Exclusive: The Pentagon Plans for an African Command
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The Pentagon is close to approving a command for Africa, where poverty and corruption make it a vulnerable area for extremists and terrorists
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The Security Council asked the U.N. chief on Wednesday to plan for the possible deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force in Somalia to replace African Union troops.
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The move appeared intended to stymie plans for a U.N. peacekeeping force to take over from the beleaguered African Union force in Darfur.
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Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the Pentagon's plan to withdraw troops from stations abroad.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, on the second day of a mission to strengthen security ties across Central and South America, received an unambiguous promise
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  said on Friday he favors creating a new U.S. military command  responsible for Africa, as the Pentagon aims to guard against  potential threats to U.S. security arising from the continent.
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President Bush approves Pentagon plans for a US military command centre for Africa.
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The United States and other nations are prepared to help move an expanded African peacekeeping force into position in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region to halt the bloodshed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
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The United States of Africa. It's one of few concrete plans African leaders agreed on as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week's continental summit.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday the United States would provide financial assistance to African Union troops on a proposed mission to end the looting and killing in western Sudan.
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The U.S. military has named a senior American diplomat to serve alongside a Navy admiral in leading its new Africa Command, an acknowledgment of the importance of the civilian aspects of the operation.
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U.S. counterterrorism officials are paying renewed attention to an increasingly dangerous incubator for extremism: a swath of northern and sub-Saharan West Africa, from the Atlantic coast of Morocco and Mauritania to the harsh deserts of Chad.
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The commander of U.S. forces in Central Asia has launched planning for more extensive use of U.S. troops to train Pakistani armed forces
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Troops from the United States and three east African nations will stage a joint military and crisis-response exercise this month, the first such operation in six years, officials said.
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The Pentagon issues a guidebook on fighting a counterinsurgency.
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The US has provided airlifts and pledged $300 million to support African troops in west Sudan. By Abraham McLaughlin - staff writer and Duncan Woodside - contributor.
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President George W. Bush said on  Tuesday he had approved plans to create a U.S. military command  for Africa, a move that reflects increased U.S. strategic  interest in the continent.