakness in a number of forms characterises their politics, while their economies are either stagnant or deteriorating. It is not clear what resources are relevant to solving these problems, nor how they will be acquired, although increased external assistance obviously will be needed.

In the middle 1970s, scholars and politicians agree, the Soviet Union began a major effort to penetrate Africa. After a decade of relative indifference to African developments, Soviet arms and advisers, in support of Cuban troops, poured into Angola and Ethiopia. Involvement in these two countries was supplemented by further transfers of arms to a number of other African régimes, and this seemed to signal a dramatically heightened interest in the continent.

Quantitative und qualitative Entwicklung sowie regionale Struktur der sowjetischen Waffenlieferung an Afrika: Dramatische Zunahme in der Versorgung mit Waffen bei zunehmend höherem qualitativem Standard; wechselnde regionale Schwergewichte aufgrund sich wandelnder außenpolitischer Bindungen afrikanischer Staaten; strukturelle Analyse in Abhängigkeit von Bevölkerungszahl, Wirtschaftspotential und ideologischer Orientierung. Hauptziel ist offenbar, die Verteidigungskraft von Staaten sozialistischer Prägung zu stärken. (DÜI-Hlb)

How deep and how long-lasting Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms will be remains an open question. Obstacles to the realization of some of his goals may be built into Soviet life. Soviet resources may limit economic development; industrial managers (however willing they may be) may lack the knowledge and skills necessary to operate in a market environment and continuing state orders may absorb the productive capacity of the factories and may limit the extent to which they can respond to market forces.