Expansion of Imperialist US “War on Terror” in Africa Preceded Deadly Attacks in Niger and Somalia
NOVANEWS
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!
We look at the US military presence in Africa and what happened during the ambush of US Special Forces by militants in Niger, in which five Nigerian soldiers were killed along with four US Green Berets. The incident is now the subject of a military and FBI investigation. At least 800 US servicemembers are currently stationed in the country to support a French-led mission to defeat militants in West Africa. Meanwhile, Somalia continues to recover from a massive bombing in Mogadishu that killed at least 358 people. We speak with Horace Campbell, who is currently spending a year in West Africa as the Kwame Nkrumah chair at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. Campbell is a peace and justice scholar an...