Forget Iran Look At Africa Iran Is A Diversion

Tripoli - British Prime Minister David Cameron, on a surprise visit to Tripoli, said on Thursday Britain would help train Libya's security forces.

After flying in from Algiers, where he also pledged to co-operate on security and intelligence to counter Islamist militancy in the region, Cameron visited a police training academy and Martyrs' Square in the Libyan capital.

Cameron has called North Africa and the Sahel a "magnet for jihadists" and warned of a "generational struggle" against them, after at least 38 hostages died in an Islamist attack on an Algerian gas complex earlier this month.

[link to www.news24.com]

And now cameron is promising no defense cuts after 2015 which isn't necessarily bad, but it kind of tells Us what we may be seeing more of in the future there is also 160 billion pound being put into military spending.

MOD Reveals £160 Billion Plan to Equip Armed Forces

The Ministry of Defence has today published details of how it will equip the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force over the next 10 years and how this will be funded.
For the first time, the government has set out a fully-funded Defence Equipment Plan totalling almost £160 billion.


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No more defence cuts, says David Cameron
Defence spending will rise again to avert the threat of fresh cuts to the Armed Forces, David Cameron has promised.

The Prime Minister has moved to reassure Armed Forces chiefs by pledging that the Treasury will increase defence spending above inflation from 2015, even as it cuts other Whitehall departments’ budgets.
Mr Cameron’s commitment emerged during a trip to north Africa to discuss the fight against al-Qaeda, which this week saw him deploy more than 300 British troops to the region.

[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]

Europe Alarmed Over Threat of New Conflict in Africa


"There is no true freedom, there is no true democracy without security and stability as well, and we are committed to helping you with that both here and also in your neighborhood," he said at a press conference with his Libyan counterpart on Thursday.

The fallout from the Arab Spring has generated a new threat for the West, says Rafaello Pantucci of the Royal United Services Institute in London.

"Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and other radical terrorist groups, insurgent networks and criminal networks in North Africa were able to strengthen themselves from the flood of arms that came out of Gadhafi's armories," he said. "And this really helped to foment instability across the region."

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French army to stay in Mali until 'sovereignty: Hollande

BAMAKO - France will withdraw its troops from Mali once the Sahel state has restored sovereignty over its national territory and a UN-backed African military force can take over from the French soldiers, French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday.
"We have not yet finished our mission. But we do not foresee staying indefinitely. Once the sovereignty of Mali is restored, once MISMA (the African force) can replace our own troops, we will withdraw," he told a news conference in Bamako during a one-day visit to Mali.
Hollande said shortly afterwards in a public speech France's three-week-old military intervention against Islamist rebels had inflicted "heavy losses" on them, but had not eliminated them.
Malians say "Thank you, France!" as Hollande visits

[link to usa.chinadaily.com.cn]

France may permanently station soldiers in Mali

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has suggested the creation of a peacekeeping force in Mali that would include West African troops already operating in the country. He also said that a “parallel force” must be built to confront Islamist threats.

"Given the anticipated level and nature of the residual threat, there would be a fundamental requirement for a parallel force to operate in Mali alongside the UN mission in order to conduct major combat and counter-terrorism operations," Ban wrote in his report on Mali.

Such a force could be built on the French troops already active in Mali, some diplomats say.

Once the African nations’ soldiers become a UN peacekeeping force, most of their troops and police would operate in northern Mali, while there would be a "light presence" based in the country's capital, Bamako, Ban suggested.

[link to rt.com]

French military White Paper plans escalating wars

On April 29, France’s Socialist Party (PS) government released its White Paper on military strategy. After his election a year ago, President François Hollande set up a commission to draft a new White Paper taking into account changes in world political situation since the publication of the previous French military White Paper in 2008.
In analysing the 2008 White Paper, the WSWS noted that the French ruling class was preparing to turn to war in an attempt to resolve the contradictions besetting world imperialism. This analysis has been confirmed in the ensuing five years, which have seen an explosion of French imperialist aggression after the outbreak of the 2008 economic crisis and of revolutionary working class struggles in Egypt in 2011. In two years, France has waged wars in Libya, the Ivory Coast, and now in Mali and Syria.


[link to www.wsws.org]

Op
Do you really honestly think china is in Africa to help Africa as a "partner"?
Serious question?

Good observation OP.
Could see this one coming with the inception of Africom (2008).

no not by their true goal, by face yes.

china will rape Africa and bleed the place dry, its sad the Africans just cannot see it.

thank you I keep watching everything thats going on and just when I think I may have been mistaken, something else crops up to do with Africa plus now the info came out regarding 6 trill in mineral wealth in North Korea seems China is picking some good moves how long before we hit checkmate is another question, when we get there though its going to be very ugly, by the rate of things happening at the moment we may never actually know what has happened and continue oblivious to what dictates us.

Greed will always be the death of a man, there is a reason why we have kept Africa in step for along time, China on the other hand are doing the exact same with a different tactic it seems.

By keeping a nation suppressed there isn't much a nation can do in form of retaliation so when we give them something good what they don't have they become blind to the extent that some know what is being done to them but enjoy the power they inherit.

when one nation tries in Africa it gets rebooted back to the past we only have to look a Libya as a recent example of this.

My ancestors were not extraterrestrial in the sense you think. They were Black human beings. I am their descendent and I am a Black human being.

As long as you mock and doubt and oppress the Black Man and Woman you will never know the wisdom of the ages because it is locked inside of us. You can't access my truth.




The Chinese will cause Europe to be invaded by the Caliphs once the West has Israel destroyed.


:jongnukeem:

I mis understand are saying that I'm mocking or they are being mocked ?

One thing I have to say colour is no part or bearing on this it is how human interact and behave, Humans are Humans, and what we do on to each other its when it comes around and the same is done upon ourselves that will be the real kill shot but it will also be the change to the way we all interpret and look at each other and live.

... and not ended it has yet.

Very intereting topic.
I am sure the OP has a BIG "something" there.
For years now, they've been dropping Africans in EVERY small place you can think of (I am speaking of Belgium here but I am sure this goes for many other countries too). As if they wanted to make totally sure that nowhere - literally NOWHERE - there is a 100% (or even a 90% if you ask me) totally original - and perhaps, in particular originally European - population.

Recent events kicking off in Africa mainly from the French side of things...

[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]

Death toll in Central African Republic attacks even greater than thought, say Amnesty
Report from human rights organisation says almost 1,000 were killed in savage reprisal attacks by mostly Muslim ex-rebels on Christians, double the UN figure

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IS FRANCE about to embark on another African military intervention? Things certainly seem to be moving very fast in Paris. Just over ten months after it dispatched soldiers and fighter jets to push back an Islamist incursion in Mali, the French are putting things into place in order to launch another operation, possibly as early as next week, this time in the Central African Republic (CAR).


As we see in the 1st post the French are there as speculated...

And I came across a thread today posted by Ger_reG who I have found to be reliable on what he posts...

[link to www.godlikeproductions.com]


Remember what I 1st said was that Africa would be the way out in theory from the EU crisis and the French seem to be the muscle...

Taking Responsibility: France Seeks Help for Africa Intervention

Despite its financial troubles, France remains committed to an expensive military intervention in the Central African Republic. Now the country is looking to its European partners, chiefly Germany, to support the operation.

[link to www.spiegel.de]


France to ask allies for help in Central Africa

France will ask Britain and other European countries on Monday to send troops or logistical aid to head off a possible genocidal civil war in Central Africa.

The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said on Sunday that two European Union countries were considering sending soldiers to bolster a 1,600-strong French force which is trying to end an anarchic and murderous conflict between Muslim and Christian communities in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Mr Fabius did not name the countries which are considering deploying troops but said that Britain, Germany, Poland, Spain and Belgium were ready to supply logistical help to the French force.

"Two of them are looking at the possibility (of sending troops). I hope that they will say yes," Mr Fabius told Europe 1 radio. He said that he would be asking for a "stronger, more solid" European response to the crisis in Central Africa when EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels on Monday.

Please note the bold

[link to www.independent.co.uk]

China's 'Image' Problem in Africa

Fortunately for Beijing, the past decade has been a relative honeymoon as African leaders have grown impatient with Washington’s neoliberal agenda, leading them to readily embrace another option – a promise of economic growth with limited to no political preconditions. Undoubtedly, the policy of non-interference is more popularly among the leadership than the ordinary citizens as the policy does not force leaders to accept democratic standards in order to partner with China. Yet, in recent months China has seen a rise in its deportations from the continent, as well as rising anti-Chinese sentiment among certain segments of African populations. In light of this, Chinese leaders may need to assess whether Beijing is already too deeply domestically involved in Africa to continue its non-interference policy, or, conversely, if this policy should be continued in an effort to avoid being labeled as a “colonializer” and “resource exploiter.”

[link to thediplomat.com]
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Politics, economics influence Africa's French connection

WASHINGTON — About two-thirds of the 8,400 French troops involved in foreign operations are based in Africa, primarily in Mali and the Central African Republic. Meanwhile, French President Francois Hollande said recently that he wants his country to double its trade to Africa over the next five years. Together, the developments could indicate the former colonial power in Africa is again trying to bolster its influence on the continent.

France has carried out more than 10 major military interventions on the African continent since the early 1990s, in countries including Chad, Ivory Coast and Libya.

[link to www.turkishweekly.net]

The EU Via the French may soon be crossing paths with the Chinese...

Imagine a prop of the Chinese economic industry being chipped away and the EU still fighting off a Crisis of sorts and we say about powder kegs...

How China Views France’s Intervention in Mali: An Analysis


China’s response to France’s decision to send troops to fight against Islamic extremists in Mali is at most tepid and reserved. In the official statement by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the government merely “noted” the dispatch of troops by “related countries and regional organizations” without any explicit commitment to support the mission at its current stage. This has raised wide-speculation in the West that China is “free-riding” again in a West-led mission to stabilize a country infested with terrorist threats. Amongst the debate, it is important for the international community to clarify and understand China’s perspectives.

[link to www.brookings.edu]

From earlier this year and now look at the situation...

UN backs EU force in Central Africa amid troops push

United Nations (United States) — The UN Security Council on Tuesday gave European troops backing to use force in Central African Republic amid a new international push to end deadly chaos in the country.
The United Nations believes at least 10,000 troops will eventually be needed to restore order, France's UN ambassador said after the latest UN Security Council initiative on the crisis.
The 15-nation council unanimously backed a resolution that allows a proposed European Union contingent to use "all necessary force" to protect civilians caught in 10 months of strife since rebels seized power.
The European Union plans to send up to 600 troops to back African Union and French troops battling to end clashes between Muslim and Christian groups in Central African Republic.
The African Union force is eventually intended to reach 6,000 troops while France now has 1,600 soldiers in place.
Resolution 2134 also allows for asset freeze and travel ban sanctions against the ringleaders of groups blamed for massacres and human rights abuses. It did not name initial targets.

[link to www.google.com]

African nations meet to raise cash for C.Africa force

African countries met Saturday to raise cash for the peacekeeping mission in the strife-torn Central African Republic amid warnings the violence there could tear the country apart and destabilise the region.

The pledging conference comes after African leaders called for urgent solutions to the crisis in Central Africa, a landlocked, resource-rich but impoverished nation where weeks of sectarian violence have killed thousands.

[link to www.globalpost.com]