u.s. africa command. strengthen security forces councils transnational threats and conducts crisis response in order to advance u.s. national interests and promote regional security stability and prosperity major carl weiss a spokesperson for the u.s. military's african command has come forward and stated the purpose of the pentagon's operations on the continent now he was responding to a tweet by the young gun control activist david hawkins now hawgs tweet was reacting to the fact that currently there are u.s. military operations underway on the african continent is not a small number you official reason given is to promote stability but it's hard to measure success when so little information is available to the public about what's actually going on for example for u.s. military personnel were killed in the african country of niger when this came to light members of the u.s. armed services committee those are u.s. senators had no idea what they were even doing there but i didn't know there was a thousand

u.s. africa command for africa on has received billions of dollars over the past decade to train foreign militaries and counter terrorism tactics and put in a joint operations it's popped up around fifteen mostly unofficial bases from morocco to mozambique and has been fighting in at least thirteen countries including what some call africa's afghanistan somalia headed out for calm insists special operators are doing a fantastic job across to come but are they really as u.s. military presence has dramatically increased in africa so have terror related attacks going from forty one to nearly twenty five hundred twenty seventeen with reports saying u.s. strategy has only strengthen the hands of radical groups and the violence extends even beyond terrorists in the fight against boko haram u.s. trained and backed nigerian forces have stormed suffocated tortured. extrajudicial executed eight thousand people in fact over a dozen u.s. trained militaries have been accused of human rights abuses from operating secret torture prisons to shooting at women and children and the us once i admitted they failed to t

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u.s. africa command is forced to defend itself after a report reveals washington has been running dozens of military missions on the continent paving unprecedented levels of cooperation between the countries the presidents of china and russia plan for an even brighter future their remarks came at a major economic gathering known as the belgium road forum in beijing. good afternoon welcome you're watching r.t. international where it's just gone one o'clock here in moscow the french president a man you're macron has gone on the defensive claiming he's done nothing wrong in the way he's been dealing with the country's issues in a televised address on thursday night he made an impassioned plea to the public and the yellow vest protesters who've been rocking the country for almost six months. as i do to be a complete movie q i ask myself the question did we take a wrong turn i think it's quite the opposite i believe that to lead a democracy today no matter the country has to accept not to be popular and i'd rather be responsible and be unpopular rather than to seek to charm in such a way that wo

u.s. africa command is forced to defend itself after a report reveals washington has been running dozens of unexplained military missions on the continent. and a project of truly epic ambition britain and germany china's belt and road trading network and that's the countries take part in a major economic forum on beijing's plan. you're watching r.t. international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned six pm welcome to the program. the french president has gone on the defensive claiming he's done nothing wrong in dealing with the country's issues and a televised address on thursday night the manual mccrone made an impassioned plea to yellow vests protesters who've been demonstrating across the country for almost six months. as id be a complete movie q i ask myself the question did we take a wrong turn i think it's quite the opposite i believe that to lead a democracy today no matter the country has to accept not to be a popular one and i'd rather be responsible for it and be unpopular rather than to seek to charm in such a way that would always be fleeting only l

u.s. africa command is forced to defend itself after a report reveals washington has been running dozens of military missions on the continent. a project of truly epic ambition britain and germany held china's belt and rode trading network initiative of the countries take part in a major economic forum on beijing's plan. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our to h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the french president emmanuel mccrone has gone on the defensive claiming he's done nothing wrong and the way he's been dealing with the country's issues they tell me televised address on thursday night he made an impassioned plea to the public and the protesters who've been rocking the country for almost six months now. you can please many of the q i asked myself the question did we take a wrong turn i think it's quite the opposite i believe that to lead a democracy today no matter the country has to accept not to be popular and i'd rather be responsible for it and be unpopular rather than to seek to charm in such a way that would always be fleeting only claiming

u.s. africa command for africa on has received billions of dollars over the past decade to train foreign militaries and counter terrorism tactics and put in a joint operations it's popped up around fifteen mostly unofficial bases from morocco to mozambique and has been fighting in at least thirteen countries including what some call africa's afghanistan somalia headed out for calm insists special operators are doing a fantastic job across the coming but are they really as u.s. military presence has dramatically increased in africa so have terror related attacks going from forty one to nearly twenty five hundred twenty seventeen with reports saying the u.s. strategy has only strengthened the hands of radical groups and the violence extends even beyond terrorists in the fight against boko haram u.s. trained and backed nigerian forces have stormed suffocated tortured or at. prejudicially executed eight thousand people in fact over a dozen u.s. trained militaries have been accused of human rights abuses from operating secret torture prisons to shooting at women and children and the us once i admitted t

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u.s.-africa command today saying that a small contingency of u.s.to be evacuated from libya due to the security situation on the ground. another reminder of just how dangerous these confrontations are. cnn, london. >>> protests against sudan's longtime president are intensifying. an opposition group says at least six people were killed in khartoum sunday and dozens more hurt in clashes with security forces. activists say the rallies could have been the biggest since they began in september. >> a sea of protesters started gathering outside the president's compound. that's happened since saturday. they've been calling on him to resign. security forces have been using tear gas, but witnesses say it has failed to disburse those crowds. >>> uganda says its security forces have rescued kidnapped american tourist kimberly endicott with intelligence support from u.s. military. >> endicott and her tour guide were take hostage on april 2nd while on a game drive at queen elizabeth park. these photos taken not longer after their rescue. >> ugandan government sp

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u.s. forces supporting africa command in libya. but what many thanks indeed let's speak now to the stuff for today has an independent libyan academic also for the lecturer at the tripoli basic out of a graduate studies he joins us now live from paris what do you think is going to happen now with forces bearing down on tripoli how likely is it that the tripoli falls to him well and. so on. point no. one. stop there. were. both your. national. it's quite sooner or. later. but this time it will be far more. are more of the stuff i was expecting us to come down to give us nine or. ten days starting. with them but the. next era this narrative which is so long so. limited success or quote. it will not be. another. ok in terms of public support would have to move been more effective do you think if he'd waited until off the beaten until after april sixteenth. well i think i think i think we will be able to have more coming with her justification. as the mission down because then we have that city has already gave the. come currents a kind

u.s. citizen. we've reached out to the state department, the white house, the africa command, the u.s. command organization in africa, and we've yet to hear anything back. of course the u.s. was tracking the situation. we know the state department earlier issuing a warning to all u.s. citizens to stay away from that area, that border region between the democratic republic of congo citing criminal activity and the ugandan security forces rescue operation there so the u.s. state department was tracking the issue closely aware of the operation to attempt to recover one of its u.s. citizens. however, we've yet to hear anything about the successful recovery and, of course, reports that a ransom was paid. the u.s. government itself does not pay ransom to kidnappers. however, it is not able to stop individuals or companies, insurance companies from paying said ransoms, especially if it's to a criminal gang as opposed to some kind of terrorist group, but yet no official word from the u.s. government as to the successful recovery operation of the american citizen. fred? >> all right. any indicat