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Many African leaders cannot resist the financial carrots the US and Europe military throw their way to allow them to expand their military presence on the continent.
Niger is a major base for Africom and has recently taken 100s of millions of dollars in incentives and aid. recently, the US has built a new military Drone base in Niger which allows them to conduct surveillance all African countries surrounding Niger.
U.S. special operations forces regularly train with Niger’s army and the U.S. has transferred millions of dollars’ worth of planes, trucks, and other gear to that impoverished nation. In a 2015 report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, Lauren Ploch Blanchard of the Congressional Research Service noted that since 2006 Niger had received more than $82 million in assistance through the Department of Defense’s Global Train and Equip program.
To assist the militaries of Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. Between 2009 and 2013 alone, the U.S. allocated $288 million in TSCTP funding, according to a 2014 report by the Government Accountability Office. Niger was one of the top three recipients, netting more than $30 million.
Nick Turse, disclosed that there are dozens of US military installations in Africa, besides Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti. These numerous cooperative security locations (CSLs), forward operating locations (FOLs) and other outposts have been built by the US in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Senegal, the Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, and Uganda. According to the American journalist, US military also had access to locations in Algeria, Botswana, Namibia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, Zambia and other countries.
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Yet and still with that you got conflict and chaos across the continent.... So obviously these folks aren't stopping anything. In fact all they are doing is training the bad guys and giving them equipment to keep the chaos going.
Because if Africa is so poor, how are are they getting all these guns and weapons to be constantly fighting each other?
Keep in mind that the U.S. is the biggest weapons exporter on the planet.
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I call AFRICOM expansion in Africa the neocolonization of Africa. African countries doesnt want Western bases and armies. African countries wants Western investment in businesses and infrastructure.
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