This week on Bombshell, Alice Hunt Friend joins us to talk all things Africa and civ-mil. We dive into U.S. operations in Niger and the Kenyan elections reboot. Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping get new mandates while preparing for the president’s big trip to Asia, along with the rest of us. And we all wait for the fallout from the Mueller indictments. Episode Reading: Alice Hunt Friend, "?" Center for Strategic and International Studies Alice Hunt Friend, "," The Hill Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung, "," Washington Post Thomas E. Ricks, "," Foreign Policy Loren DeJonge Schulman, "," The Atlantic David Dollar, "," Brookings Institution Simon Denyer, "," Washington Post Robert Burns, "," NBC News Vikram Singh and Lindsey Ford, "," Foreign Policy Daniel Kliman and Zack Cooper, "," Foreign Policy Mike Duncan, The Storm Before the Storm  Erik Pedersen, "'," Deadline