Africa Refuses to Allow More Nations.

Across the African continent, war is a constant fact of life, individual nations may be quite stable at any given time, they might be entirely safe, but across the region, other nations are practically guaranteed to be in conflict with each other or with themselves.

At the time that this episode was written, a brutal civil war was raging across Sudan and the African Horn, and South Sudan were on the brink of restarting two of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. The entire Sahel, a fair portion of Nigeria and Somalia, and the northern reaches of Mozambique were each overrun with jarred insurgencies.

A proxy war over precious resources was taking place in the eastern Congo, several nations were reeling in the aftermath of recent attempted or successful military coups, and others were fresh off some of the bloodiest anti -distant crackdowns of the 2020s.