America Invades Africa

America Invades Africa: The Resource War and the Conquest of Mali

The Role of AFRICOM

By Timothy Alexander Guzman

The United States African Command (AFRICOM) was created in 2007 under then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the Bush Administration as a Military Command center that covers the entire continent of Africa.  They wanted to create a permanent footprint in Africa to maintain the peace and security it desires that is deemed beneficial for US interests.

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