The Pentagon's Africa Command will tell you there's one military base on the entire continent. Don't believe them.
By Nick Turse
Mother Jones - September 6, 2013
They're involved in Algeria and Angola, Benin and Botswana, Burkina
Faso and Burundi, Cameroon and the Cape Verde Islands. And that's just
the ABCs of the situation. Skip to the end of the alphabet and the story
remains the same: Senegal and the Seychelles, Togo and Tunisia, Uganda
and Zambia. From north to south, east to west, the Horn of Africa to the
Sahel, the heart of the continent to the islands off its coasts, the US
military is at work. Base construction, security cooperation
engagements, training exercises, advisory deployments, special
operations missions, and a growing logistics network, all undeniable
evidence of expansion—except at US Africa Command.
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