Resist AFRICOM

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No quick fix in Northern Uganda
It is critical for Congress to ensure the United States’ actions promote sustainable peace, reconciliation, and development in the region, rather than further entrench conflict and insecurity.

Hundreds of Somali soldiers desert after US-supported training
The Associated Press reports on a major pitfall of U.S. train and equip programs - without addressing the underlying problems, such as whether salaries make it to the soldiers, U.S. training fails to prevent these newly professionalized soldiers from joining the opposite side.

Experts Scrutinize US Role in African Security
Voice of America reports on how concerns over the extent of U.S. military aid in war-torn Somalia as well as challenges for the U.S. military command structure in Africa are leading American experts to scrutinize the U.S. security role on the continent.

Obama Moves Ahead With AFRICOM
Daniel Volman outlines the significant ways, programmatically and budgetarily, that the Obama administration is carrying onward with AFRICOM.

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Help Stop AFRICOM

Resist AFRICOM is a campaign comprised of concerned U.S. and Africa-based organizations and individuals opposed to the new U.S. military command for Africa (AFRICOM).

With the establishment of AFRICOM, the Pentagon attempts to increase access to Africa's oil and to wage a new front in the Global War on Terror without regard for the needs or desires of African people. Enabled by oil companies and private military contractors, AFRICOM serves as the latest frontier in military expansionism, violating the human rights and civil liberties of Africans who have voiced a strong "no" to U.S. military presence. We reject this militarization of foreign engagement. Instead, our vision is a comprehensive U.S. foreign policy grounded in true partnership with the African Union, African governments, and civil society on peace, justice, security, and development.

UPDATE: LRA/Northern Uganda Legislation passes, Resist AFRICOM groups respond

Read the press release here. For more information, read an editorial by MCC's Mary Stata. IPS covers the bill as well, quoting Stata as well as Africa Action's Gerald LeMelle.

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Take Action, Call March 12th

President Bush may have created AFRICOM, but that doesn't mean its here to stay. Whether victims of domestic policing or foreign occupation, anti-war activists or liberation fighters, environmentalists or people of faith, citizens must stand united against the military's newest exertion of power.

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