This article discusses the increasing use of private military companies (PMCs) in United States’ security policy in Africa, and examines this phenomenon in relation to the US’ various military training programmes on the continent. We argue that the increasing use of PMCs in US security...

In the autumn of 2020 professor and director of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Kwesi Aning, visited DIIS. He has had a long career in both academia and policymaking with the African Union and the United Nations, and he has written extensively on security dynamics and...