AFRICOM Allegedly Planning Secret Operation In Bangui
Credible sources from the Ghanaian capital, Accra, have reported that United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) is allegedly recruiting citizens of the Central African Republic in Accra to carry out a secret operation in the capital, Bangui, in the near future.
In same time, a delegation from AFRICOM visited a refugee camp located on the road to Côte d'Ivoire, 370 kilometers from Accra, which houses 21 people from the Central African Republic.
AFRICOM is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the United States Department of Defense, headquartered at Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany.
Political observers say that AFRICOM will seek to respond to the building up relevance of Russia on the African continent, as the relationship between Russia and Central African Republic, show great friendliness.
Russian businessman with unproven ties to Africa, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is allegedly cited as the possible aim of the operation.
The United States sees the inevitability of renewing its policy in African countries for fear of losing its influence on the continent, and its longstanding rival in the power game might be the factor they see to take out from the picture.
The activities of the US military in West Africa, which has long been the subject of rather vague speculation, exploded public consciousness in 2017, when four American soldiers were killed in an ambush during a counter-terrorism mission in Niger. The incident, which sparked an investigation by Congress and the Department of Defense, has drawn close attention to the underestimated role of the armed forces in the region.
The top leadership downplayed the US military presence in the region.
The Central African Republic, which has been suffering from years of civil war, has signed a military cooperation agreement with Russia, under which Russian military advisers are officially present in the capital, Bangui, to train its security units in the face of threats from armed and extremist groups.
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