More Western Help Urged to Fight Al-Qaida Threat in Africa

An Africa expert said Sunday’s attack on Ivory Coast should be viewed as an attempt by al-Qaida to undermine that country’s emerging political stability and economic growth. J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the US-based Atlantic Council, an international affairs think tank, said it would be a tragedy if all the progress that Cote d’Ivoire has made over the last four years is derailed by al-Qaida. He said the United States and Ivory Coast’s former colonial power France...

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