30 April, 2009

Drug trade very huge in West Africa : Ghana Business News
By admin
Mary Carlin Yates, Africom’s deputy commander for civil-military activities, said the US military was training local navies to help cut off the heavily plied drug smuggling routes from Latin America via Africa to Europe. …
ghanabusinessnews.com/2009/04/30/
drug-trade-very-huge-in-west-africa/

Principled Progressive “ OBAMA’S FIRST 100 DAYS—BLACK AGENDA …
By Jerry Rose
The Bush administration established AFRICOM, the US imperial command on the continent, a move so unpopular that only one African government in 54 will dare openly accept it, fearing the wrath of their own constituents. …
sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/?p=230

Drug trade ‘gargantuan’ problem for W Africa
AFP
Mary Carlin Yates, Africom’s deputy commander for civil-military activities, said the US military was training local navies to help cut off the heavily …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5hCs-OyMnBdJ-JoNYhmlliA2BjqUg

Obama’s First 100 Days — The Black Agenda Report Card
Black Agenda Report – Jersey City,NJ,USA
The Bush administratin established AFRICOM, the US imperial command on the continent, a move so unpopular that only one African government in 54 will dare …
www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/obam
as-first-100-days-black-agenda-report-card

Africom: The security need for 21st century Africa – modernghana …
American government have set-up Africom – a military command for Africa, which is to secure peace and goodwill in Africa. Many African countries are skeptical of America’s real intention, fearing that Africom can become a tool to punish …
www.modernghana.com/news/213737/1/africom-
the-security-need-for-21st-century-africa.html

Seychelles Coast Guard arrests nine suspected pirates – Kansas …
/pp”We have to get at the root causes, and the root causes are on the land,” Mary Yates, a senior U.S. diplomat who serves as Africom deputy for civil-military activities, told reporters in Berlin. …
www.kansascity.com/659/story/1166372.html

Rwanda: US Africom Commander Jets in
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
William E. Ward, Commander of the United States Africa Command – US AFRICOM, arrived in Rwanda yesterday afternoon for a two-day official visit. Gen. …
allafrica.com/stories/200904210437.html

JLASS 2009 trains students in strategic thinking, media relations
Maxwell Gunter Dispatch – Montgomery,AL,USA
Drefus Lane played the role of AFRICOM commander, General Lane, and said he thought he was able to convey the AFRICOM strategy to media players. …
www.maxwellgunterdispatch.com/article/20090
427/DISPATCH01/90427010/1115/DISPATCH

AFRICOM’s Ugandan Blunder
Foreign Policy In Focus – USA
Seventeen military advisors from AFRICOM worked closely with the Ugandan People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) to plan the attack, which the United States further …
fpif.org/fpiftxt/6057

‘AFRICOM Headquarters Remains in Stuttgart’
THISDAY – Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
Deputy Commander (Military-Civil relations) of the United African Command (AFRICOM), Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates, who is in the country for the five-day …
www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=141471

US: Long-term solution to piracy is political
MLive.com – MI,USA
But Mary Yates, a senior US diplomat who serves as Africom deputy for civil-military activities, said the real answer lies in Somalia itself. …
www.mlive.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/inter
national-2/1240941135267590.xml&storylist=international

Seychelles Coast Guard arrests 9 suspected pirates
Houston Chronicle – Houston,TX,USA
“We have to get at the root causes, and the root causes are on the land,” Mary Yates, a senior US diplomat who serves as Africom deputy for civil-military …
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6396621.html

The Islamist Move to East Africa
Counterterrorism Blog – Medford,NJ,USA
Africom, struggling to find a home and a mission that is viable in the region, is handicapped by a severe lack of intelligence resources on the ground. …
counterterrorismblog.org/2009/04/the_islamist_move_to_east_afri.php

## Terroristi lasciano il confine afgano per raggiungere l’Africa
Wall Street Italia – Italy
Il comandante di Africom, Ward, ha riferito di attività di cooperazione avviate dagli Usa con diversi Paesi africani per favorire la creazione di forze di …
www.wallstreetitalia.com/articolo.asp?art_id=714307

Le commandant d'Africom appelle à la constitution d'une armée …
AngolaPress – Luanda,Angola
KINSHASA – Le général William E. Ward, le chef du Commandement militaire régional des Etats-Unis pour l’Afrique (AFRICOM), a indiqué ce week-end lors d’une …
www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/fr_fr/noticias/africa/commandant
-Africom-appelle-constitution-une-armee-performante-RDC,816
027c4-9afd-4b2d-9a9b-056c1be38a6a.html

Comment of the day: Who are the real pirates? – OregonLive.com
By Artsy Annie
Ditto for the IMF, World Bank and Africom, they ALWAYS consult with me first! In case you hadn’t noticed, MY garbage goes up the river to Arlington, along with Hawaii’s and Seattle’s. And why don’t you read that article a little better. …
www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009
/04/comment_of_the_day_who_are_the.html

Heart of Diamonds: Africom Commander In Congo
By Dave Donelson
Africom commander General William E. “Kip” Ward said this week that the U.S. plans to provide training, advice, and capacity building to the Congolese army. He made the remarks during a visit to Kinshasa, the last leg of a three-nation …
heartofdiamonds.blogspot.com/2009/04/
africom-commander-in-congo.html

U.S. to Continue Congo Security Assistance, Africom Commander Says …
(Dr.) Schuyler Geller, Africom’s command surgeon, who accompanied Ward on the trip. The Medflag exercise is a premier annual training event conducted bilaterally with African nations, focused on medical training and building the skills …
timblair.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B71A619F97F176BD!191840.entry

U.S. to Continue Congo Security Assistance, Africom Commander Says …
US to Continue Congo Security Assistance, Africom Commander Says.
www.sofmag.com/wp/2009/04/27/us-to-continue-
congo-security-assistance-africom-commander-says/

27 April, 2009

DRC: Africom commander calls for the establishment of a functional …
Afrik.com – Paris,France
General William E. Ward, the head of the Regional Military Command of the United States for Africa (AFRICOM), said this weekend during a visit to the…
en.afrik.com/news12793.html

Scrap Book – Doco – Documentation – Media Snippets: Africa US …
By u2r2h
In practice, AFRICOM, which became a fully independent combatant command on 1 October 2008 with its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, is built on the paradigm of US military commands which span the globe. Although AFRICOM features …
u2r2h-documents.blogspot.com/2009/04/africa-us-military-threat.html

Eeben Barlow’s Military and Security Blog: THE COMING BATTLE FOR …
By Eeben Barlow’s Milsec Blog
The U.S Africa Command (AFRICOM), established in October 2007, is described as being a Unified Combatant Command of the US Department of Defence and is responsible for U.S. military operations and military relations with 53 African …
eebenbarlowsmilitaryandsecurityblog.blogspot.
com/2009/04/coming-battle-for-africa.html

African Soul Caribbean Spirit: RESIST AFRICOM
By Soulfully
With the establishment of AFRICOM, the Pentagon attempts to increase access to Africa’s oil and to wage a new front in the Global War on Terror without regard for the needs or desires of African people. Enabled by oil companies and …
ascsunited.blogspot.com/2009/04/resist-africom.html

26 April, 2009

Oil-rich Uganda faces massive land-wars and population explosion …
AFRICOM’s Col Ron Anderson recently opened St Theresa’s school which with US funding, was translocated to a new region away from the vicious rebel attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army who were killing, raping and maiming many villagers …
www.digitaljournal.com/article/271506

War On Terror News: AFRICOM – April 23 – 24, 2009
By MsMarti –
US Africa Command Presents Performance Awards to Robinson Barracks Students STUTTGART, Germany – Robinson Middle School students, parents and teachers listen to Major General Michael Snodgrass, US Africa Command Chief of Staff as he …
waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/
2009/04/africom-april-23-24-2009.html

25 April, 2009

L’Africom veut appuyer la sécurité et la stabilité du pays
AngolaPress – Luanda,Angola
Kinshasa – Le commandement militaire américain pour l’Afrique (Africom) a l’intention “d’appuyer la sécurité et la stabilité à long terme”, de la République …
www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/fr_fr/noticias/africa/Africom-
veut-appuyer-securite-stabilite-pays,6cd04053-fb97-4e31-8
a12-d606d97fde2b.html

Human Security Gateway – AFRICOM’s Ugandan Blunder
In early February, The New York Times released information detailing the involvement of the US military in the bungled Ugandan mission to oust the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) from northeastern DR Congo.
www.humansecuritygateway.com/showRecord.php?RecordId=29072

24 April, 2009

Africa: Africom – Making Peace Or Fuelling War
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Media CenterIn the first of a two-part article exploring the implications of the US AFRICOM (the United States Africa Command) programme, Daniel Volman and …
allafrica.com/stories/200904240655.html

Piracy, Geopolitics and Private Security
Media Monitors Network – CA,USA
Currently, there are three possibilities being considered—reenergizing the Africa Command Center known as AFRICOM which was rejected by all African nations …
usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/61726

Rwanda: RDF Ready to Share Peace-Keeping Skills
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
In an earlier press briefing held Wednesday with the Commander of the United States Africa Command (US AFRICOM),Gen. William Ward, Rutaremara had noted that …
allafrica.com/stories/200904240131.html

Misreading the Somali Threat
The Nation. – New York,NY,USA
My concerns rest more with the ambitions of Africom, the Pentagon command for Africa, … Despite general distrust of Africom throughout the continent, …
www.thenation.com/doc/20090511/rothmyer

Conditions are ripe to support terrorism in Horn of Africa
eTaiwan News – Taipei,Taiwan
So it wasn’t surprising to see that Africa was given its own command (Africom) soon after my trip ended. No longer are Djibouti and seven other African …
www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=928836&lang
=eng_news&cate_img=140.jpg&cate_rss=news_Opinion

Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo: allAfrica.com: Africa: ‘Africom …
By The Angryindian
Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo/The Intelligent Aboriginal News Service. International 4th World political news and opinion for intelligent Aboriginals.
angryindian.blogspot.com/2009/04/allafricacom-africa-africom.html

YWAM AfriCom: From Uganda
By Team AfriCom
At the end of last year, God placed it on my heart to do a School of Field Journalism (SOFJ) through a ministry called Africom. This ministry is focused on communication within YWAM projects around the continent of Africa. …
commsteamafrica.blogspot.com/2009/04/from-uganda.html

Circle of 13: Resist AFRICOM
By noreply@blogger.com (Peacedream)
AFRICOM: The expansion of US military interests on African soil. Making Peace or Fueling War in Africa By Daniel Volman 14 Mar, 2009. Coauthored with William Minter. At the end of President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony, …
circleof13.blogspot.com/2009/04/resist-africom.html

War On Terror News: AFRICOM – April 22
By MsMarti –
Two articles: Ward Leads Africa Command Delegation to Rwanda; Africa Command Deputy Meets Nigerian Leadership, Speaks on Security Reform at ECOWAS Conference Apr 22, 2009 · US AFRICOM Public AffairsU.S. Africa Command’s civilian deputy, …
waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2009/04/africom-april-22.html

PZN – AFRICOM: Making peace or fuelling war
cc Soldiers Media CenterIn the first of a two-part article exploring the implications of the US AFRICOM (the United States Africa Command) programme, Daniel Volman and William Minter discuss the growing strategic importance of the …
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/55784