[news] The Scramble for Africa's Oil

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The Pentagon is to reorganise its military command structure in response  
to growing fears that the United States is seriously ill-equipped to  
fight the war against terrorism in Africa. It is a dramatic move, and an  
admission that the US must reshape its whole military policy if it is to  
maintain control of Africa for the duration of what Donald Rumsfeld has  
called "the long war". Suddenly the world's most neglected continent is  
assuming an increasing global importance as the international oil  
industry begins to exploit more and more of the west coast of Africa's  
abundant reserves.

  


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