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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 and training to African countries is done when a country requests it and Africom what is going on th...

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 has been the pattern of behaviour among American soldiers everywhere in the hundreds of American mi...

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 maize production by next year.Advertisement He said this during the unveiling of the first... Reps pane...

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 Staff Sgt. Ryan Swartzendruber, 110th Operations Group, stand for a team photo on April 29, 2021 at Batt...

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 insecurity across Nigeria? It is extremely disturbing, worrisome and unsettling that Nigeria seems to have...