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Nigeria Navy officers at the induction of acquired warships and locally built Seaward Defence Boat in Lagos, 2021. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Africa’s militaries have always relied on imported weapons: why a shift to homegrown defence is now under way

Across Africa, governments are finding ways to reduce dependence on foreign arms suppliers and building capabilities they can control, maintain and adapt.
Greenland’s cryolite mine, essential for U.S. airplane production, was below sea level and vulnerable to Nazi sabotage. Reginald Wilcox, ca. 1941. Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College

In World War II’s dog‑eat‑dog struggle for resources, a Greenland mine launched a new world order

Strategic resources have been central to the American-led global system for decades, as a historian explains. But US actions toward Greenland today are different.

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