Africa Says No to AFRICOM

By ACAS | 11 October 2008


A top Pentagon official for African affairs insisted on Wednesday that no country on the continent had been asked to host the new United States military command for Africa (Africom), as she began a three-day visit to Angola.

“We actually have not asked any country to host the new Africa command. There has been some misinformation that we have asked some countries — we have not,” Theresa Whelan told reporters in Luanda.

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