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SPECIAL OPERATIONS: Diagnosing Mozambique  May 7, 2021: The United States has sent nearly a hundred Special Forces, air force and military specialists to Mozambique in March 2021. Officially, some were there to train local special operations troops for two months. Most of the Americans were there assessing the situation for Africom (African Command), the American organization responsible to monitoring the military situation throughout Africa. Providing advice ...

US’s Africom in Nigeria? Heck No! AFRICOM Thu May 06 2021 “Overpaid, oversexed and over here’’. That was the resentful and contemptuous opinion many British people came to have of the thousands of American GIs stationed in several military bases in Britain during the Second World War. The gum-chewing, brash, hard-drinking and womanising American soldiers frequently got into pub brawls and dangerous knife fights which built up a feeling of disdain for the yanks among the locals. And this...

ON THE GO Enugu Catholic diocese breaks silence on Mbaka, declares one-week prayer The Catholic diocese of Enugu has declared a one-week prayer after a violent protest about the whereabouts of Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministries Enugu Nigeria (AMEN).Advertisement In his... Emefiele: Nigeria to attain self-sufficiency in maize production next year Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says Nigeria will attain self-sufficiency in mai...

Michigan ANG “carries the torch” for Air Force communication networks in Europe Photo By Staff Sgt. Bethany Rizor | Members of the 110th Wing (pictured from left to right), Senior Airman Donovan Wentworth, 110th Communications Flight; Staff Sgt. Jennifer Rumsey, Tech. Sgt. Justin Oosterbaan, Lt. Col. Daniel Fawcett, Tech. Sgt. Robert Zellers, Master Sgt. Brian Leonard, Tech. Sgt. Lewis Banks, Staff Sgt. Robert Rainone, 217th Air Component Operations Squadron and Staf...

Translate We need Tucano, not relocation of US AFRICOM HQ to Africa — Amb. Olumoko On By Olayinka Ajayi Olufunso Olumoko is a former Career Ambassador to Thailand with accreditation to Myanmar. In this interview, Olumoko speaks on the call by President Muhammadu Buhari for the relocation of the United States (US) African Command, AFRICOM, from Stuttgart, Germany to Africa, to help tackle insecurity in the continent. Excerpts: What are your thoughts on the lingering insecu...

Views: Visits 6 Tuesday’s virtual meeting of United States Secretary of State, Tony Blinken with President Muhammadu Buhari should have extensively reshaped the relationship between Nigeria and the United States. However, there are fears everywhere, that it may not. Cast against the dodgy, if not arrogant posture of the Barack Obama government towards Nigeria, the expectation from everywhere is that the new democratic government would have out of experience learnt how to deal wi...

Government should take its responsibility of securing the nation seriously The worsening security situation in the country is a throwback to what happened in May last year when the First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari called for action to “rescue” Nigerians from the criminal cartels that are holding the country hostage. At that time, she shared a short clip from an indigenous Hausa musician’s single, “Arewa na kuka,” meaning “the north weeps.” The video displays images of the Security Ser...

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper watch as the flag for U.S. Space Command is unfurled as Trump announces the establishment of the U.S. Space Command in the Rose Garden of the White House on August 29, 2019. Photo by Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo What You Need to Know About the U.S. Space Command Controversy One of former President Donald Trump’s final acts as commander-in-chief was to announce that the headquarters for the military operation woul...

The 36th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron has been called upon once again to deploy personnel to multiple locations in support of the fight against COVID-19. In 2020, the squadron saw nine volunteers out the door to various locations, and now, six more, News, features and commentaries about Air Force Reserve people, equipment and missions

Been -- had been before. not at that moment, but had been before to see what intelligence they could gather. weve been told explicitly they were not sent on a mission to kill or capture that isis leader. in part because he wasnt there, but also this is not the team that would do it. it was not a team either equipped to to or backed up with the resources to carry out such a mission. >> david, the head of african command is calling for more resources in the region? >> reporter: well, thats right. ...