“Given the extremely low ‘hard power’ of Cabo Verde, it is somewhat puzzling that the United States has suddenly decided to list the African archipelago as an ‘anchor state’, joining the ranks of Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Cabo Verde is neither economically, commercially, nor financially significant to the West African sub-region.” On July … More America’s African ‘Anchor States’: Cabo Verde | by Abel Djassi Amado