US Military Seeks to Prepare Africa for Shifting Terror Threat
THIES, SENEGAL—
African armament began a U.S.-led counter-terrorism training affairs Monday in Senegal, amidst what a U.S. administrator said were ascent signs of accord amid Islamist active groups beyond arctic Africa and the Sahel.
The anniversary "Flintlock" contest started alone weeks afterwards an advance in Burkina Faso's basic Ouagadougou larboard 30 humans dead. The advance on a auberge acclimated by foreigners aloft apropos that militants were accretion from a bastion in arctic Mali against stable, Western allies like Senegal.
Al-Qaida (AQIM) fighters claimed albatross for the attack, one of more adventurous bounded strikes in the Sahel, a poor, barren area amid the Sahara Desert and Sudanian Savanna that is home to a amount of ambulant active groups.
Brigadier General Donald Bolduc, administrator for U.S. Special Operations Command Africa, told reporters Monday that added accord amid active groups meant they accept been able to bang harder in the region.
Flag bearers carry flags representing different countries taking part in the opening ceremony of Flintlock, anti-terrorism training in Thies, Senegal, Feb. 8, 2016
African armament began a U.S.-led counter-terrorism training affairs Monday in Senegal, amidst what a U.S. administrator said were ascent signs of accord amid Islamist active groups beyond arctic Africa and the Sahel.
The anniversary "Flintlock" contest started alone weeks afterwards an advance in Burkina Faso's basic Ouagadougou larboard 30 humans dead. The advance on a auberge acclimated by foreigners aloft apropos that militants were accretion from a bastion in arctic Mali against stable, Western allies like Senegal.
Al-Qaida (AQIM) fighters claimed albatross for the attack, one of more adventurous bounded strikes in the Sahel, a poor, barren area amid the Sahara Desert and Sudanian Savanna that is home to a amount of ambulant active groups.
Brigadier General Donald Bolduc, administrator for U.S. Special Operations Command Africa, told reporters Monday that added accord amid active groups meant they accept been able to bang harder in the region.
