AFRICOM: The Pentagon's First Direct Military Intervention In Africa

The U.S. has intensified military involvement in Africa over the past seven years with such projects as the Pan Sahel Initiative (PSI), launched by the State Department but which deployed US Army Special Forces with the Special Operations Command Europe to Mali and Mauritania among other locations. U.S. military personnel are still engaged in the counterinsurgency wars in Mali and Niger against Tuareg rebels.

The Pan Sahel Initiative was succeeded by the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative (TSCTI) in late 2004 which has American military personnel assigned to eleven African nations: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.


FRICOM: The Pentagon's First Direct Military Intervention In Africa

African Development Hindered by Vast U.S. Corporate Interests in Continent's Land, Resources

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As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Nigeria today, we turn to the issue of US corporate interests in Africa’s natural resources. Clinton’s seven-country tour of Africa includes both Nigeria and Angola, the continent’s top two oil producers. We speak with Amy Barry of Global Witness, an anti-corruption watchdog that focuses on natural resources.

African Development Hindered by Vast U.S. Corporate Interests in Continent's Land, Resources
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Africa- An economic agenda

A lecture of his is available here. Beware, it's about one and a half hour. There is a small reference at the end of what he calls 'banking pimps', those bankers in England, Switzerland, the U.S., etc., that are profiting from the billions of ill-gotten gains, securely tucked away, of Third World strongmen.

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