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Crisis in Africa

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Crisis in Africa: Battleground of East and West
Arthur Gavshon

The great power rivalry surging across Africa today is a heritage of those European statesmen who a century ago in Berlin ruled straight lines on school atlases to carve up a continentand whole nations with itinto tidy colonial compartments. With African states searching for a political identity in the post-colonial era, the superpowers are now jostling for influence. For the United States and its allies, the goal is to preserve political, economic, and strategic dominance over much of a continent known to possess still unmeasured mineral and other resources on which many key Western industries rely. For the Soviet Union, the goal is to challenge that dominance, perhaps by implanting seeds of socialism in soil left fallow over a century of political neglect, or by seeking to deny the West access to Africa's economic resources and strategic facilities.

Drawing upon his experience as a diplomatic correspondent and his access to world leaders on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Mr. Gavshon sets out here the declared and covert aims of the leading contestants in the contemporary struggle for presence, position, and power in Africa.

Arthur Gavshon has been writing about international affairs since serving with South Africa's volunteer army during World War II. As a diplomatic correspondent, he has attended most post-war summit conferences, built up a wide network of diplomatic and political friends and sources, and interviewed and talked informally with successive heads of government in Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia.

For Laura, Helena and Evelyn who accepted everything with patience

Crisis in Africa

Battleground of East and West

Arthur Gavshon

First published 1981 by Westview Press, Inc.

Published 2018 by Routledge
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Copyright 1981 by Arthur Gavshon

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Gavshon, Arthur L.
Crisis in Africa.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. AfricaForeign relations1960- 2. AfricaPolitics and government1960- 3. AfricaStrategic aspects. 4. CommunismAfrica. I. Title.
DT30.5.G38 1983 327.6 83-17120
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01534-3 (hbk)

Contents

Guide

Figures

1. 1. Essential United States foreign trade routes
2. 2. Soviet involvement in the Third World: economic and military aid and naval presence

Tables

1. 1. Soviet military and economic aid to the Third World

: Essential United States foreign trade routes source: The Soviet Union and the Third World: A Watershed in Great Power Policy?, a report to the Committee on International Relations, US House of Representatives, by the Senior Specialists' Division of the Congressional Research Service, 8 May 1977.

: Soviet involvement in the Third World: economic and military aid (shaded area - see also Table 1, page 14) and naval presence SOURCE: The Soviet Union and the Third World: A Watershed in Great Power Policy?, a report to the Committee on International Relations, US House of Representatives, by the Senior Specialists' Division of the Congressional Research Service, 8 May 1977.

Soviet military aid (1955-74) and economic aid (1954-76) to the Thirc World (in million $)

Recipient	Countries	Military Aid, 1955-74	Economic Aid, 1954-76	Total Military and Economic Aid
Asia	Afghanistan	490	1,251	1,741
Bangladesh	35	300	335
Burma	negl.	16	16
Cambodia	10	25	35
Cyprus	25	25
India	1,400	1,943	3,343
Indonesia	1,095	114	1,209
Iran	850	750	1,600
Iraq	1,600	699	2,299
Laos	5	1	6
Lebanon	3	3
Maldives	negl.	negl.
Nepal	20	20
Pakistan	60	652	712
Sri Lanka	10	95	105
Syria	2,100	417	2,517
Turkey	1,180	1,180
Yemen (Aden)	80	39	119
Yemen (Sana)	80	98	178
Africa	Algeria	350	715	1,065
Angola	10a	10a
Benin	5	5
Cameroon	8	8
Capc Verdc	b	b
Central African Republic	2	2
Chad	10	10
Congo	15	14	29
Egypt	3,450	1,300	4,750
Equatorial Guinea	2	1	3
Ethiopia	105	105
Ghana	10	93	103
Guinea	35	201	236
Guinea-Bissau	14	14
Kenya	48	48
Mali	10	86	96
Mauritania	5	5
Morocco	45	98	143
Mozambique	2	2
Niger	2	2
Nigeria	10	7	17
Rwanda	1	1
Sao Tome and Principe	b	b
Senegal	9	9
Sierra Leone	negl.	28	28
Somalia	115	154	269
Sudan	65	64	129
Tanzania	5	20	25
Tunisia	82	82
Uganda	20	16	36
Upper Volta	1	l
Zambia	6	6
Latin America	Argentina	245	245
Bolivia	31	31

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