“The speculative report is an utterly false and mere extension of a covert and pathetic smear campaign” – Eritrea’s Minister of Information BY TESFANEWS* Russia is moving to expand its sphere of influence in Africa through new military bases in a move military experts say is aimed at building a military force in the form […]
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BY TRAVIS J TRITTEN | WASHINGTON EXAMINER The United States is concerned and watching closely whether China will make a move to control a seaport in Africa that services the hub of American military operations on the continent, the general in charge of U.S. forces in Africa said on Tuesday.
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BY JOSEPH HAMMOND An obscure border conflict between two nations in the Horn of Africa may threaten America’s only permanent military base on that continent. The current crisis was sparked in June when Qatar suddenly withdrew the peacekeeping force it has maintained in a disputed region along the Eritrean-Djibouti border after both feuding nations announced […]
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By Jeffrey Smith | for Foreign Policy, On the Horn of Africa, tucked between quarrelsome neighbors who receive the lion’s share of the regional spotlight, lies the nondescript and mostly forgotten Republic of Djibouti. The country rarely makes its way into international headlines — and this is exactly what the government and its allies, namely the […]
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By Glen Ford | BAR Executive Editor The United States is methodically setting the stage for a so-called “humanitarian” military intervention against the small northeast African nation of Eritrea, under legal pretexts much like those used to justify NATO’s war of regime change against Libya, in 2011. As in Libya, the U.S. has hijacked the […]
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By Sputnik News, The Chinese military is about to give its American counterpart the boot in the tiny country of Djibouti – the strategically critical entrance from the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea located in the Horn of Africa. The United States is about to lose one of its military installations in the Republic […]
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By Thomas C. Mountain, The tiny country of Djibouti sitting at the strategically critical entrance from the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea is quickly turning into the latest confrontation between the USA and China in Africa. Djibouti, home to the only US permanent military presence in Africa, has recently notified the American military that […]
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By Craig Whitlock (for The Washington Post), THE skies above the U.S. military’s counter-terrorism hub on the Horn of Africa have become chronically dangerous, with pilots forced to rely on local air-traffic controllers who fall asleep on the job, commit errors at astronomical rates and are hostile to Americans, documents show. Conditions at Camp Lemonnier […]
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