A US base in Africa?

By Olivier Guitta

While this issue has been on the table for a long while already , no final decisions have been made. It looks like Morocco is the favorite but nothing is less sure.
Anyway this idea is being very much debated and talked about in Africa.
For proof this story from The Croissant:

According to an Emirati newspaper usually well informed on these matters, African countries including Algeria and Libya are negotiating tooth and nail with the US to prevent the installation of American military bases in Africa. Algiers and Tripoli are making the case that these bases are not going to be beneficial either for Africa or Washington or even less for the fight against terrorism.
Quoting a speech on April 30 by Abdessalam Triki, Secretary of the Libyan popular Committee: “Tripoli and Algiers are categorically opposed to Washington’s will to establish a military command for Africa” (Africom).

This comes after the controversy regarding the installation of a US military base in Algeria in order to fight Al Qaeda affiliated groups. In March, Algeria refused to host the headquarters of that new command while the US denied ever making such a request to the Algerians in the first place. The Pentagon then decided to engage talks with a couple of African countries regarding the moving of his military command from Germany to an African country.

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