The New Trends in the U.S. Policy Toward Africa and the Change of Administrations in Washington.

1.The new trends in the U.S. policy toward Africa have recently emerged as a result of the increasing crisis of the strategy that brought to power the Republican Party about eight years ago. The polemics with the Democrats played its role in this process. In particular, there is a clear incapability of the George W. Bush Administration to cope with the "international terrorism" and to obtain recognition of the American global patterns by the bulk of the world community. 2. In Africa these negative for the U.S. policy trends took a shape of the permanent political destabilization and a lack of peace in such key countries as Somalia, Sudan and some other where in one way or another the so called international terrorists (an American term) or their local advocates (in fact the national-patriotic forces that do not accept an American globalization patterns) try to realize their right on sovereign existence in accordance to the U.N. Charter. Besides that, rich with mineral resources the African continent as in the colonial past steadily becomes a sphere of the world big states competition over these minerals control. To protect its modern interests in Africa the Administration in Washington enjoys the extra-ordinary means - such as a foundation of the Unified Combatant Command for Africa or African Command (AFRICOM). In fact the continent becomes one of the strategic spheres for the U.S. armed forces deployment in case of a global or regional conflict. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]