In failing to describe the context in which African Union forces operate, a recent Washington Post article misrepresented their brave efforts to respond to attacks by al-Shabab.

President Obama is right to send troops to advise African forces going after the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.

Hope that the Global Fund's commendable effort to unearth corruption and improve its logistics is giving way to fear that money and drugs are continuing to be donated to corrupt actors--a major perversion of donor intent.

More negotiators and mediators, more "peacekeeping" forces, more non-governmental organizations (especially of the humanitarian and human rights varieties), and more media attention are all conventionally thought to be unmitigated good things.

Review of The Battle for Zimbabwe, by Geoff Hill,andThe Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives, by Robert Guest.

Those sincerely concerned with America’s security should reject utterly the notion that bin Laden’s death will allow us to declare "mission accomplished" and withdraw from the Middle East, and the world.

Despite outward appearances of crisis, the prospects for sustained peace and security in the Great Lakes region of Africa are better today than at any time since the mid-1980s.

Review of The Shackled Continent by Robert Guest.