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The attacks on US soil on September 11, 2001, coupled with the rise of militant transnational Islamism, have prompted both the Bush Administration and the US Congress to reassess foreign policy in Africa and to begin to give considerable attention to Africa’s Muslim populations and it’s failed and failing states. Since 2001, the size of US diplomatic missions in sub-Saharan African countries with large Muslim populations has increased. Presently, there are 45 active embassies in sub-Saharan Africa, including 16 new compounds built since 2001.