Damilola Oyedele
30 November 2007
Abuja — United States of America has said its decision to situate an African Command in the West African region of the continent is not out of a desire to be close to the oil rich African states, but a desire to help Africa establish its own security and support its leadership efforts.
At a press briefing jointly addressed by Deputy to the Commander for military operations, US AFRICOM, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller and Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates, Deputy to the Commander for Civil- Military Activities, at the US Embassy in Abuja, the duo stated that they are in Nigeria to hold consultations with top Nigerian military officials and Foreign Affairs Minister, Ojo Maduekwe, to get their perspective and clarify the misconceptions that have been generated over the establishment.
Moeller said the U.S. intends to consolidate its three commands ; US Europe, US Central and US Pacific, into one command, "to allow US Department of Defence to view all of Africa through a single lens and build upon the significant foundation that the three geographic commands and their components have built."
While fielding questions from newsmen, Yates said a number of African countries, including Liberia, have expressed a desire to have AFRICOM situated in their country, but she stated that Nigeria has not shown any interest.
It is intended to bring on board other US agencies, so as to create more sensitivity to Africa's needs.Meanwhile, n 11-day Exercise DEGGO XXVII, to test the deployment and sustenance capabilities of the ECOWAS Task Force and strategic relationship with partners in the field of logistics and support, kicked-off yesterday in Thies, Senegal.The field training exercise is intended to strengthen the capacity of the Task Force (TF) component of the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF), towards making it functional by 2008, as specified under the African Union security architecture that requires that regional peace-keeping forces become operational by 2010.
In a statement to THISDAY from the Commission, 1653 troops are to be drawn from the ECOWAS Standby Force Task Force, the Senegalese Armed Forces, the French Forces based in Cape Verde and the Armed Forces of Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Guinea and Mali, and would be led by Nigeria's General Hassan Lai, who is the Chief of Staff to the ECOWAS Task Force.Previously, an annual bilateral military exercise between France and Senegal, this year's exercise has been expanded at the request of the ECOWAS Standby Force Task Force, to enable it gauge its level of preparedness for the likely tasks at Operational and Tactical Levels in a Peace Support Operations setting.The exercise would also include a Civil-Military Enhancement Project, which entails rehabilitation of a well, renovation of an Islamic Women's School and offering of Medicare to the host village.
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America is coming late to the table of Africa Colonialism. Its white European-American leaders has initiated 'Africom' to 'catch up' to the white EU nations who have a several-centuries lead on them in 'Disaster Colonialism' in Africa. Euro-Americans would like to make Africom appear as a moderate rational entity. Its reality is to the contrary.
For the last 500 years, white Europeans have raped, looted, pillaged and slaughtered their way across Africa as if it were their own massive 'piggy bank' or preserve of semi-humans and natural riches. Today, every African nation bears the indellible scars of Genocide & Rape from European Colonialism.
That being the case, African nations would be absolutely, certifiably, 159% INSANE to permit white European American leaders to place any form of an 'Africom' concept on their continent. If African nations do NOTHING ELSE TOGETHER in the next 1,000 years, THEY MUST UNITE TO DENY THE U.S. EVEN AN 'ADVISORY' OR 'QUASI-MILITARY' PRESENCE anywhere! To do so would merely 'INSTITUTIONALISE' WHITE RACIST PILLAGE, RAPE & SLAUGHTER INITIATED SOME 500 YEARS AGO!
By trying to manipulate Africom on Afrcan soil, the US is counting on the gullibility of African politicians to accept a bait that would, no doubt, eventually destroy the continent. It is to be noted that insecurity that has been witnessed in any African country has always been planned, backed and financed by the US. It is not a secret that the situation with civil wars in the DRC that is responsible for the killing of an estimated 6-8 million civilians since 1960 is the handiwork of the US. The civil war and invasion of Angola that caused the death of over 2 million civilians was planned, organized and backed by the US. The civil war in Mozambique that caused the death of almost 1 million civilians was planned, organized and backed by the US. The civil war in Ethiopia that caused the death of an estimated 2 millionm civilians was backed by the US. The civil war that has been going on in Somalia is backed by the US. These are only few of the cases where the US has caused waton destruction of civilian lives through masterminding the insecurity of these African countries. Taking the above instances into consideration, there is no doubt that the US wants to use the Africom to create further insecurity in the continent and use its army to quickly finish the job of eliminating Africans from the world equation. At this stage of world civilization, it is expected that the world should have outgrown the jungle law where the weaker nations are made to live in constant fear from attack by the stronger nations with its army, like the Africom, located at the doorstep of the weaker nations.