Skepticism greets first AfriCom mission

[nhboy]

"DAKAR, Senegal — Just a few years ago, the U.S. military was all but absent from the oil-rich waters of West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea. This year, it plans to be there every day.

Africans are concerned the new command is an American attempt to project military might, unnecessarily bringing the global war on terror to their own backyard. They also wonder whether it is a ruse to protect America’s competitive stake in African oil and other resources increasingly sought by rising powers like China and India.

“Africans have a feeling AfriCom represents something more than what is being sold to them,” said Wafula Okumu, an analyst at South Africa’s Institute for Security Studies."

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[ImnoMensa]

Africans are worried that the US may have a hand in stopping the lucrative prate trade. Anything else is horse crap. They are already a part of global terrorism, They are just afraid the US will take the profit out of it.