U.S. mounts charm offensive for new Africa Command
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The launch of a new U.S. military command for Africa is aimed at helping the continent to boost its own security and not at projecting American power or countering Chinese influence, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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President Bush opened a coast-to-coast journey through Africa on Saturday by highlighting how U.S. aid can help a small western African nation like Benin develop and save lives.
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RABAT, Morocco -- A U.S. delegation seeking a home for a new military command in Africa got a chilly reception during a tour of the northern half of the continent this month, running into opposition even in countries that enjoy friendly relations with the Pentagon.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush said yesterday that he had approved plans to create a US military command for Africa, a move that reflects increased US strategic interest in the continent.
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American commanders believe it is essential to hobble the extremists in order to sustain recent security gains and ultimately pacify Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 29 -- The U.S. military plans to boost the number of neighborhood outposts across the capital by more than 30 percent this year even as American forces begin to withdraw, the new commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad said Tuesday.
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President George W. Bush  travels this week to Africa, one of the few regions where he can claim globally recognized successes for efforts on AIDS and development in a foreign policy legacy dominated by the Iraq war.
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US commanders intend to use the increase of US troops in Iraq in more offensive operations.
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The U.S. military has named a senior American diplomat to serve alongside a Navy admiral as deputies to the general leading its new Africa Command
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The latest scheme to spread electric light in Africa may sound familiar, but this time African leaders say they have the will, and financial backing, to succeed.
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The U.S. military is quietly expanding its network of small outposts worldwide to help fight terrorism in Middle Eastern and African hotspots, even as it prepares to send home tens of thousands of troops from ...
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The US army drafts a new manual, which puts as much emphasis on winning hearts and minds as it does on force.
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âWe are going to work with the new US administration that is formed ... We have many things to do, both on the current crises - in Iraq, the Middle East, Iran, the fate of the African continent - and to renovate the transatlantic relationship.
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One day after visiting Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld toured a spruced-up military base here Monday and heard a Romanian government sales pitch for making it a new American outpost within easy reach of potential hot spots in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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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.
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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 United States Tuesday sent a large warship to Africa's oil-rich Gulf of Guinea for about a month to visit three countries and help train local navies, the U.S. military said.