THE discovery of oil in Africa would seem to have begun to reinsert the continent into the dynamics of world trade and has resuscitated considerable interest on the part of the US government. In the autumn of 2002, the British magazine The Economist made an accusation to that effect that was echoed by officials and researchers.

In an interview for Asia Times Online published in the fall of 2003, US security analyst Michael Klare, the author of Resource Wars, warned of Washingtonâ??s potential implication on the African continent. When asked where the next oil conflict after Iraq could emerge, Klare responded, "I think in Africa, the situation there is heating up."

To illustrate the basis for such statements, in 2001 a report by Vice President Richard Cheney on US national energy policy affirmed that Africa would be "one of the fastest-growing sources of oil and gas for the United States."

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