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Title: WHY SO MANY FOREIGN BASES IN AFRICA?
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URL Source: https://x.com/african_stream/status/1939930338454634777
Published: Jul 1, 2025
Author: Horse
Post Date: 2025-07-02 00:17:51 by Horse
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Sharmine Narwani reposted African Stream @african_stream WHY SO MANY FOREIGN BASES IN AFRICA? How many African military bases do you know of in the US? What about in the UK, or in France? The number is, of course, zero. Meanwhile, our continent hosts dozens of military bases belonging to other countries. The US has the largest footprint (or rather, boot print) - with locations across Africa from east to west. Note that these are only the known ones: countries like the US have a history of running black sites. A common justification given for all these military bases is that they are here to help Africa deal with insecurity. But would you take health advice from a coffin maker? The biggest culprit, the US, is a major destabilising force. It spearheaded the overthrow of Libyan pan-African icon Muammar Gaddafi, turning the Sahel into the new global epicentre of terrorism as US-armed rebels trickled south after the job was done. In East Africa, the 2006 invasion of Somalia by Ethiopia (acting as a proxy for Washington) led to the rise of terror group al-Shabaab. Another example: the United Arab Emirates is fanning the flames of the devastating proxy war in Sudan by backing the genocidal RSF paramilitary. The UN says the war has created the world's biggest humanitarian crisis. So why would Africans trust The Pentagon & Co. to bring about stability? But there is hope. Not so long ago, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger hosted various Western militaries. But then came the revolutions - and the formation by that trio of counties of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). Mali gave French forces the boot in 2022, Burkina Faso and Niger in 2023. The AES is now fighting terrorism as one, and - arguably - is doing a better job than foreign powers in the region ever did. 
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