24 June, 2009

Elsa Rassbach interviews André Shepherd, a US soldier applying for …
The Guardian (Australia) – Australia
He wants to keep pushing for AFRICOM, the US command for Africa based in Stuttgart, and he’s pushing for the missile shield to try to encircle Russia and …
www.cpa.org.au/guardian/2009/1416/12-view-from-germany.html

Comandante do AFRICOM esperado no Senegal
AngolaPress – Angop,Luanda,Angola
Dakar – O comandante do Comando dos Estados Unidos para África (AFRICOM), o general William E. “Kip” Ward, é esperada quinta-feira próxima em Dakar…
www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/pt_pt/noticias/africa/Comandante
-AFRICOM-esperado-Senegal,e6bf38ca-82a9-4b8c-a359-22c3a19080f1.html

Remarks At the Forum for Support of the Comprehensive Peace …
US Department of State – Washington,DC,USA
I’d like to give a special welcome to my friend General Ward, from the Commander of AFRICOM. You know, I’ve had the honor and privilege of working with …
www.state.gov/s/sudan/rem/125255.htm

Tithing at the Crude Altar
The National Interest Online – Washington,DC,USA
… appears to have been a factor in the Pentagon’s decision to establish a new regional command organization—the US Africa Command, or AFRICOM—in 2007. …
www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=21648

Conférence de presse du commandant de l’AFRICOM, jeudi
AP Sénégalaise – Senegal
Le Général Ward dirige l’AFRICOM depuis le 1er octobre 2007. Il en est le premier commandant et il est issu de l’Armée de Terre américaine qu’il a intégrée …
www.aps.sn/aps.php?page=articles&id_article=56971

oolaah | Military contractors eye Africa again
By oolaah
Africom’s diplomacy-driven development operation, it seems, was the magnet. Of particular interest was a U.S. State Department contract, the Africa Peacekeeping Program, worth around $1 billion over five years. It covers everything from …
oolaah.com/?p=4546

AFRICOM Commander visits Senegal
General William Ward commander of the US Command for AfricaAFRICOM will begin a threeday visit to Senegal from Thursday the US Embassy informed PANA here on …
www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/africom
-commander-visits-senegal-2009062430334.html

23 June, 2009

General: National Guard is key in Afghanistan
Stars and Stripes – Washington,DC,USA
In all, 61 countries are enrolled in the state-to-country partnership effort, including 21 each in EUCOM and in Southern Command, seven in AFRICOM territory …
www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=63422

Military contractors eye Africa again
Center for Research on Globalization – Montreal,Quebec,Canada
But Africom is also charged with helping development programs — and oddly enough, that’s where the military contractors see the prospect of big bucks. …
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14055

Military contractors eye Africa again
United Press International (subscription) – USA
… courtesy of the new combat command established by the George W. Bush administration, the US Africa Command, universally known as Africom.
www.upi.com/Security_Industry/2009/06/22/Military
-contractors-eye-Africa-again/UPI-31841245686583/

US Army Medical Unit in Kenya Stands Ready
U.S. Africa Command (Press Release) – Arlington,VA,USA
With the establishment of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) and US Army Africa, USAMRU-K is now coordinating its established missions with new initiatives on the …
www.africom.mil/getArticle.asp?art=3137

Nigeria Demands More Command Roles in UN Peacekeeping | Center for …
By gsm
Nigeria has taken a leadership role in resisting the presence of AFRICOM in Africa. It has made clear that ECOWAS members should not accept a US military base in the region. In December 2007, President Yar’Adua made a statement about …
gsm.c4ads.org/node/476

22 June, 2009

Reviewing F. William Engdahl’s “Full Spectrum Dominance …
Center for Research on Globalization – Montreal,Quebec,Canada Another initiative as well is ongoing – the 2007 AFRICOM authorization, the US Africa Command to control the continent’s 53 countries no differently than …
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14046

RESIST AFRICOM
Modern Ghana – Ghana
By resistafricom.org Resist AFRICOM is a campaign comprised of concerned US and Africa-based organizations and individuals opposed to the new US military …
www.modernghana.com/news/223188/1/resist-africom.html

19 June, 2009

Piracy, geopolitics and private security
The New Nation – Bangladesh
Currently there are three possibilities being considered – reenergizing the Africa Command Center known as AFRICOM, which was rejected by all African…
nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/06/19/news0546.htm

YWAM AfriCom: Getting Shipshape
By Team AfriCom
Next you have to follow up all those outstanding emails, put all your notes into some sort of order, list all action points … and get your head down! And that’s where we’re up to right now in the AfriCom South Africa office.…
commsteamafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/getting-shipshape.html

18 June, 2009

The Somalia Crossroads
In These Times – Chicago,IL,USA
The new administration, moreover, has inherited a newly formalized military command for Africa, AFRICOM, which has developed its own institutional momentum. …
inthesetimes.com/article/4520/the_somalia_crossroads

If Uganda It Has Oil It Must Need The Pentagon’s Democracy …
By xcroc
AFRICOM is still wearing its humanitarian makeup in Northern Uganda. If you look at the map of Northern Uganda at the top of this post, Pader, Gulu, and Lira are all featured in the photos at the africom.mil photo gallery photos from …
crossedcrocodiles.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/if-
uganda-it-has-oil-it-must-need-the-pentagons-democracy/

Camp Lemonier Fast Tracks $34 Million in Airfield Projects
The camp is the primary base of operations for AFRICOM in the Horn of
Africa and supports more than 23 tenant commands, including CJTF HOA, U.S. Army 218th Field Artillery Regiment and Naval Mobile Construction Battalion detachments. …
www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=46257

YWAM AfriCom: Being Team in Uganda
By Team AfriCom
Working together as a team and not trying to do it all alone because one person cannot! T-Together, E-Everyone, A-Achieves, M-More! By Sarah Adeyinka, YWAM Hopeland, Jinja, Uganda. Posted by Team AfriCom at 14:45 …
commsteamafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/being-team-in-uganda.html

Feature: Use Obama’s visit to reclaim leadership role in Africa …
By ghanavoices
Unlike other analysts, I don’t believe that Obama would push Africom on Ghana. Obama is a hard-nosed realist when it comes to foreign policy; and his foreign policy team is one of the most seasoned in recent times. …
ghanavoices.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/feature-use-obama
%E2%80%99s-visit-to-reclaim-leadership-role-in-africa/

16 June, 2009

Global Peeks with Brian E. Muhammad: Global Peeks with Brian E …
By Global Peeks with Brian E. Muhammad
Global Peeks with Brian E. Muhammad: AFRICOM Re-Packaged is still AFRICOM· Global Peeks with Brian E. Muhammad: AFRICOM Re-Packaged is still AFRICOM. Posted by Global Peeks with Brian E. Muhammad at 12:56 AM …
globalpeeks.blogspot.com/2009/06/
global-peeks-with-brian-e-muhammad.html

AFRICOM building social science research center
The research center, which falls under AFRICOM’s knowledge development division, will be designed to focus on the long-term with an eye toward forecasting potential flashpoints and preventing them from developing into conflicts. …
www.inteldaily.com/news/178/ARTICLE/10984/2009-06-15.html

AFRICOM can help nations punch at a higher weight (Thomas P.M. …
By Thomas PM Barnett
AFRICOM can help nations punch at a higher weight. ARTICLE: Arms for peace: U.S., Brits give $9M in equipment to Tanzanians for peacekeeping in Darfur, By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes, May 15, 2009. An example of AFRICOM’s promise …
thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2009/06/
africom_can_help_nations_punch.html

15 June, 2009

AFRICOM Building Research CenterSWJ Blog
The research center which falls under AFRICOMs knowledge development division will be designed to focus on the longterm with an eye toward forecasting …
smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2009/06/africom-building-research-cent/

AFRICOM building research center | Stars and Stripes
STUTTGART, Germany — A social science research center is under development at US Africa Command headquarters, where researchers from the academic world are being recruited to help map the com…
www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=63315

14 June, 2009

Projects reveal high cost of poor coordination | Stars and Stripes
The size of the interagency staff will grow as AFRICOM — which stood up in October as the military’s sixth unified geographical command— continues to develop, Rahmaan said. “One of the things that is happening is the whole interagency …
www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=63306

Nana Akyea Mensah’s Corner: A BETTER MOVE THAN THE AFRICOM !
By Nana Akyea Mensah
A BETTER MOVE THAN THE AFRICOM ! Nana Akyea Mensah comments on Ghana and South Africa to strengthen defence cooperation, Ghanaweb, General News of Saturday, 13 June 2009. Click here to see comment: A BETTER MOVE THAN THE AFRICOM ! …
nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com/2009/
06/better-move-than-africom.html

13 June, 2009

AFRICOM: Open for Business?
By Refugees International
A few weeks ago, I visited the headquarters of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) in Stuttgart, Germany as part of a research project on the imbalance between America’s military and civilian expeditionary capabilities. …
www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2009/06/12/
africom-open-for-business_ws_214995.html

World News Journal: Africom to Continue and Expand Under Obama …
By David Barouski
The Obama administration’s budget for the 2010 financial year proposes significant increases in US security assistance programmes for African countries and for the operations of the new US Africa Command (AFRICOM).…
africannewsanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/06/
africom-to-continue-and-expand-under.html

What the U.S. Wants “ Voices from Ghana
By mindmapsza
As the US’s preferred physical location for the US African Command (AFRICOM) headquarters and with the superpower concerned not to cede strategic ground to China in the region, Ghana has an unprecedented hand to play in this round of …
ghanavoices.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/what-the-u-s-wants/

12 June, 2009

On AFRICOM and the Benefits Of US Military Bases To The Local
Modern Ghana – Ghana
As the visit of US President Barak Obama approaches, the pro-AFRICOM lobby in Ghana are strident in their claims of the economic benefits of the US military …
www.modernghana.com/news/221447/1/on-africom
-and-the-benefits-of-us-military-bases-t.html

Ghana: What the US Wants
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
The loudest argument against Ghana hosting AFRICOM when the possibility first … And the head of AFRICOM has already reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to …
allafrica.com/stories/200906110877.html

New CO For HSL-48
MayportMirror – Jacksonville,FL,USA
Detachment Five returned to the Squadron in early May, and was responsible for pioneering operations in the AFRICOM AOR, a new and challenging environment …
www.mayportmirror.com/stories/061109/may_MM2.shtml

ECOWAS defence chiefs meet in Ouagadougou
Le Mali en ligne – Mali
… an 11-day exercise which started on 10 June 2009 and is being organized by Benin in collaboration with AFRICOM of the United Stat es of America.…
www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/ecowas-defence
-chiefs-meet-in-ouagadougou-2009061129482.html

allAfricacom Africa Africom to Continue Under Obama
allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience.
allafrica.com/stories/200906110882.html

PZN AFRICOM to continue under Obama
AFRICOM The Obama administration’s proposed FY 2010 budget for the Department of Defense requests some $300 million in operation and maintenance funds to …
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/56855

11 June, 2009

AFRICOM Re-Packaged is still AFRICOM
Modern Ghana – Ghana
The Africa policy has been a source of concern of analysts since the first days of Obama’s administration mostly over the US African Command (AFRICOM), …
www.modernghana.com/news/221281/1/
africom-re-packaged-is-still-africom.html

ECOWAS Defence Chiefs begin meeting in Ouagadougou
Joy Online – Accra,Ghana
It is being organized by Benin in collaboration with AFRICOM of the United States of America. The Defence Chiefs are also expected to be briefed on the …
news.myjoyonline.com/news/200906/31292.asp

Global Peeks with Brian E. Muhammad: AFRICOM Re-Packaged is still …
By Global Peeks with Brian E. Muhammad
The Africa policy has been a source of concern of analysts since the first days of Obama’s administration mostly over the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM), an initiative started by former President George W. Bush, the US Department of …
globalpeeks.blogspot.com/2009/06/
africom-re-packaged-is-still-africom.html

10 June, 2009

The Trouble With Elections
Wall Street Journal – USA
In October 2008 a new American military force specifically for Africa, AFRICOM, was activated. Currently it is small, with only 3600 troops, and its bases …
online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529
70204679604574209853098258342.html