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DTIC ADA448471: Security and Stability in the Gulf of Guinea

This paper discuss some major challenges inherent to security and stability in the Gulf of Guinea, a large area encompassing 23 countries: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Five major periods characterize the history of the Gulf: prehistory; iron age; slave trading kingdoms, Muslim wars, and colonial invasion; colonial period; and the curre…