The Executive Producer of the Pan-African podcast, Panel 54, Ndu Martin Minns, has thrown her weight behind US President Donald Trump’s shortterm targeted campaigns and closer cooperation with local authorities in the fight against terrorism.

In a statement endorsing the US Security Strategy for Africa, Minns described the approach as a sharp departure from past policies centred on long-term troop deployments and expansive nation-building efforts.

She praised the new strategy for rejecting open-ended interventions and governance reconstruction in favour of a more focused counterterrorism model.

Minns said the strategy adopts a surgical approach to counterterrorism worldwide, emphasising targeted campaigns with clear timelines and specific objectives.

Under this model, US troop deployments will be tied to definite targets aimed at eliminating threats, followed by swift withdrawal.

She explained: “In President Trump’s words, the policy marks ‘a return to commonsense and peace through strength’, while rebuilding bilateral counterterrorism relations with African governments.”