Ivo vanobatanidzwa muAlgeria neAngola, Benin neBotswana, Burkina Faso neBurundi, Cameroon neCape Verde Islands. Uye ndiwo chete maABC emamiriro ezvinhu. Svetuka kusvika kumagumo earufabheti uye nyaya inoramba yakafanana: Senegal neSeychelles, Togo neTunisia, Uganda neZambia. Kubva kuchamhembe kusvika kumaodzanyemba, kumabvazuva kusvika kumadokero, Nyanga yeAfrica kusvika kuSahel, mwoyo wekondinendi kusvika kuzvitsuwa zviri kumahombekombe ayo, mauto eUnited States ari kushanda. Kuvaka kwekutanga, kubatanidzwa kwekuchengetedza kuchengetedza, maekisesaizi ekudzidziswa, kutumirwa kwekuraira, mamisheni akasarudzika, uye network inokura yezvinhu, humbowo husingarambiki hwekuwedzera - kunze kwekuUS Africa Command.
Kuti unzwe AFRICOM ichizvitaura, kubatanidzwa kwemauto eUS mukondinendi kubva kune miniscule kuenda kune microscopic. Murairo wacho wakasimba kuti inongova ne "chigadziko chemauto" chimwe chete muAfrica yese: Camp Lemonnier muDjibouti. Musoro wemurairo anoramba kuti mauto eUS anochengeta "diki tsoka" mukondinendi. Mutauriri mukuru weAFRICOM akaramba achidzikisira mashandiro ayo uye huwandu hwezvivakwa zvainochengeta kana kugovera nenyika dzinotambira, achiti "vashoma vashandi vanoita misangano yenguva pfupi" vari kushanda kubva "nzvimbo dzinoverengeka" mukondinendi. chero nguva.
Nehondo muIraq yapera uye kukakavara muAfghanistan kuchipera, mauto eUS ari kuperekedza mauto ayo ari kure kupfuura nzvimbo dzokurwa dzakaziviswa. In makore achangopfuura, semuenzaniso, Washington ine pachena kwazvo vakazivisa a "pivot kuAsia,โ โkudzoreredzwaโ kwezviwanikwa zvaro zvehondo kumabvazuva, pasina chaizvoizvo kuita wholesale policy shanduko. Kumwe kunhu, zvakadaro, kubva kuMiddle East kuenda kuSouth America, Pentagon iri kuwedzera kuita shadowy operations vane ruzivo rwunobuda muchidimbu uye haawanzoongororwa nenzira yakazara. Hapana kwese kune chokwadi ichi semuAfrica. Kune vezvenhau nevanhu vekuAmerica, vakuru vakuru vanosimbirira kuti mauto eUS ari kuita zvidiki-diki, zvisina mhosva ipapo. Nekunzwa neveruzhinji, vakuru vakuru vehondo dzepachivande dzeAmerica vanoti: โAfrica ndiyo nhandare yehondo mangwana, nhasi.โ
Humbowo huri mune zvakadzama - tambo inoita seisingamire yemapurojekiti, mashandiro, uye zvisungo. Basa rega rega, sekusimbirira kweAFRICOM, rinogona kunge riine mashoma uye tsoka imwe neimwe inogona kunge iri "diki" pachayo, asi ikatorwa sese, mauto eUS ari kutsvaira uye kuwedzera. Humbowo hweAmerican pivot kuAfrica hunenge kwese kwese mukondinendi. Vashomanana, zvisinei, vakabhadhara chiziviso chakawanda.
Kana mufananidzo wechirevo uchikosha mazwi ane chiuru, saka mepu yakakosha sei? Tora, semuenzaniso, iyo yakagadzirwa neTomDispatch inonyora mauto eUS, kuvaka, kuchengetedza kuchengetedza, uye kutumirwa muAfrica. Inotaridzika semunda wehowa mushure memonsoon. US Africa Command inocherekedza nyika makumi mashanu neina mukondinendi iyi, asi inoramba kutaura kuti ndedzipi (kana kunyange mungani) dzavari kuita mabasa. Ongororo yakaitwa naTomDispatch yakawana kubatanidzwa kwemauto eUS pasina mashoma pane makumi mana nemapfumbamwe Nyika dzemuAfrica.
Mune mamwe, iyo US inochengetedza mabhesi, kunyangwe iri pasi pemamwe mazita. Mune mamwe, inodzidzisa vadyidzani venzvimbo uye proxies kuti varwi vehondo kubva kuAl-Shabab yekuSomalia neBoko Haram yekuNigeria kusvika kunhengo dzeAl-Qaeda muIslam Maghreb. Kumwe kunhu, iri kuvaka zvivakwa zvevabatsiri vayo kana zvivakwa zvevagari venzvimbo. Nyika zhinji dzemuAfrica dzine mapurojekiti akawanda emauto eUS. Zvisinei nezvinotaurwa nevakuru veAFRICOM, kunyatsoverenga zvipfupi zvemukati, zvibvumirano, uye mamwe magwaro epamutemo, pamwe neruzivo rwakavhurika sosi, kusanganisira kuburitswa kwemapepanhau nenhau, zvinoratidza kuti mauto muAfrica atokura uye achange achikura. kuitira ramangwana rinoonekwa.
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Ko mauto eUS muAfrica anotaridzika sei? Colonel Tom Davis, Mukuru weAFRICOM anoona nezvePublic Affairs, haana mubvunzo kuti: โKunze kwenzvimbo yedu kuCamp Lemonnier kuDjibouti, hatina zvigaro zvemauto muAfrica, uye hatina hurongwa hwekuvamba.โ Iye anobvuma chete kuti US ine "zvivakwa zvenguva pfupi kune imwe nzvimbo ... inotsigira nhamba shoma yevashandi, kazhinji kune chimwe chiitiko."
Mukuru weAFRICOM wezvekubatanidzwa kwenhau Benjamin Benson anotsinhira izvi, achindiudza kuti hazvigoneke kupa runyoro rwekumberi mabhesi ekushanda. โNzvimbo idzo [mauto eUnited States] angave ari, dzakatekeshera
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