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The rival powers are eyeing the fledgling democracy for a leg up on influence in East Africa

The East African Tuesday February 16 2021 Kenya's Defence Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma (centre) with Director General, Kenya Coast Guard, Vincent Naisho Loonena (left) during a tour inside a US Naval Ship which is deployed along the Eastern Coast of Africa to provide Maritime Security in this photo taken on February 9, 2021. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT Summary The naval ship can be used for a broad range of military operations acting as a mobile sea base to support multiple operational phases. Advertisement America has deployed the first naval ship to Eastern Africa in over a decade to boost maritime...

Aviation solutions will include passenger, cargo, casevac, personnel recovery, aerial delivery and other services in Africa. Acorn Growth Companies subsidiary Berry Aviation will carry on providing rotary-wing and fixed-wing airlift support to US Africa Command (AFRICOM), in a 12-month $179 million option under the Trans-Africa Airlift Support IDIQ contract from US Transportation Command. Berry will supply passenger, cargo, casevac, personnel recovery, aerial delivery and other services in Africa.  Berry Aviation supports all branches of the DoD with specialist aviation solutions, including...

US Africa Command official hails ‘new beginning’ in Sudan The Associated Press January 27 Ambassador Andrew Young, deputy to the commander for civil-military engagement, U.S. Africa Command, talks with senior leaders during a battlefield circulation, Sep. 18, 2020, at the CJTF-HOA headquarters building, Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. Young spent almost 30 years in diplomatic service on four different continents. (Senior Airman Kristin Savage/Air Force) CAIRO — A U.S. deputy commander for Africa on Wednesday welcomed a “new beginning” and a “renewed relationship” between the ...

US airstrikes in Somalia continue at rapid pace even after force relocation January 26 In this Dec. 8, 2008, file photo, armed al-Shabab fighters on pickup trucks prepare to travel into the city, just outside Mogadishu, in Somalia. (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP) Airstrikes targeting terrorists in Somalia have continued at a rapid pace since troops were relocated from the country earlier this month. AFRICOM has conducted three airstrikes against al-Shabab compounds and key leaders in Somalia since Jan. 15, an estimated 700 troops withdrew from the country on orders from former President Donald ...