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The acronym " AFRICOM" commonly resolves to a few other organizations, including an alliance of African museums, and an ISP based out of Zimbabawe. Therefore, I suggest people use " USAFRICOM" as the acronym for the U.S. military command structure. -- Petercorless 06:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
What does "Bush had made the decision on 2006-12-15 to stand-up the new command." and "The President, on the 15th of December, made the decision to stand it up" [1] mean? Create, mobilize, "forceful prevention"? -- Jeandré, 2007-02-10 t17:41z
Buckshot06 05:41, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
African governments may well support the war on terror, but, having thrown off British, French, Portuguese and white South African rule, African public opinion does not support the establishment of any new high-profile military bases or headquarters on the continent and African opposition to any such thing is entirely predictable (and I'm sure the State Department would have told the Department of Defence just that). Rexparry sydney 01:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
There is well-documented, well-founded concern in Africa about the role of Africom. This page hardly reflects those realities.
This is from the March webpage of the UN's IRIN: "AFRICOM will focus on military training and counter-terrorism WASHINGTON, 14 March 2008 (IRIN) - In a key briefing to Congress on 13 March, General William “Kip” Ward, head of the US Command for Africa, AFRICOM, devoted only 15 seconds of his four-and-a-half minute opening remarks to a possible humanitarian role.
Focusing instead on military training, security and counter-terrorism, his remarks came in sharp contrast to a year ago when officials announced that the command would concentrate on humanitarian assistance, alarming many aid agencies, which were concerned that US military involvement in humanitarian aid would undermine their neutrality."
This sure seems like a sideways move to continue the quasi-legal role the US has played in Somalia and Kenya and other African nations when it ignores national boundaries to target suspected terrorists in those countries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.133.138.141 ( talk • contribs)
Hope that helps. Buckshot06 ( talk) 09:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Why is the US Africa Command in Germany (Europe)? or Why ain't it in the US or somewhere in Africa ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.164.206.182 ( talk) 09:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Why are they allowed to do it if so many Africans oppose. They are affraid to show their faces because it would cause massive blood shed. This is Wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.12.245 ( talk) 03:42, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
http://www.defense.gov//news/newsarticle.aspx?id=116871
Worth a mention or link here? Hcobb ( talk) 16:26, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37220.htm - U.S. Africa Command has also built a sophisticated logistics system, officially known as the Africom Surface Distribution Network, but colloquially referred to as "the new spice route". Its central nodes are in Manda Bay, Garissa and Mombasa in Kenya; Kampala and Entebbe in Uganda; Bangui and Djema in the Central African Republic; Nzara in South Sudan; Dire Dawa in Ethiopia; and the Pentagon's showpiece African base, Camp Lemonnier. - the DOD uses drones and manned aircraft out of airports and bases around the continent including Camp Lemonnier, Arba Minch airport in Ethiopia, Niamey in Niger and the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, while private contractor-operated surveillance aircraft have flown missions out of Entebbe. Recently, Foreign Policy reported on the existence of a possible drone base in Lamu, Kenya. - Another critical location is Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, home to a Joint Special Operations Air Detachment and the Trans-Sahara Short Take-Off and Landing Airlift Support Initiative that, according to military documents, supports "high-risk activities" carried out by elite forces from Joint Special Operations Task Force - Trans-Sahara.
74.60.161.158 ( talk) 18:31, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
I am going to WP:AFD the Magharebia article, but a short statement or section about it could be included here. Here are a few articles from the Washington Post about it. The site was an operation of USAFRICOM, but it doesn't seem to fit in this article's Operations section and I don't think it merits a section of its own. The site started in 2005 and the web domain was blanked sometime between January and April 2015. See Internet Archive for more info. Mnnlaxer ( talk) 21:09, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
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The acronym " AFRICOM" commonly resolves to a few other organizations, including an alliance of African museums, and an ISP based out of Zimbabawe. Therefore, I suggest people use " USAFRICOM" as the acronym for the U.S. military command structure. -- Petercorless 06:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
What does "Bush had made the decision on 2006-12-15 to stand-up the new command." and "The President, on the 15th of December, made the decision to stand it up" [1] mean? Create, mobilize, "forceful prevention"? -- Jeandré, 2007-02-10 t17:41z
Buckshot06 05:41, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
African governments may well support the war on terror, but, having thrown off British, French, Portuguese and white South African rule, African public opinion does not support the establishment of any new high-profile military bases or headquarters on the continent and African opposition to any such thing is entirely predictable (and I'm sure the State Department would have told the Department of Defence just that). Rexparry sydney 01:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
There is well-documented, well-founded concern in Africa about the role of Africom. This page hardly reflects those realities.
This is from the March webpage of the UN's IRIN: "AFRICOM will focus on military training and counter-terrorism WASHINGTON, 14 March 2008 (IRIN) - In a key briefing to Congress on 13 March, General William “Kip” Ward, head of the US Command for Africa, AFRICOM, devoted only 15 seconds of his four-and-a-half minute opening remarks to a possible humanitarian role.
Focusing instead on military training, security and counter-terrorism, his remarks came in sharp contrast to a year ago when officials announced that the command would concentrate on humanitarian assistance, alarming many aid agencies, which were concerned that US military involvement in humanitarian aid would undermine their neutrality."
This sure seems like a sideways move to continue the quasi-legal role the US has played in Somalia and Kenya and other African nations when it ignores national boundaries to target suspected terrorists in those countries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.133.138.141 ( talk • contribs)
Hope that helps. Buckshot06 ( talk) 09:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Why is the US Africa Command in Germany (Europe)? or Why ain't it in the US or somewhere in Africa ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.164.206.182 ( talk) 09:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Why are they allowed to do it if so many Africans oppose. They are affraid to show their faces because it would cause massive blood shed. This is Wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.12.245 ( talk) 03:42, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
http://www.defense.gov//news/newsarticle.aspx?id=116871
Worth a mention or link here? Hcobb ( talk) 16:26, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37220.htm - U.S. Africa Command has also built a sophisticated logistics system, officially known as the Africom Surface Distribution Network, but colloquially referred to as "the new spice route". Its central nodes are in Manda Bay, Garissa and Mombasa in Kenya; Kampala and Entebbe in Uganda; Bangui and Djema in the Central African Republic; Nzara in South Sudan; Dire Dawa in Ethiopia; and the Pentagon's showpiece African base, Camp Lemonnier. - the DOD uses drones and manned aircraft out of airports and bases around the continent including Camp Lemonnier, Arba Minch airport in Ethiopia, Niamey in Niger and the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, while private contractor-operated surveillance aircraft have flown missions out of Entebbe. Recently, Foreign Policy reported on the existence of a possible drone base in Lamu, Kenya. - Another critical location is Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, home to a Joint Special Operations Air Detachment and the Trans-Sahara Short Take-Off and Landing Airlift Support Initiative that, according to military documents, supports "high-risk activities" carried out by elite forces from Joint Special Operations Task Force - Trans-Sahara.
74.60.161.158 ( talk) 18:31, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
I am going to WP:AFD the Magharebia article, but a short statement or section about it could be included here. Here are a few articles from the Washington Post about it. The site was an operation of USAFRICOM, but it doesn't seem to fit in this article's Operations section and I don't think it merits a section of its own. The site started in 2005 and the web domain was blanked sometime between January and April 2015. See Internet Archive for more info. Mnnlaxer ( talk) 21:09, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
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