sub-Saharan Africa

The peasantry is to be “protected” through the establishment of “customary land reserves” in the vicinity of the White Afrikaner commercial farms. The rural people will be caged into small territorial enclaves (“communal lands”) while the best agricultural land will be sold or leased to private investors.
Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US.
The objectives of the US military presence in Africa are well documented: counter Chinese influence and control strategic locations and natural resources including oil reserves. This was confirmed more than 8 years ago by the US State Department

Somalia has been the focus of oil and natural gas exploration. This coupled with its geographically strategic location on the Indian Ocean and near the Gulf of Aden, which is one of the most lucrative shipping lanes in the world,

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Yemen: The Covert Apparatus of the American Empire By Andrew Gavin Marshall, October 05, 2010
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U.S. Military Intervention in Africa: The New Blueprint for Global Domination By Paul C. Wright, August 20, 2010
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Paul Kagame: America’s Genocidaire in Central Africa By Glen Ford, August 15, 2010
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Political Repression in Rwanda: Widespread Arrests of Journalists and Opposition Politicians By Prof Susan Thomson, July 20, 2010
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Devastation of Food Farming: Expansion of Biofuels in Sub-saharan Africa By Friends of the Earth Europe, July 14, 2010
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Rwandan Elections: Kagame Regime Orders Torture and Arrest of Opposition Candidates By Ann Garrison, July 05, 2010
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Rwanda Genocide: U.S. Citizen Falsely Accused By Keith Harmon Snow, June 28, 2010
VIDEO: Rwanda, Congo and Law Professor Peter Erlinder By Ann Garrison, June 26, 2010
Crisis in Rwanda: Kagame Releases Defense Lawyer Erlinder on “Medical Grounds” By Ann Garrison, June 17, 2010
World Cup Soccer In Africa: Who Really Wins? By Craig Tanner, June 14, 2010
Warning of Famine in West Africa By Barry Mason, June 12, 2010
Fox News Confuses Rwanda’s Presidential Election With the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda By Ann Garrison, June 10, 2010
Lawyers Who Reveal the Truth: The Arrest and Threats to the Life of Attorney Professor Peter Erlinder By Niloufer Bhagwat, June 08, 2010
US Calls on Rwanda to Release American Lawyer Peter Erlinder By Ann Garrison, June 04, 2010
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New Colonialism: Pentagon Carves Africa Into Military Zones By Rick Rozoff, May 05, 2010
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Japan’s First Overseas Base Aimed at Expanding Military Boundaries By Yu Zhixiao, April 29, 2010
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