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The CPD Media Monitor features collections of news articles, videos, and essays from around the world on critical developments in public diplomacy and world affairs.
AFRICOM - International Coverage
DEC 1, 2009
U.S. Africa Command Hosts 3rd Annual HIV/AIDS Awareness Program
U.S. Africom Command
U.S. Africa Command health specialists, doctors, and staff members discussed the latest trends in HIV/AIDS at the AFRICOM headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, November 30, 2009, in recognition of World HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on December 1.
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NOV 17, 2009
Think Again: Africom
Foreign Policy
For years, the Department of Defense split the continent between three existing commands - Central, European, and Pacific. But on February 6, 2007, the George W. Bush administration announced that Africa was finally going to get individual attention. If the move was meant as demonstration of Africa's crucial importance to the United States, however, it was received as more of an insult.
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NOV 17, 2009
Africa Command Begins its Premier Security Cooperation Conference
U.S. AFRICOM Public Affairs
The interagency representation at the conference also points to how Africa Command continues to be a listening and learning organization, Ward added. "This is a team effort...this helps us understand the environment in a more effective way and how we can do our very best to ensure that our programs are coordinated and synchronized in a way that brings coherency to the totality of our efforts to help bring stability to the African continent."
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SEP 9, 2009
AFRICOM To The Rescue
Strategy Page
Earlier this year, the U.S. donated $9 million worth of vehicles, weapons and equipment to enable a battalion of the Tanzanian Army to join the peacekeeping force in Darfur (western Sudan).
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AUG 19, 2009
Stop “Crimes Against Humanity and Geological Scandals”: Give AFRICOM a Chance In Congo
The Huffington Post
10,000 women are expected to receive assistance in the form of medical care, counseling, economic assistance and legal support. Clinton's uncompromising condemnation of perpetrators of sexual violence has not been thoroughly emphasized or analyzed, but sniping has already begun about AFRICOM's involvement in her initiative.
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JUL 1, 2009
Re-Packaged AFRICOM Still Not Good for Motherland
Final Call News
Increased attention on the White House Africa policy came ahead of President Barrack Obama's first trip to the continent as head of state, initially to Egypt in June and then Ghana in July. Africa policy has been a source of concern of analysts since the first days of Obama's administration mostly over the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM), an initiative started by former President George W. Bush, the U.S. Department of Defense and led by four-star General William “Kip” Ward.
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JUN 24, 2009
African Command Working To Counter Terrorism
NPR (audio)
In the last 20 months, the U.S. military has set up a command focused on Africa. It's known as Africom and the operation is led by Gen. William Ward. Part of Africom's mission is to promote peace and security on the continent.
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JUN 15, 2009
AFRICOM Building Research Center
Stars and Stripes
A social science research center is under development at U.S. Africa Command headquarters, where researchers from the academic world are being recruited to help map the complicated human terrain on the African continent.
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JUN 4, 2009
U.S. Navy Expanding African Port Surveys
Stars and Stripes
Examining additional African ports now makes sense with the United States expanding its presence in areas around Senegal, Liberia, Cameroon and elsewhere, Gabriel said. "The simple reason is as we build our relationships with African nations, part of that cooperation and engagement is sending a ship in to visit."
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JUN 2, 2009
Politics-Africa: Critics Target U.S. Military Command
Inter Press Service
Streamlining the image of the command is proving every bit as demanding as putting personnel and equipment in place, however. Controversy has surrounded AFRICOM on both sides of the Atlantic since the start of the initiative, and appears unlikely to fade any time soon.
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