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© iStock Nigeria on Tuesday urged the United States to move the headquarters of U.S. Africa Command (Africom) from Germany to the African continent to provide more direct responses to ongoing violence and insurgencies throughout the region.  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said in a virtual meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken "Considering the growing security challenges in West and Central Africa, Gulf of Guinea, Lake Chad region and the Sahel weighing heavily on Africa underscores the need for the United States to consider relocating Africom headquarters from Stuttgart in G...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Africom commander Stephen Townsend. General Stephen Townsend, Commander of the US military’s Africa Command (Africom) briefed Congress on future threats and opportunities in Africa as well as the importance of US engagement as part of the command’s annual Posture Statement. Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on 20 April, Townsend spoke alongside Acting Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Amanda Dory and the US Central Command commander, US Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie, Jr. “Historically, America has not been penalized for u...

This week in Congress: Details on the Afghanistan withdrawal plan 2 hours ago Navy HM2 Joshua Hervas, assigned to Marine Embedded Training Team 1-12, takes part in a patrol near the village of Dehayat, Afghanistan, on Nov. 7, 2009. (Capt. Rock Stevens/Army) Biden administration officials will brief members of Congress this week on the decision to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan later this year, one of a series of high-level closed-door military briefings on Capitol Hill this week. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are scheduled to hear details of the draw-down plan...

Defense Secretary Austin orders review of deadly 2020 Manda Bay attack in Kenya 1 hour ago U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks to reporters at Israel's Nevatim air base Monday, with an Israeli F-35 fighter jet in the background, at Nevatim Israeli Air Force Base, Monday, April 12, 2021 in Israel. (Robert Burns/AP) BERLIN — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday ordered an Army review of an investigation into a January 2020 militant assault on the Manda Bay military base in Kenya that killed three Americans and wounded three others. In a written statement announcing Austin’s...

US Special Forces sent into Mozambique amid growing civil war Amid an escalating armed conflict in Mozambique, the Pentagon has sent US Special Operations troops into the southern African nation. The deployment of these troops, described as “trainers” and “advisers,” and justified in the name of the endless “war on terrorism,” provides fresh confirmation of the Biden administration’s global escalation of US militarism, including on the continent of Africa. Announced in the middle of last month, the US deployment has come amid a sharp escalation in the civil war being fought in M...